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https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/category/counter-adversary-operations/
Falcon Counter Adversary Operations / Falcon Intelligence threat reporting. URL CORRECTED 2026-05-08: legacy /blog/category/threat-intel-research/ now 301-redirects to /en-us/blog/category.counter-adversary-operations/, using the redirected URL avoids an unnecessary hop. 2026-05-08 audit: WebFetch returned 5 dated posts latest 2026-05-06 on OverWatch, CORDIAL/SNARKY SPIDER. | 2026-06-20 full audit (v2.62): live=Y, drill=Y. FETCH → webfetch https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/category/counter-adversary-operations/ (listing, dates inline) then webfetch each /en-us/blog/<slug>/ article. AVOID: Do NOT use /en-us/blog/category/counter-adversary-operations/, that variant 404s. The stored /blog/category/... URL is the correct listing; individual article URLs DO carry the /en-us/ prefix.. | 2026-07-05 admiralty audit: B, vendor threat-intel lab, original adversary research from own telemetry; live and drillable, no change (active). | 2026-10-04: `extract` returns the crawl date as date: on every post; do not trust it. Use WebFetch on the Counter Adversary Operations listing for the displayed dates. | 2026-10-22 (S3): `extract` on posts works but can return the crawl date instead of the publication date; WebFetch of the listing reads only the first 100,000 characters. | 2026-10-29 (S3): Recipe fix: the working dated discovery path is `python3 tools/fetch_source.py feed https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/feed 20` (10 dated items, Oct 8 to Oct 28). The record URL .../blog/category/counter-adversary-operations/ returns 404 to WebFetch; the listing that extract reads is https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/category.counter-adversary-operations/ and carries no dates, and extract of a post returns t
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Citation days per ISO week (23 weeks of coverage span, total 10).
- VAPOR PANDA: CrowdStrike reports a China-nexus actor running the ARTEX agent framework against more than 200 organisations from 17 October, among them foreign ministries in Europe and a Greek government entity, and deploying the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor2026-10-30
- ARTEX: Microsoft reports Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, running an open-source multi-agent LLM penetration-testing framework against hundreds of organizations, with privileged cloud access in under three hours in some cases, and Expel sees the same infrastructure abuse Okta self-service registration2026-10-22
- CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619, PHP (PHP2Shell): two unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws in the runtime, fixed on 2026-10-21 in 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, with attack traffic already observed and no upstream release for 8.1 and older (CVSS 4.0 9.2)2026-10-21
- PhantomRaven: CrowdStrike attributes an LLM-generated npm infostealer, hidden from registry scanners via a remote-URL dependency trick, to a self-described bug-bounty hunter2026-09-17
- CrowdStrike catalogues 21 working command-obfuscation techniques inside VMware ESXi's BusyBox ash shell, and shell logs record the command before expansion, so the logged string is not what ran2026-08-10
- CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report: 88% of public-PoC exploitation landed inside 48 hours, and npm accounted for 87% of software-registry threats2026-08-04
- VMSA-2026-0006, VMware vCenter: unauthenticated Directory Service auth bypass and Syslog traversal RCE (both CVSS 9.8), plus a VMXNET3 guest-to-host escape2026-07-30
- SANDWORM_MODE, an npm supply-chain worm that 'lives off the AI toolchain', poisoning MCP servers in AI coding assistants to steal developer credentials2026-07-23
- CrowdStrike 2026 Technology Threat Landscape Report: technology is now the most-targeted sector2026-06-11
- CrowdStrike, Google and Shadowserver simultaneously sever all four C2 channels of the GlassWorm developer-targeting botnet (not to be confused with the Nx Console / TanStack GitHub-publish chain in § 5), Russia-attributed, active since early 20252026-05-28