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Threat Intelligence

The Threat Actor Is a Fiction: Why Attribution's Core Unit Is Breaking

M-Trends 2026 shows the median time between initial access and downstream handoff dropped to 22 seconds. That number is not primarily a detection challenge. It is an epistemological one. The 'threat actor' as an analytical unit is becoming structurally incoherent, and attribution methodology has not caught up.

7 min read
Cyber Strategy

Are Hacktivists Going Out of Business? Or Just Out of Style

Infosecurity Magazine ·

Hacktivism hasn't disappeared; it has been absorbed into the cybercrime economy and repurposed as cover for state-sponsored operations, forcing defenders to rethink how they assess ideologically motivated threats.

4 min read