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Gh0stNet Intrusion Lab

In late May 2026, Kevin Briggs, an analyst at the Chicago investment firm Vireo Financial Group, attended the FinServ Innovation Summit and picked up a branded giveaway at the "DataVault Analytics" booth: a small USB flash drive along with some stickersOne evening at home he plugged it into his personal PC to explore what was on it, he double-clicked what looked like a spreadsheet on the drive. A window flickered and vanished; nothing else seemed to happen, so he thought no more of it. In the background, the disguised launcher had quietly deployed a remote-access trojan that took root on...

Threat Hunting Endpoint Forensics

hard

Jul 13, 2026

Tactics

Initial Access Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Defense Evasion Credential Access Lateral Movement Collection Command and Control Exfiltration

Tools

pe-sieve Wireshark Registry Explorer FLOSS/Strings Splunk CyberChef Ghidra CFF Explorer FTK Imager PECmd Registry Explorer/RECmd IDA