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Research 3 min read

Fake Data Breach Claims: Why Scam-Style Extortion Is Surging in 2026

Scam-style extortion is rising: attackers post fake data breach claims on leak sites with no real intrusion. Here's how the bluff works and how to verify before you panic.

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Research 3 min read

Click to Pray Exposes 700k Users: Inside a Textbook IDOR Failure

The Vatican's Click to Pray app leaked the personal data of 700,000 users for over six months through a basic IDOR flaw. Here's how sequential user IDs and zero auth checks did the damage.

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Research 6 min read

A Hard Lesson in Randomness: Understanding the Coldcard Entropy Incident

A firmware bug silently weakened seed generation on Coldcard hardware wallets, letting an attacker recreate and drain vulnerable wallets at scale. Here's how the entropy failure worked.

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Gambling 3 min read

Multi-Accounting Detection: Stopping Gnoming and Chip-Dumping

How multi-accounting detection works in iGaming and Gambling, why it matters beyond the financial hit, and how gnoming and chip-dumping schemes actually get caught.

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Gaming 3 min read

Gaming Fraud Prevention: How It Differs From iGaming Across Platforms

Gaming fraud prevention goes beyond iGaming: in-game currency abuse, account trading, and esports match-fixing all need a different detection approach. Here's how they compare.

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Gaming 5 min read

The Complete Guide to iGaming Fraud Prevention Solutions for 2026

Everything you need to know about iGaming fraud prevention solutions: what iGaming fraud looks like, what makes a solution effective, and how operators implement one without disrupting play.

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Reports 1 min read

The Anatomy of Brand Attacks in the First Half of 2026

Seven shifts in phishing and brand impersonation tracked in real time across the first half of 2026, benchmarked against the industry's leading threat research.

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Cybersecurity 4 min read

Executive Monitoring: Why It's Now Business-Critical

Why executive monitoring has become essential as attackers increasingly target leadership identities through impersonation, deepfakes, and social engineering.

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Cybersecurity 7 min read

DMCA Takedown Guide: What It Is & How to File One

What the DMCA protects, how the takedown process works, the most common infringement scenarios, and how to file a notice that actually gets action.

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