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Cisco Paid. The Worst Week in Cybersecurity History Just Got a Final Chapter.
Cisco has been removed from ShinyHunters' dark web leak site. The listing that threatened to dump 3 million Salesforce records, 300 private GitHub repositories, AI product source code, and FBI/IRS/NASA customer data — gone. As of this morning, every other victim is still listed. Cisco is not. In the ransomware world, removal from a leak site means one thing: the victim paid. Cisco has not confirmed payment. They won't. But the $57 billion company that sells firewalls, intrusi
Patrick Duggan
Apr 34 min read


Pi Day: The Snake Eats Its Tail
Author: Patrick Duggan (with Claude Code)
Patrick Duggan
Mar 145 min read
The Man Who Blocked the Epstein Files Twice Just Got Promoted to Run Homeland Security
Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) was named Secretary of Homeland Security today. He replaces Kristi Noem, who was fired after telling Congress that Trump...
Patrick Duggan
Mar 56 min read
We Hunted Lapsus$ on GitHub. Here's What We Actually Found.
Tags: threat-intelligence, lapsus, scattered-spider, github, mfa-fatigue, malware-analysis, ioc
Patrick Duggan
Mar 25 min read
How to Verify Claims Using the DugganUSA API
Reporter Primer #2 — A practical guide for journalists fact-checking Epstein-related claims against the government record.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 287 min read
"I Designed the DJT Business Comeback": What 1,104 DOJ Documents Reveal About Trump and Epstein
The DOJ removed a photo of Howard Lutnick from the Epstein files today. We already had it. We also have 1,103 other documents they'd rather you didn't search.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 278 min read
The Power of Cross-Indexing: How 37 Indexes Exposed What Single-Source Searches Can't
One name. Thirty-seven indexes. 10.9 million documents. The connections only appear when you search everything at once.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 277 min read
"I Designed the DJT Business Comeback": What 1,104 DOJ Documents Reveal About Trump and Epstein
The DOJ removed a photo of Howard Lutnick from the Epstein files today. We already had it. We also have 1,103 other documents they'd rather you didn't search.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 277 min read
The Treasury Secretary Who Bailed Out Epstein's Bankers
Steven Mnuchin scored 28/30 on our CARVER analysis. Not for what he did to anyone. For what he enabled.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 238 min read
The 91 Smoking Guns: Every Explosive Document in the Epstein Files, Ranked
We've spent three weeks indexing 364,000+ DOJ Epstein documents. We published seven deep dives — Trump, Clinton, Putin, Israel, MBS, Silicon Valley, and the...
Patrick Duggan
Feb 2219 min read
Water Cooler Talk at the Feet of the Owl
Water Cooler Talk at the Feet of the Owl
Patrick Duggan
Feb 188 min read
The Soffer Thread: 28 Offshore Entities, a Double Irish Blind, and Jeffrey Epstein's Cardiologist
The Soffer Thread: 28 Offshore Entities, a Double Irish Blind, and Jeffrey Epstein's Cardiologist
Patrick Duggan
Feb 188 min read
Tom Pritzker Had the CIA Director Over for Lunch. Then He Told Jeffrey Epstein.
Tom Pritzker Had the CIA Director Over for Lunch. Then He Told Jeffrey Epstein.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 175 min read
Jake Lang Returns to Minneapolis February 7: The Rap Sheet They Don't Want You to See
Jake Lang Returns to Minneapolis February 7: The Rap Sheet They Don't Want You to See
Patrick Duggan
Feb 45 min read
How to Search the Epstein Files: A Woody Allen Example
How to Search the Epstein Files: A Woody Allen Example
Patrick Duggan
Feb 33 min read
Supply Chain Showdown: Moltbot vs Notepad++ - Two Attacks, One Lesson
Supply Chain Showdown: Moltbot vs Notepad++ - Two Attacks, One Lesson
Patrick Duggan
Feb 26 min read
Epstein Files: Mysteries Verified and Questions Answered
Epstein Files: Mysteries Verified and Questions Answered
Patrick Duggan
Feb 16 min read
Epstein Files: Mysteries Verified and Questions Answered
We searched 44,886 documents for answers. Maxwell's 'G Max' alias is verified. The DVR failure is real. Some theories check out. Others don't.
Patrick Duggan
Feb 14 min read
The Epstein Files: Connecting the Dots
The Epstein Files: Connecting the Dots
Patrick Duggan
Jan 305 min read
The Epstein Files: The Al Capone Approach - Simple Crimes That Stick
Stamp 1: SEC Dropped Apollo Investigation After White House Meeting
Patrick Duggan
Jan 304 min read
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