Independent cyber threat news, vulnerability analysis, detection engineering and horizon scanning, written in plain English for defenders.
What we do
Cyber-Threat.net is written for the people who have to act on security news, not merely read it. That means the analyst triaging a new advisory at nine in the morning, the engineer turning it into a detection by lunch, and the manager who has to explain all of it to a board by Thursday.
We cover six things, and try to cover them properly:
- Threats and vulnerabilities. What has been disclosed, what is being exploited, which versions are affected and what to do first.
- Hunt Lab. Detection and hunting content you can lift straight into your own tooling. The queries live in our public repository at github.com/CyberThreatNet/hunt-lab, where you can read, test and improve them.
- Horizon scanning. The slower-moving changes that will matter next year rather than next week.
- Regulation and standards. What new law and guidance actually require of a security team, as opposed to what the marketing says it requires.
- AI security. How AI systems and agents are attacked, and how to defend them.
- Reviews and events. Tools and conferences, judged on whether they earn their place in a working week.
We would rather be useful than first. If a story is still forming, we say so, and we come back to it when it has settled.
The Long Watch
Our newsletter, The Long Watch, is launching soon. It will gather the week’s threats, the patches that matter, a hunt worth running and one item from further out on the horizon. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.
Ownership and funding
Cyber-Threat.net is an independent publication. It is not owned by, or funded by, any security vendor, government body or industry association.
If we take advertising or sponsorship in future, it will be labelled, and it will never buy coverage. The details are in our editorial standards.
Independently owned and edited.
Our standards
- We cite primary sources.
- We separate fact from analysis.
- We correct openly, with dates.
Read our full editorial standards, including how we handle corrections.
Who writes here
Cyber-Threat.net publishes under house pen names. Each pen name covers a regular beat, so you will always know whose desk a piece came from, and the editorial standards behind every byline are the same. Our editor is Valentine M Smith.
Getting in touch
Tips, corrections and the occasional kind word are all welcome. See our contact page.