there's one question that separates the work you should hand to AI without guilt from the work you should never give up. most people are answering it wrong every day, without knowing it was asked. which side are you on? you probably can't tell yet: dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/keep-the-t...

Keep the Tension That Builds You

In the age of AI, the work worth keeping is the work that lets you catch the machine when it's wrong.

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the vercel breach started with a stolen oauth token from a vendor's laptop. the attacker never phished anyone. your environment has the same pattern. @thorcollective.bsky.social wrote four hunts to find it 👇 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/hunting-th... #thorcollective #threathunting #cybersecurity

Hunting the Infostealer-to-SaaS Pipeline: When Third-Party Trust Becomes Lateral Movement

Your vendors have OAuth tokens to your environment. Do you know who else does?

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Threat hunting falls apart when your “docs” live in Slack threads. Part 2 of the @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch Agentic Threat Hunting series covers the first step to scaling: put your hunts in a GitHub repo and give your AI bestie memory. dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/agentic-th...

We at @thorcollective.bsky.social are waking you up before September ends, because a new Ask-a-Thrunt3r episode just dropped with: 2K subscriber milestone 🎉 15 baseline examples The great data vs. data debate Plus: Is Git the future of hunting collab? 🎧: dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/ask-a-thru...

Ask-a-Thrunt3r: September 2025 Recap 🐏

Mainly ramblings. And maybe some wisdom.

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You can’t find weird if you don’t know normal. @thorcollective.bsky.social just dropped 10 baseline hunts you can shine in the dark parts of your env and magnify the adversaries from the noise. Join us for all the thrunting 👉: open.substack.com/pub/thorcoll... #threathunting #infosec

Cybersecurity needs more than hackers in hoodies. In this week’s @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch, Courtney Shar shares how project management skills like risk alignment, process design, and team coordination directly strengthen security programs. 👉 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/beyond-hac...

🚨 Think your browser extensions are harmless? Join @johntuckner.me for @thorcollective.bsky.social and learn how to hunt the dangerous ones before they hunt you: thorcollective.substack.com/p/even-if-ma... #cybersecurity #infosec #threathunting #thrunting

Even if many plugins are fine, the bad ones are BAD

Sydney recently wrote a great piece about extensions and hunting for IDE plugins.

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Not subscribed to the THOR Collective Dispatch yet? You might've missed my guest piece on hunting for bad browser extensions. Check if the extension your CFO installed to change text to Comic Sans is also taking screenshots of his Salesforce reports. dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/even-if-ma...

📻 Ask a Thrunt3r August is here! DEF CON wisdom unlocked: 🔓 Why your SecOps model isn't working anymore 🎯 Supply chain attacks via AI coding tools 🛠️ One tool @THOR_Collective wishes you knew about (hint: it's Sliver) dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/ask-a-thru... #threathunting #cybersecurity

Ask-a-Thrunt3r: August 2025 Recap 🐏

Mainly ramblings. And maybe some wisdom.

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Six malicious extensions listed in Cursor and hosted on Open VSX. All are squatting on other packages and are showing above the safe versions they target.

If you are around DEF CON today, join me at 5pm for “Sh*t Show Triage: An Honest Panel on Incident Response” btv-dc33.sessionize.com/session/966539

Sh*t Show Triage: An Honest Panel on Incident Response

You can start with the best intentions, solid tools, and all the right policies, but what happens when your network moves from “effing around” straight into “finding out”? Join a panel of variously tr...

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Shoutout to our fam Elipscion, who's spinning live at DEF CON 33 this Friday at 8pm on the DEF CON stage. 🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/artist/2tgPZ... 🔥 Join our @thorcollective.bsky.social meetup during his set. Say hi, talk hunts, and grab some free swag. See you there!

ELIPSCION

Artist · 10 monthly listeners.

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Oh hey! Did I mention I’m speaking on Saturday? I’ll be in track 1 at 2:30! defcon.org/html/defcon-...

🌵 Calm before the Hacker Summer Camp storm. July’s Dispatch Debrief is light on posts, heavy on hot takes — from agentic AI to making pentest findings sting. Catch up before Vegas 👉 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/dispatch-d...

Dispatch Debrief: July 2025

Consider this the calm before the Hacker Summer Camp storm.

