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Company blog · blog.certfa.com/postssecurity

Certfa is the company blog at blog.certfa.com, writing about security. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Return of the Charming Kitten: phishing attacks by Iran state-backed hackers”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

Certfa, Digital Security, Security Forensic, Malware Analysis , Security Audit

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Return of the Charming Kitten: phishing attacks by Iran state-backed hackers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. secfirstmd · 2018-12-13

    Submitted The Return of the Charming Kitten: phishing attacks by Iran state-backed hackers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. quakeguy · 2019-01-02

    Submitted A review of the latest wave of Iranian organized phishing attacks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. alexrustic · 2021-01-13

    Submitted A review of the latest Charming Kitten phishing campaign as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. jonathanlydall · 2020-08-13

    Submitted Weaponizing of Google Cloud Storage for phishing attacks (2019) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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