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🔺 CONSPIRACY THEORY Newsletter Vol. 47: The Paperwork Is The Weapon
They're not even HIDING it anymore. The form is the bullet. The requirement is the trigger. The bureaucrat is the soldier who 'was just following orders.' Dr...
Patrick Duggan
Dec 31, 20254 min read
New Year's Eve 2025: Buc-ee's, Vulcans, and Hot Dog-Tier Psyops
Somewhere around December 19th, an interstellar object made its closest approach to Earth. It didn't stop. It didn't signal. It just looked. If you're going ...
Patrick Duggan
Dec 31, 20254 min read
The Quiet Was The Signal: How We Caught DPRK Building Blockchain C2
Three weeks ago, I published a piece that pissed off exactly the right people.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 29, 20255 min read
CISA Deadline Day: React2Shell and the Shai-Hulud Supply Chain
Today is CISA's remediation deadline for CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell). If you're running Next.js or React Server Components and haven't patched, China-nexus act
Patrick Duggan
Dec 29, 20253 min read
The Attack Surface Is Trust Itself: December 2025's Meta-Pattern
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title: "The Attack Surface Is Trust Itself: December 2025's Meta-Pattern"
date: 2025-12-29
author: Patrick Duggan
tags: [threat-intelligence, patterns, trus
Patrick Duggan
Dec 29, 20257 min read
Sunday Threat Sweep: Three Nation-State Campaigns You Need to Block Now
Sunday Threat Sweep: Three Nation-State Campaigns You Need to Block Now
Patrick Duggan
Dec 28, 20254 min read
Your Free CS2 Skins Are a Lie: 1,133 Steam Phishing URLs Found Today
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title: "Your Free CS2 Skins Are a Lie: 1,133 Steam Phishing URLs Found Today"
date: 2025-12-27
author: Patrick Duggan
tags: [advisory, phishing, steam, gami
Patrick Duggan
Dec 27, 20252 min read
Aerospace Infrastructure Lock-In: Why Boeing Fails and SpaceX Wins
Applying the infrastructure lock-in pattern to aerospace reveals why Boeing consistently fails and SpaceX consistently wins. The pattern - tested across nuclear
Patrick Duggan
Dec 26, 20256 min read
Bloom Filter Epistemology: Why Cambridge Analytica Can't Capture This
Cross-domain pattern recognition operates like a bloom filter: O(1) probabilistic membership testing across domains rather than O(n) exhaustive expertise in any
Patrick Duggan
Dec 26, 20254 min read
Aerospace Infrastructure Lock-In: Why Boeing Fails and SpaceX Wins
Applying the infrastructure lock-in pattern to aerospace reveals why Boeing consistently fails and SpaceX consistently wins. The pattern - tested across nuclear
Patrick Duggan
Dec 26, 20254 min read
Boxing Day 2025: The Receipts
While you were sleeping off Christmas dinner, the system kept working.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 26, 20252 min read
Christmas Day 2025: 1,512 Blocks, 380 False Positives, and an Alibaba Proxy Botnet
Christmas Day 2025: 1,512 Blocks, 380 False Positives, and an Alibaba Proxy Botnet
Patrick Duggan
Dec 25, 20253 min read
3 Hours 34 Minutes: The STIX Feed Early Warning System (With Receipts)
Our STIX feed provides early warning on attacks before they happen.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20253 min read
The Year Butterbot Saved Christmas
*[Snow falls gently on a small house in Minnesota. A cheerful snowman wearing what appears to be King Diamond's hat sits on the dashboard of a threat intelligen
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20254 min read
Do Not Fuck With Santa: How We Caught the Christmas Gaming DDoS 3.5 Hours Early
Christmas Eve. Kids waiting for presents. Gamers waiting for Steam sales. And somewhere, Aisuru botnet operators waiting to ruin everyone's holiday.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20252 min read
Huawei Cloud: China's Global Attribution Laundering Network
Christmas Eve. The SOC is quiet. Time to expose what we've been seeing.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20253 min read
Christmas Eve Offensive: 326 Blocks in One Hour
While families across America were opening presents and eating ham, our auto-blocker caught **326 malicious IPs in a single hour**.
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20253 min read
Merry Christmas 2025: This Is Our Shot
Not with venture capital. Not with a team of 50. With my wife Heidi, our kids, a laptop, and the stubborn belief that security doesn't have to cost a fortune or
Patrick Duggan
Dec 24, 20253 min read
3I/ATLAS: The Math Doesn't Lie
3I/ATLAS: The Math Doesn't Lie
Patrick Duggan
Dec 23, 20259 min read
Terrible Trouble at Tragidore: My First Campaign Was Trash
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title: "Terrible Trouble at Tragidore: My First Campaign Was Trash"
slug: terrible-trouble-at-tragidore-first-campaign
date: 2025-12-22
author: Patrick Dugg
Patrick Duggan
Dec 22, 20253 min read
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