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Research DeskLatest Research: October 15, 2026News Feed Refresh: October 26, 2026Radar Refresh: October 26, 202664 research entries

Independent Research Desk

Phishing Tradecraft · Infrastructure · Detection Engineering

The research desk for phishing tradecraft.

PhishPond researches how modern phishing operations are built, run, and detected — campaign evolution, adversary infrastructure, phishing kits, OAuth and device-code abuse, AiTM frameworks, and the detection and validation workflows that catch them.

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Research Desk

On the desk this week

  • 10featured investigations
  • 9research notes in the archive
  • 5intel streams for security teams

A working research desk: fast scans for fresh intel, project radar, trend tracking, and deeper tradecraft and detection analysis.

Recurring Intel

What to track this week

Intel brief
Campaign SignalsFast campaign and supplier-risk intelTradecraft WatchActor-informed methods to emulate and detectDetection & ValidationControls, telemetry, and validation workflowsProject RadarGitHub tooling worth a research scan

Attack-Side Tradecraft

Attack Tradecraft

Campaign tradecraft, lure mechanics, adversary infrastructure, identity pressure, and operator workflows worth modeling.

12 attack-side reads

Detection Engineering

Detection & Validation

Detection engineering, telemetry analysis, reporting workflows, and validation that security teams can operationalize.

34 detection reads

APT Tradecraft

Methods Watch

Emerging procedures, tooling, initial-access patterns, and cross-team tradecraft from real-world actor reporting.

18 tradecraft reads

GitHub Trends

Project Radar

20 live
  • Blue team tool0xDanielLopez/TweetFeedRepo · 694 stars
  • Blue team toolphishdestroy/destroylistHTML · 2,092 stars
  • Blue team toolsjhgvr/oisdRepo · 272 stars
Blue TeamDefense Pattern

Lead Research

Blue TeamFeaturedDetection & ValidationOct 6, 2026

The Passkey Lure Is Not About Passkeys

Enrollment urgency is the oldest helpdesk pretext wearing a new word. The objective is still a session token, and the tell is still Graph.

Microsoft tracked Storm-3121 and Storm-3032 running passkey-themed helpdesk calls since May 2026. The passkey narrative is a pretext that routes victims into AiTM and device-code flows — and the detection lives in what happens after the token lands, not in the lure.

Read more:Microsoft Security BlogBleepingComputer

By PhishPond Desk · 11 min read

On the Desk

Latest Research

  • The Phish Ends. The Connection Doesn’t.
  • ClickFix Is Engineering Its Way Out of the Run Dialog
  • Two RMM Agents Are Not Redundancy, They Are Persistence
  • EvilTokens Goes Down: What a PhaaS Takedown Actually Buys You
  • The Passkey Lure Is Not About Passkeys
  • Passkeys Move From Security Project to Front-Line Phishing Control

Live Collection

Outside Intel Watch

Articles & Analysis

5 tracked
  • Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection

    BleepingComputerOct 23, 2026News

    Read more:BleepingComputer

  • Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks

    Microsoft Security BlogOct 23, 2026Vendor Research

    Read more:Microsoft Security Blog

  • Cyber Insurance's New Reality: Underwriting Isn't Enough

    Dark ReadingOct 23, 2026News

    Read more:Dark Reading

  • Resident Evil maker Capcom warns of phishing after 11.7 million records exposed

    Malwarebytes LabsOct 23, 2026Vendor Research

    Read more:Malwarebytes Labs

  • Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response

    BleepingComputerOct 22, 2026News

    Read more:BleepingComputer

GitHub Project Radar

5 tracked
  • Blue team tool0xDanielLopez/TweetFeed

    694 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    TweetFeed collects Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) shared by the infosec community at Twitter. Here you will find malicious URLs, domains, IPs, and SHA256/MD5 hashes. 694 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #blueteam#malware#malware-detection#malware-research

  • Blue team toolphishdestroy/destroylist

    HTML2.1K starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    Real-time phishing & scam domain blocklist - 205k+ curated threats, 1M+ community, free API, multiple formats Primary language: HTML. 2,092 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #anti-phishing#blacklist#blocklist#crypto-scam

  • Blue team toolsjhgvr/oisd

    272 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    oisd blocklist 272 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #adblocking#adblocking-dns#adblocking-list#adblocklist

  • Blue team toolZaczero/pihole-phishtank

    Shell13 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    🐟 PhishTank Blocklist for Pi-hole Primary language: Shell. 13 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #blocklist#hosts#phishing#pihole

  • Blue team toolCriticalPathSecurity/Zeek-Intelligence-Feeds

    Zeek405 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    Zeek-Formatted Threat Intelligence Feeds Primary language: Zeek. 405 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #malware#phishing#threat-intelligence#threatintel

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Specific campaigns, actor activity, and the lures behind them.

Tradecraft Labs

How techniques work end-to-end — walkthroughs and operator workflows.

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Adversary infrastructure: kits, AiTM, redirectors, and sending abuse.

Detection & Validation

Detection engineering, telemetry, validation, and response.

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Longer research notes, measurement, and periodic briefs.

