Threat Intelligence
In-depth guides and analysis on threat intelligence from the Safeguard engineering team.
65 articles
Threat Intelligence Feeds for Supply Chain Security
Supply chain threat intelligence goes beyond CVE databases. Specialized feeds track malicious packages, compromised maintainers, and emerging attack techniques targeting the software supply chain.
DPRK IT Worker Supply Chain Insider Threat
DPRK operatives have placed themselves inside Western companies as remote developers. Here is how that pattern functions as a supply chain threat and how to detect it.
Black Basta Ransomware Leak Lessons Learned
The Black Basta chat leak gave defenders a rare inside view of how a ransomware program operates. Here are the durable engineering lessons to take from it.
BianLian's Pivot: From Ransomware Encryption to Pure Data Extortion
BianLian abandoned encryption entirely in favor of data theft and extortion. This shift reveals where ransomware economics are heading — and why traditional defenses are lagging behind.
Operation Cronos: How Law Enforcement Dismantled LockBit Ransomware
A coordinated international operation seized LockBit's infrastructure, arrested affiliates, and obtained decryption keys. But did it actually stop the world's most prolific ransomware gang?
LockBit Takedown: What Came After
Operation Cronos disrupted LockBit's infrastructure but not the underlying affiliate economy. Here is what actually changed and what defenders should take from it into 2026.
Midnight Blizzard Breaches Microsoft: What the Exchange Online Attack Means for Everyone
Russian state actors compromised Microsoft executive email accounts through a password spray attack on a legacy test tenant. The breach exposed how identity misconfigurations cascade.
FIN7 Supply Chain Social Engineering (2024)
FIN7 built tooling that made its social engineering feel like a SaaS product. Here is how its 2024 tradecraft blended malvertising, fake tools, and credential theft into a supply chain attack.
Gamaredon Ukraine Targeting Supply Chain 2025
Gamaredon's 2025 operations against Ukraine have leaned harder into software and MSP supply chain pivots. Here is the tradecraft defenders need to recognize.
Lazarus Group: 3CX and Software Builds
Lazarus turned a developer's personal machine into a corporate build-system compromise. Here is how that cascade actually worked and what it teaches about build-system trust.
RansomHub Ransomware and EDR Bypass (2024)
RansomHub absorbed affiliates displaced by BlackCat and ran one of the most prolific extortion operations of 2024. Here is what made its tradecraft effective and how to counter it.
Salt Typhoon Telecom Supply Chain Campaign 2024
Salt Typhoon's 2024 intrusions into U.S. telecoms reframed supply chain risk as a routing and lawful-intercept problem. Here is what the campaign looked like from a defender's seat.
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