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Chrysalis Backdoor: What You Need to Know - and How Progress Flowmon Threat Briefing Helps You Stay Ahead

A newly analyzed threat, Chrysalis, is a sophisticated backdoor attributed to the Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom. The malware employs advanced evasion techniques including heavy obfuscation, API hashing, dynamic DNS resolution, custom encryption and stealthy C2 communication disguised as legitimate traffic.

Instrumenting Code Using Prism and the Ruby Abstract Syntax Tree

A repository for this article can be found here.‍ When most developers think about request tracing, they picture instrumentation hooks inside familiar libraries. This allows us to track familiar metrics we see in application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as the duration of an HTTP call or how long a database query takes. But what if you could go deeper and instrument your own Ruby code automatically, without sprinkling timing calls everywhere?

VirtualMetric DataStream + Google SecOps Integration: Pre-Ingest UDM Normalization at Scale

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is widely used for large-scale security analytics, long-term telemetry retention, and detection across diverse environments. Its Unified Data Model (UDM) enables correlation across sources and supports analytics that operate over long time horizons. To take full advantage of these capabilities, security data must arrive in a consistent and well-structured UDM format. In practice, this is rarely the case.

8 Best AIOps Tools for Modern IT Teams in 2026

IT operations teams deal with growing system volume, faster release cycles, and tighter service expectations. Traditional monitoring tools generate large alert volumes, yet teams still spend hours sorting signal from noise under pressure. Manual triage slows response time, while disconnected tools stretch incident handling and service recovery.

Why Residential ISP ICMP Blocking Makes Remote Worker Monitoring Impossible (And What to Do About It)

When your company’s help desk receives fifteen "my connection is slow" tickets from remote employees in a single morning. Your network monitoring dashboard shows everything green; VPN concentrators running smoothly, bandwidth usage normal, no alerts. Yet employees can't get their work done. You try to ping their home routers. Nothing. Attempt a traceroute to diagnose the path. It dies at the ISP edge. Check your SNMP queries. They never make it past the residential gateway.

TraceExporter for VS Code

Percepio TraceExporter for VS Code makes it easy to export Percepio TraceRecorder snapshots during your debug session and open them directly in Percepio Tracealyzer. This is applicable for embedded systems based on Zephyr, FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, Cesium, ThreadX or PX5, or using TraceRecorder’s “Bare Metal” option. The extension is currently provided in a Beta version as a downloadable.vsix file.

The Rise of Affordable Luxury: How High-Quality Watch Replicas Are Disrupting the Market in 2026

In 2026, owning a Rolex isn't just about telling time-it's a statement of success, adventure, and timeless style. But with genuine Rolex Submariner models averaging $14,000-$15,000 on the secondary market (and often much higher due to waiting lists), many enthusiasts are turning to an unexpected alternative: high-quality replicas, known as "super clones." These aren't the cheap fakes from years past-they're meticulously crafted pieces that rival the originals in look, feel, and even functionality.

How Digital Money Movement Is Shaping Everyday Global Transfers

Sending money across borders is no longer an occasional task reserved for emergencies or special situations. For millions of people worldwide, it is part of everyday life. Migrant workers support families back home, individuals split expenses internationally, and communities stay financially connected despite geographic distance. As this behavior has become routine, expectations around speed, reliability, and accessibility have risen sharply.

How Modern Design Tools Are Changing Direct Mail Marketing

Direct mail has gone through a quiet transformation. Once seen as a slow, rigid channel dominated by print specs and long lead times, it has become a flexible, data-driven part of modern marketing stacks. The biggest shift has not been in printing technology, but in how marketers design, personalize, and deploy mail at speed. Visual-first design tools and automation platforms have lowered the barrier to entry, allowing teams to create campaigns that look polished, feel intentional, and integrate naturally with digital workflows.