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Stopping the tank: centre of gravity analysis for cyber threat prioritisation
Why the most powerful system is rarely the one everything depends on, and a three-question method for finding the one that is. Yury Sergeev and Alex Gould – Based on our talk at the Australian Cyber Conference (CyberCon) Melbourne 2026. You have probably sat in this meeting. The budget is finite, every system owner is…
The cyber threat intelligence assumptions adversary AI is already breaking
We went looking for malware that thinks for itself. The cases with real victims pointed somewhere else: the AI tools developers already use. Yury Sergeev and Alex Gould – Based on our talk at the Australian Cyber Conference (CyberCon) Melbourne 2026. When we proposed this talk, the thing that worried us was malware that rewrites…
FTP Banner Dead Drops: A Hunter’s Field Guide to E4del and PINHOLE
THREAT INTELLIGENCE REPORT Prepared by Essa Amous, CTO, RST Cloud Reporting date 10 September 2026 Introduction This article builds on the original research published by SOCRadar, which identified a Windows malware delivery campaign using FTP server banners as dead-drop resolvers to distribute the E4del and PINHOLE remote access trojans.Rather than embedding a fixed payload location…
