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Dark Web Monitoring Is a Band-Aid. Here's What Actually Stops the Bleeding.
Dark web monitoring tells you your data was stolen, sometimes months after the fact. It won't undo the damage. A harder look at what these services actually catch, what slips past them, and why reducing your exposure surface matters more than watching it get picked apart.
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Phishing Investigation from First Email to Takedown: A Researcher's Operational Playbook
A pixel-perfect invoice notification, a domain registered forty-eight hours ago, and a credential-harvesting page backed by a thirty-dollar kit from Telegram. Here's how a researcher traces the chain without burning their own identity.
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Synthetic Identities in Security Work: Practical Playbooks for Pen Testers, Red Teams, and Threat Analysts
Typing 'test test' into a registration form trips fraud filters before the first page loads. Using real personal data creates a liability trail no compliance officer wants to see. Synthetic identities are the third option, and the only clean one.
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Social Engineering Assessments Need Realistic Personas. Here Is How to Build Them.
A red-team phishing test with 'John Smith from IT' fools nobody. Believable social engineering assessments demand personas that survive two follow-up questions, and synthetic identities provide the scaffolding.
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Scambaiting with Synthetic Identities: How Researchers Burn Scammers' Time
Scammers run on volume. Every minute spent chasing a synthetic persona is a minute stolen from someone who might have actually paid. The tools, techniques, and community behind organised scambaiting.
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