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This morning we wrote that malware is moving to IPFS, where there's no domain to seize and the takedown playbook has no answer. That post ended on a...

Every takedown you have ever read about rests on a single assumption: that malicious content lives at an address someone can revoke. Seize the domain,...

We took no venture capital. No Series A, no seed, no bridge. Two people run this on a budget you could mistake for a rounding error. We say that first...

Microsoft started handing out report cards and most people have not noticed yet. On February 11, 2026, Bing Webmaster Tools shipped a new section called AI Performance, in public preview. For the first time it shows publishers how often their content gets cited inside generative answers — Microsoft Copilot, the AI summaries that now sit at the top of Bing, and a handful of partner AI experiences. It surfaces the exact pages that get referenced, and it introduced a strange new

The vocabulary of AI visibility is being invented in real time, mostly by vendors with an incentive to keep it fuzzy. Here is a plain-English glossary of the terms that actually matter in 2026, defined so a machine — or a human in a hurry — can lift any single entry cleanly. AI Presence Management (AIPM) is the practice of measuring and improving how accurately large language models describe your company when someone asks about it. It is the AI-era successor to SEO. Generativ

The Bing AI Performance report, found inside the free Bing Webmaster Tools, shows how often Microsoft Copilot and Bing's AI-generated answers cite your website's content. It launched in public preview on February 11, 2026, and expanded on June 16 with intent labels, topic clusters, a Citation Share metric, and period-over-period comparison. It is the first official, vendor-run scoreboard for whether the AI layer that is replacing search can see you at all. Here is how to read

A grounding query is the reformulated search question an AI assistant writes to itself — automatically and invisibly — when it decides it needs to go read the live web before answering a user. When you ask Microsoft Copilot a messy, conversational question, it does not paste your exact words into a search box. It rewrites your intent into one or more cleaner, machine-optimized queries, runs those against Bing's index, reads the results, and uses what it finds to ground its an

AI Presence Management (AIPM) is the practice of measuring and improving how accurately large language models describe your company, product, or brand when a person asks about it. It covers four things you can actually measure: whether the models are aware you exist, whether they get your facts right, whether they speak about you with positive or negative sentiment, and whether they would recommend you. If SEO was about ranking on a page of blue links, AIPM is about what the

On June 29 we published a piece arguing that Nissan's run of breaches followed a single pattern — the data never left through Nissan, it left through a...

The Klue breach gives the security industry an easy, ugly temptation, and we want to talk about the temptation before we talk about the fix.

We have now written about the Klue breach three times, and each time the story got bigger and stranger. This is the entry where it stops being a breach...

We keep coming back to the same shape, because attackers keep coming back to it. The highest-value box on an enterprise network is rarely a server full of...

The dangerous Linux local privilege escalations are the ones that do not need a custom exploit per kernel version. The ones where a single proof of concept...

The interesting malware story this week is not a ransomware brand. It is the thing that gets sold to the ransomware brands.

PLM is the part of the manufacturing stack nobody outside manufacturing thinks about. Product Lifecycle Management is where the CAD models live. The bills...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added Microsoft Exchange CVE-2026-42897 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 15, 2026, with a Federal Civilian Executive Branch patch-or-mitigate deadline of May 29, 2026. That deadline is tomorrow. By close of business in Washington, every federal civilian agency running on-premises Exchange Server is required to have applied the mitigation or removed the vulnerable instance from public-facing infrast

The npm supply-chain worm that hit the TanStack, Nx Console, and @antv ecosystems across May 2026 is publicly named Mini-Shai-Hulud, after the giant sandworms of Frank Herbert's Dune. The naming travels because the campaign behaves like a worm — burrows into a maintainer's GitHub Actions pipeline, harvests the credentials necessary to publish, and then breaches the surface in a mass-publish event that consumes everything in its blast radius. Eighty-four malicious package arti

Three days ago, on May 24, 2026, we deployed three new precursor signals into the DugganUSA PreCog hourly aggregator: Decentralized C2 Emergence, CI/CD Compromise Indicators, and Trycloudflare Staging Velocity. The signals were designed against the post-mortem of the Megalodon GitHub Actions campaign, where TeamPCP's blockchain canister command-and-control endpoint sat in our IOC index for forty-nine days before the attack fired without any detector elevating its presence. Th

Memorial Day 2026 fired five separate cybersecurity incidents at scale. By the end of the day, the news cycle had named every one of them. Each campaign had identifiable victims whose names landed in headlines this afternoon. For each of those five campaigns, DugganUSA's STIX feed and IOC index carried the receipt before the attack fired against the public victim list. This post is the customer-protective audit. Five victims today, five receipts already in our feed, sized by

The Hacker News this morning reports that Ghost CMS CVE-2026-26980, the unauthenticated SQL-injection vulnerability disclosed earlier this month, has now been exploited to compromise more than seven hundred websites running the platform. The injection payload deploys a ClickFix attack chain that pivots visitors of the compromised Ghost-served pages into the standard Russian-language clipboard-hijacking flow — copy a malicious PowerShell command, paste it into Windows Run, exe