initial access broker

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2026
CyberXero Used 51 AI Agents to Steal 628,000 Ukrainian Records

CyberXero used 51 AI agents to support cyberattacks, stealing 628,000 Ukrainian records, including sensitive data from energy infrastructure. CyberXero is an operation that combines traditional hacking tools with AI agents to carry out cyberattacks. According to SOCRadar researchers, the attackers use the same infrastructure for two different campaigns: one targets WordPress websites and e-commerce platforms […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026
Hunt.io Finds New Infrastructure Of BraZetsu Access Broker Months Before Disclosure

Hunt.io traced BraZetsu ‘s infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers published a detailed writeup on BraZetsu back on August 31, naming it a Python framework compiled with Nuitka and tying it to a Brazilian actor called Exilware with high confidence. Hunt.io checked whether […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026
FortiBleed: The Broker Who Turned 73,000 Firewalls Into a Product Catalog

FortiBleed exposed valid credentials for 73,000+ Fortinet firewalls, revealing a large-scale access-brokering operation targeting organizations worldwide. In mid-June 2026, researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko found a live, exposed server containing working login credentials for tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls, a data leak code-named FortiBleed. The headline number, valid remote-access logins for 73,932 devices across 21,632 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2026
Access broker caught: Jordanian pleads guilty to hacking 50 companies

A Jordanian man pleaded guilty in the US to selling illegal access to 50 compromised enterprise networks after an undercover sting. A Jordanian national Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti (40), living in Georgia, pleaded guilty in a US court to acting as an access broker, selling unauthorized access to the networks of at least 50 companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2025
SAP NetWeaver zero-day allegedly exploited by an initial access broker

A zero-day in SAP NetWeaver is potentially being exploited, putting thousands of internet-facing applications at risk. Researchers warn that a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-31324 (CVSS score of 10/10), in SAP NetWeaver is potentially being exploited. Thousands of internet-facing applications are potentially at risk. The flaw in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader stems from a lack […]