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Field Analysis

Dual UseTradecraft LabsOct 6, 202612 min read

ClickFix Is Engineering Its Way Out of the Run Dialog

The Windows Run box truncates at roughly 260 characters, and that limit has shaped ClickFix tradecraft since it appeared. Three developments this quarter — browser cache smuggling, Google Sheets C2, and blockchain-hosted payloads — are all solutions to the same constraint.

Read more:Cisco Talos IntelligenceThe Hacker News

By PhishPond Desk

  • #ClickFix
  • #Cache Smuggling
  • #Living Off Trusted Sites

Field Analysis

Dual UseInfrastructure IntelligenceOct 6, 202610 min read

EvilTokens Goes Down: What a PhaaS Takedown Actually Buys You

Microsoft's DCU disrupted EvilTokens on September 22, 2026 — a $1,500 device-code phishing platform tied to 12,000 compromised inboxes across 10,000 organisations. The operator is gone. The flow it abused is unchanged, and the serverless infrastructure pattern is the part that outlives the brand.

Read more:Microsoft Security BlogThe Hacker News

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Phishing-as-a-Service
  • #Device Code Phishing
  • #EvilTokens

Field Analysis

Red TeamInfrastructure IntelligenceJul 19, 202612 min read

The 2024–2026 AitM Phishing-as-a-Service Market: Tycoon, EvilProxy, Mamba, Greatness

Reverse-proxy phishing kits commoditized session-token theft over the last two years. The kit market now resembles SaaS, and that has implications for how defenders track operators.

Read more:Microsoft Threat IntelligenceSekoia

By PhishPond Desk

  • #AitM
  • #Threat Intelligence
  • #Phishing Kits

Field Analysis

Dual UseDetection & ValidationJul 19, 202610 min read

ClickFix Grows a Backend: API-Served Payloads and the Windows Terminal Pivot

Analysis of roughly 3,000 live ClickFix payloads shows the clipboard command is now served by a backend that hands every visitor a freshly scrambled variant. The delivery moved server-side, and so did the detection problem.

Read more:The Hacker NewsSplunk Security Content

By PhishPond Desk

  • #ClickFix
  • #Detection Engineering
  • #Endpoint

Field Analysis

Dual UseTradecraft LabsJun 7, 20268 min read

The Procedure Is the Threat: Why an Intrusion's Shape Outlives Its Toolkit

Runtimes, platforms, and brands rotate every quarter. The six handoffs that move a victim from manufactured urgency to durable persistence have barely changed in five years, and they are what defenders can actually build for.

Read more:FBI IC3Microsoft Security Blog

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Tradecraft Labs
  • #Methodology
  • #Initial Access

Field Analysis

Dual UseCampaign AnalysisMay 31, 20266 min read

Ghost CMS ClickFix Wave Turns Trusted Sites Into Paste-and-Run Staging

A reported exploitation wave against Ghost CMS pushed malicious JavaScript onto more than 700 sites, sending visitors into fake verification flows that used ClickFix-style paste-and-run instructions.

Read more:The Hacker NewsMalwarebytes Labs

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Campaign Analysis
  • #ClickFix
  • #Web Compromise

Field Analysis

Dual UseCampaign AnalysisMay 20, 202610 min read

Breaking Down the Code of Conduct Campaign: PDF Lures, CAPTCHA Gates, and AiTM Token Theft

Microsoft detailed an April 2026 campaign that wrapped credential theft in HR disciplinary language, used a CAPTCHA as an anti-analysis gate, and stole tokens through an adversary-in-the-middle proxy.

Read more:Microsoft Security BlogThe Hacker News

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Campaign Analysis
  • #AiTM
  • #Token Theft

Field Analysis

Blue TeamCampaign AnalysisMay 6, 20268 min read

Compliance Lures Are Becoming Multi-Stage AiTM Token Traps

Recent code-of-conduct phishing campaigns show how attackers blend HR pressure, PDF staging, CAPTCHA gates, and AiTM flows to steal session tokens.

Read more:Microsoft Security BlogMicrosoft Security Blog

By PhishPond Desk

  • #AiTM
  • #Credential Theft
  • #CAPTCHA

Field Analysis

Blue TeamCampaign AnalysisMay 5, 202613 min read

Storm-1747 and the Tycoon 2FA Operator Class: A Defender Brief

Storm-1747 sells Tycoon 2FA - one of the most prolific reverse-proxy phishing kits in current circulation. This brief is what a defender team needs to know about the operator class.

Read more:Microsoft Threat IntelligenceSekoia

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Storm-1747
  • #Tycoon 2FA
  • #AitM

Radar Shortcuts

  • All GitHub radar projects
  • Red team reads
  • Blue team reads

Trending Topics

  • #AiTM
  • #Device Code
  • #OAuth Abuse
  • #ClickFix
  • #Session Hijacking
  • #Detection Engineering

Latest News

  • Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection

    BleepingComputerOct 23, 2026

  • Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks

    Microsoft Security BlogOct 23, 2026

  • Cyber Insurance's New Reality: Underwriting Isn't Enough

    Dark ReadingOct 23, 2026

  • Resident Evil maker Capcom warns of phishing after 11.7 million records exposed

    Malwarebytes LabsOct 23, 2026

Research Standards

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  • Source links are surfaced with each entry.
  • Authorized research only — no turn-key abuse or live-target guidance.

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