Every major cyberattack has a story behind it. A vulnerability no one patched. A phishing email someone clicked. A nation-state with a motive. Dark Perimeter goes beyond the headlines to explore the true stories of the hacks, breaches, and cyber operations that shaped history - told in narrative form for security professionals and curious minds alike. No guests, no panels, no filler. Just the story.
March 2020. The Russian intelligence service SVR quietly inserted a backdoor into a software update for SolarWinds Orion — used by eighteen thousand organizations worldwide, including the Pentagon, Treasury, State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security.
They were inside for eight months before a cybersecurity company named FireEye noticed something wrong with its own network — and discovered it wasn't alone.
The most sophisticated cyberespionage operation ever conducted against...
8 Oct 2026
Critical Is Not a Priority
Four things carried a critical severity rating this week, and they were not the same problem. Cole, Dr. Vance and Marcus Hale rank the week out loud, with reasons, because the ranking is the actual work.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (CVE-2026-76504), CVSS 9.8. A URL-encoding authentication bypass yielding admin API access. Cisco confirmed exploitation in the wild, learned of it through a TAC support case, and the KEV remediation date of 3 October has already passed.
FortiMail (CVE-2026-104...
6 Oct 2026
Your Tier Zero List Is Wrong
Three things happened in the last week that look like three different stories. Citrix shipped an emergency bulletin for NetScaler bugs that were already being exploited. GitLab patched a 9.9 in the gateway that runs its AI agents. Dell pushed six critical fixes for the component connecting enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes. Cole Drayden, Dr. Elliott Vance and Marcus Hale argue they are one story. On NetScaler: CVE-2026-88771, an unauthenticated command injection, and CVE-2026-88772, a D...
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