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SocGholish to RansomHub: The Fake-Update Drive-By operation cover
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SocGholish to RansomHub: The Fake-Update Drive-By

A logistics planner browsing an industry site accepted a fake browser-update prompt, and a quiet endpoint script alert turned into credential theft by midday. Follow the chain from a compromised-site injection through a SocGholish JavaScript loader and its command-and-control beacon to a forced-authentication credential harvest and an SMB brute force against a service account.

55m
7 tasks
50 points
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Nov 17, 2026

Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM

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What you'll investigate

7 objectives unlock when this operation goes live.

1Scope the intrusion
2Find the compromised entry point
3Trace the script execution
4Recover the loader command-and-control
5Expose the forced-authentication endpoint
6Identify the brute-forced account
7Classify the credential-harvest technique

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