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Threat hunting is broken. We can’t out-query adversaries who automate everything. Enter the agentic threat hunter. An AI that thinks, hypothesizes, investigates, and scales. In the latest @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch, we explore this shift: 📌 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/the-agenti...

msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07... Microsoft is aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers. The attacks are exploiting a variant of CVE-2025-49706. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2025-53770. SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365 is not impacted

THRUNTING isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a mindset. 🐑 Inspired by Tim Peters’ 19 aphorisms for Python, @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch introduces "The Zen of Thrunting." dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/the-zen-of... Stay curious. Happy thrunting.

The Zen of Thrunting

Abstract

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🔌 That browser extension? That IDE plugin? Might not be doing what you think. New on @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch: five hunt ideas + a PEAK deep dive into sneaky plugin abuse. Start with visibility. Hunt what blends in. 📖 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/your-plugi...

Your Plugins and Extensions Are (Probably) Fine. Hunt Them Anyway.

Five hunt ideas (and one deep dive) for abuse hiding in plain sight.

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New guest post on thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch from infosecsherpa.bsky.social: Don’t Let Mis(s) Information Take the Crown 👑 This post shows how to apply the Intelligence Cycle to news and help you filter bias. Read it here: dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/dont-let-m...

Don't Let Mis(s) Information Take the Crown

Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information!

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⚡ New @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch drop No hallucinations here. Just TTPs that quietly defined Q1 2025. 🔐 OAuth abuse 📦 Malicious packages 🖥️ SimpleHelp RMM exploits Stay ahead with what to hunt & where to look. 👉 dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/from-the-f... #THORCollective #threathunting

From the Fire: Q1FY25

TTPs that sparked, spread, and still burn for those paying attention.

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✨ New THOR Collective post ✨ Introducing Threat Hunting Relevancy Factors (THRF!) These factors can help you create relevant hunts and tangible impact for your organization. Show your business that you mean bzns. 📈 Join us at 👉: dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/threat-hun... #threathunting

Making Your Hunts Matter: Introducing Threat Hunting Relevancy Factors

Don’t just hunt, hunt with purpose.

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🐏 Ask a Thrunter AMA + Giveaway! Join @thorcollective.bsky.social live next THORsday, May 29th @ 7pm PT in Discord. We’ve got a special announcement + we’ll reveal the monthly giveaway winner (all paid Dispatch subscribers automatically entered!). Submit your questions early👇

Introverts rewrite detection rules repeatedly, while extroverts demo them mid-draft. In cybersecurity, you need both. Today's @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch features Alex Hurtado, highlighting how embracing differences strengthens SOC teams. 👉 : dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/quiet-loud...

Quiet, Loud, and in the Logfiles: The Detection Duo You Didn’t Know You Needed

Filed under: Things your agent can’t do but Linda from SecOps does without breaking a sweat.

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Sierra Ferrell, yeehaw! 🤠

🚨 New guest drop on @THOR_Collective Dispatch! 🚨 "Exploring Cybersecurity Career Paths and How They Work Together" by Audra Streetman Whether you're into offense, intel, or cyber defense, there's a path for you! Read it here: dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/exploring-...

💡 New guest drop on @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch: "Detection-in-Depth" by Day Johnson. Day covers how to build resilient detection systems that handle real-world challenges, from fine-tuning rules to threat emulation and kill chain coverage. dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/detection-...

Detection-In-Depth

Eliminating detection blind spots through a multi-layered defense approach

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🔥 Dispatch Debrief: April 2025 is live 🔥 Explore star sign-inspired hunting techniques, organizing your hunt squad, and the value of finding "nothing." Discover this month's insights from @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch - dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/april-debr...

Dispatch Debrief: April 2025

What We Hunted, Learned, and Loved This Month

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Ask-a-Thrunter is live this THORsday, May 1 @ 7pm PDT — paid subscribers only. Join us in the @thorcollective.bsky.social Discord for solid answers, spicy takes, and the April giveaway winner reveal. Drop your questions below. Not subscribed? Replay drops next week. Come thrunt with us 🐏

TL;DR - Attackers still use these old ass vulns because they're STILL WORKING www.greynoise.io/blog/greynoi...

GreyNoise Uncovers Unique Risks From Resurgent Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Attackers from every corner of the internet are exploiting a uniquely dangerous class of cyber flaws: resurgent vulnerabilities.

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When incidents hit, how you communicate shapes the outcome. This week’s @thorcollective.bsky.social Dispatch features @audrastreetman.bsky.social, former journalist turned cyber intel analyst. dispatch.thorcollective.com/p/how-commun...

How Communication Shapes the Outcome of Cybersecurity Incidents

Why the timing and transparency of messaging can make or break your incident response

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