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Learning Paths

Curated reading sequences through the research archive. Each path is ordered - start at step one and work through. No tracking, no completion badges. Just a suggested order.

Malware4 articles

Understand Ransomware

From the first nation-state wiper disguised as ransomware to a $22M healthcare extortion. Covers how ransomware works, how it spreads, and why defenders keep losing.

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WannaCry and EternalBlue
How a leaked NSA exploit became a global worm in 72 hours
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NotPetya
The $10B cyberweapon disguised as ransomware that had no off switch
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3
Colonial Pipeline
How one leaked password shut down East Coast fuel supply
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Change Healthcare
The ransomware attack that broke US healthcare payment infrastructure
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OPSEC4 articles

Understand OPSEC Failures

Four cases where operational security failures brought down criminal operations - from the forum that invented modern cybercrime to a $1B dark web market collapsed by a personal email address.

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ShadowCrew
The forum that invented modern carding - and how the Secret Service took it down
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2
Silk Road
Ross Ulbricht's Stack Overflow post, his real name, and the FBI
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3
LulzSec
50 days of chaos - ended by an informant inside the group
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4
AlphaBay and Hansa
Alexandre Cazes lost a $1B market to a personal Hotmail address
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Hardware5 articles

Hardware Security

The physical layer of offensive security - RF, RFID cloning, software-defined radio, HID attacks, and rogue access points. Covers the tools and the techniques.

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Flipper Zero
Sub-GHz, BadUSB, NFC and IR in one pocket device
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2
Proxmark3
Cloning hotel keys, office badges, and transit cards
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3
HackRF One
Software-defined radio - listening to everything the spectrum carries
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O.MG Cable
A charging cable that owns your machine
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WiFi Pineapple
Evil twin attacks, captive portals, and public WiFi exploitation
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note: paths are editorial curation only. each article stands alone - you can read in any order. these sequences just reflect a logical progression through the material.