DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

Once in a BlueMoon: Inside the Exploit Chain Four Espionage Groups Adopted in Days

September 16, 2026·56 min
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Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cybernauts! This week Selena is joined by not one, not two, but three guests — Mark Kelly, Julia Paluch, and Dave Galazin — to unpack Proofpoint's latest research. Mark walks through how it started: on August 28, the China-aligned actor TA412 (aka Violet Typhoon), previously known mostly for device registration phishing, suddenly began delivering a Chrome exploit — kicking off a frantic cross-team investigation involving partners at Google and Microsoft. Wit...

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