Malicious software and what it actually does: infection paths, ransomware realities, cleanup that works, and prevention grounded in how malware behaves rather than how vendors describe it.
MalwareJuly 13, 2026
The attack that reached my site did not come at it. It came through it, riding a trusted update channel. Why supply chain attacks scale, why they extend to hardware, and how to manage a chain you cannot eliminate.
MalwareJuly 13, 2026
A plugin folder appeared on my site that I never installed. It was caught before it did damage, and the investigation changed how I run every part of my WordPress stack.
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
The email said malware had been quarantined on my site and I had three days to fix it. Deleting the file took a minute. The forensics took two days, and the trail ended somewhere worse than a break-in: the plugin…
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
ILOVEYOU never encrypted a file or stole a password from us. It just sent mail, from hundreds of our machines at once, until our Exchange server ran out of disk space and died. Recovery took weeks, and it changed how…
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