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Hudson Rock

Cybercrime intelligence firm that tracks infostealer malware and compromised credentials, providing research on data breaches and dark web activity.

Known aliases

  • HudsonRock
  • Infostealers

Current stories

securityConfirmed10 publishers

FortiBleed keeps scanning exposed Fortinet firewalls as toll grows to 400,000-450,000 devices

The FBI and Secret Service warned Tuesday that FortiBleed is still scanning Fortinet firewalls and SSL VPN gateways with 86,644 stolen credentials. Patching and a password reset will not clear it.

Perspective Coverage

10 publishers
Builder
Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 69%
Investor
Investor 9%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption62
Hype gap+25
Incentives40
Confidence68
securityConfirmed5 publishers

Stolen logins, not a SaaS breach: nine enterprises' Entra directories are now for sale

A seller using the name TheHatman is offering employee directory exports from nine named enterprises. Hudson Rock ties the theft to infostealer credentials, not a compromise of the provider.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 61%
Investor
Investor 14%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence60
securityConfirmed5 publishers

A hijacked HBO Max Reddit account pushed 108 ClickFix ads to Windows and macOS users

Hudson Rock and ADAMnetworks link the ads to an operation they call PasteSwitch, which hands Windows and macOS visitors different paste-this-command lures and swaps payloads on the backend depending on who arrives.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives50
Confidence72
securityOne report1 publisher

Forged government requests pulled passport data out of Revolut for five months

A hacker used a government employee's infostealer-compromised mailbox to send fraudulent requests to Revolut's Lithuanian subsidiary for about five months, and roughly 680 customers' passports and financial data went out.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption55
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

Automated /.env scanning collected 1,033 live Stripe keys from 669 unrelated stacks

The keys work because they are keys. A standard sk_live carries refunds and sometimes payouts. The fix that matters today is rotation. The fix that lasts is a document root that refuses to serve dotfiles.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption31
Hype gap+9
Incentives44
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

Every one of thirteen named 2025-26 incidents ran on a credential that still worked

Anthropic, Sysdig, Unit 42 and GitGuardian describe the same shape of failure, which puts the interesting number on your side of the fence: how long an issued token keeps working after it leaves your control.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence27
Adoption44
Hype gap+37
Incentives71
Confidence57
scienceOne report1 publisher

LiteLLM's 40 minutes on PyPI: 153GB of loot, 2,488 named orgs, and the victims nobody can name

Hudson Rock's analysis of the exfiltration archive ties 118,829 CI runner dumps to 2,488 organizations. The dumps carrying no identifying metadata are the harder half.

Publishers:blog.gitguardian.com

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption71
Hype gap+12
Incentives79
Confidence54