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🔐 Microsoft is retiring NTLM. The problem is that attackers still love it.

NTLM hashes remain a powerful tool for Pass-the-Hash and relay attacks. As organizations move toward Kerberos-only authentication, identifying hidden relay paths is critical.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/ntlm-hash-security-kerberos-migration/

The 2026 Guide to NTLM Hash Security and Kerberos Migration An NTLM hash is the mathematical version of a password that Windows uses for legacy authentication. For years, the security industry has known that older versions of this system were broken. Now, the 2025 and 2026 security baselines target the death of the entire NTLM stack, including NTLMv2. Micros...

☁️ Attackers don’t wait for alerts anymore.
They hide inside your cloud infrastructure while automated tools drown teams in noise.

Threat hunting in the cloud is about proactively finding the attackers that already bypassed your defenses — before they steal data or establish persistence.

👉 Learn how modern cloud threat hunting actually works:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/cloud-threat-hunting/

Threat Hunting in the Cloud: Proactive Security Explained Threat hunting in the cloud is the only reliable way to find sophisticated attackers hiding inside your infrastructure. Your cloud setup probably triggered dozens of security alerts last week. Most of them were just noise. A few were duplicates. But one of them might’ve been a real threat buried i...

📢 New 7ASecurity public report

🔒 Ouinet audited by 7ASecurity through a deep whitebox security assessment
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/ouinet-audit-7asecurity/

💬 Feedback welcome as always, props to for coordination

Ouinet audit by 7ASecurity About Ouinet Ouinet is a suite of free, open source software tools and infrastructure that provides access to the open internet in repressive information contexts with limited or no connectivity. Ouinet works through a network of cooperating nodes or servers, using peer-to-peer routing, and the dist...

🛡️ PCI compliance alone won’t stop attackers.
Passing an audit only proves your controls worked on one specific day. Real attackers look for the gaps between the checkboxes.

Manual pe*******on testing helps uncover the logic flaws, weak segmentation, and hidden risks automated scans miss.

👉 Learn how PCI regulations actually impact your security:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/pci-regulations-data-security/

PCI Regulations: Keep Your Business and Customer Data Safe PCI regulation forces you to build basic security walls, but it doesn't automatically stop hackers from climbing over them. Year after year, businesses pass PCI compliance audits. They receive their certificates and assume their payment systems are secure. Yet, soon after, a data breach hits them. T...