Flare | Threat Exposure Management | Unmatched Visibility into Cybercrime

By Oleg Lypko, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

The dominant story about post-Soviet cybercrime is one of impunity, and it is believed from both directions: by Western observers who...

Chris d’Eon, Threat Intelligence Researcher

When Tudou Guarantee shut down in January 2026, it left behind a $12 billion empire with no heir. Hundreds of thousands of channel subscribers, premium Telegram usernames, vendor relationships, and a customer base accustomed to spending millions in USDT on laundering, stolen data, and fraud tooling...

By Assaf Morag, Cybersecurity Researcher

At first glance, the single underground advertisement looks like another over-engineered botnet sales post: cross-platform execution, encrypted command-and-control, persistence, defense evasion, exploit modules, credential theft, and lateral movement.

None of these capabilities are particularl...

By Assaf Morag, Cybersecurity Researcher

We found more than 15,000 items containing at least one exposed healthcare secret. When we focused on the 231 most severe cases, we found alarming patterns: full production credentials, cloud admin keys, database access, payment platform secrets, and AI provider tokens, all sitting in public view. Using Flare...

By Andréanne Bergeron, Security Researcher & Catherine Larose, Criminology Intern (University of Montreal)

A social security number sells for $4.31 on the dark web, and it also carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison. PHI commands $300 per record (the highest price on any dark web market), but does not even appear among the top ...