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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.

Latest researchGet the intel brief

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 toolCriticalPathSecurity/Zeek-Intelligence-FeedsZeek · 406 stars
  • Blue team tool0xDanielLopez/TweetFeedRepo · 694 stars
  • Blue team toolPranith-Jain/dfir-threat-intel-platformTypeScript · 5 stars

New Today

Fresh intel since the last refresh

2 new articles, 3 new projects

Articles

  • uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026

  • Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026

Projects

  • Needs classification reviewGirinadh007/PhishGuard

    JavaScript8 stars

  • Blue team toolphishdestroy/medium-archive-phishdestroy

    HTML29 stars

  • Needs classification reviewhagezi/dns-servers

    Python620 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
  • uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026News

    Read more:The Hacker News

  • Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026News

    Read more:The Hacker News

  • 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

GitHub Project Radar

5 tracked
  • Blue team toolCriticalPathSecurity/Zeek-Intelligence-Feeds

    Zeek406 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    Zeek-Formatted Threat Intelligence Feeds Primary language: Zeek. 406 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #malware#phishing#threat-intelligence#threatintel

  • 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 toolPranith-Jain/dfir-threat-intel-platform

    TypeScript5 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    A 135+ tool DFIR toolkit, a live self-updating threat-intel platform, and a 332-tool MCP server — on one Cloudflare Workers deploy. MIT licensed. Portfolio: pranithjain.qzz.io Primary language: TypeScript. 5 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #blue-team#cloudflare-workers#cti#detection-engineering

  • 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. 2,091 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

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

  • Dual-use projectcaiovicentino/jev-risk-check-provider

    TypeScript12 starspushed Oct 26, 2026

    x402 risk-check provider: signed pre-payment verdicts — OFAC, phishing feeds, transaction simulation, drainer-kit code, and our own EIP-7702 kit watch (poisoners, sweepers). $0.001 per check with prepaid credits; per call via x402 from $0.0035. Primary language: TypeScript. 12 stars.

    Open project:GitHub

    #ai-agents#attestation#base#cloudflare-workers

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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.

Infrastructure Intelligence

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

Detection & Validation

Detection engineering, telemetry, validation, and response.

Research Reports

Longer research notes, measurement, and periodic briefs.

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Search Results for "Privilege Escalation"

Field Analysis

Blue TeamDetection & ValidationOct 6, 202611 min read

Passkeys Move From Security Project to Front-Line Phishing Control

Revised October 2026. Our April assessment held that passkey fallback and recovery workflows would become attacker targets. Six months of research confirmed it and added something we did not anticipate: attacks against synced passkey key material itself.

Read more:Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks)BleepingComputer

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Passkeys
  • #MFA
  • #Identity

Field Analysis

Blue TeamResearch ReportsMay 16, 20269 min read

Recent Linux LPEs Turn Local Footholds Into Infrastructure Control

Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and ssh-keysign-pwn show why local Linux privilege escalation still belongs in phishing and infrastructure-defense planning.

Read more:CERT-EUDirty Frag

By PhishPond Desk

  • #Linux
  • #Privilege Escalation
  • #Infrastructure

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

  • uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026

  • Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

    The Hacker NewsOct 26, 2026

  • 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

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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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