›Black Basta affiliates pivoting to Microsoft Teams for initial access.›Incident Report: Help desk impersonation leads to full compromise in 12 minutes.›M365 Identity: 130,000 compromised devices identified in latest password spraying botnet.›Black Basta affiliates pivoting to Microsoft Teams for initial access.›Incident Report: Help desk impersonation leads to full compromise in 12 minutes.›M365 Identity: 130,000 compromised devices identified in latest password spraying botnet.
VOL.01 · ISSUE №1— a security engineer's obsession with the why and the how —TUE · 05 MAY 2026
INCIDENT RESPONSE
The 12-Minute Help Desk: Tracking the SNOW Suite
Former Black Basta affiliates built a framework to automate social engineering at scale. This is what it looks like when it runs.
One thing I've been pulling apart — an incident, a malware family, a CTI thread that kept me up. Written from the engineering layer down. No vendor copy. No AI slop. No hot takes from people who read the same three reports you did.
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