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Caught in the funnel. [Research Saturday]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, Daily News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today we have Andrew Northern, Principal Security Researcher at Censys, discussing "From Evasion to Evidence: Exploiting the Funneling Behavior of Injects". This research explains how modern web malware campaigns use multi-stage JavaScript injections, redirects, and fake CAPTCHAs to selectively deliver payloads and evade detection. It shows that these attack chains rely on stable redirect and traffic-distribution chokepoints that can be monitored at scale. Using the SmartApe campaign as a case study, the report demonstrates how defenders can turn those chokepoints into high-confidence detection and tracking opportunities. The research can be found here: From Evasion to Evidence: Exploiting the Funneling Behavior of Injects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.

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I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

1:53.1

down the threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems and protecting

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ourselves in our rapidly evolving cyberspace. Thanks for joining us.

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I think that in general what we're seeing is a broader shift in the greater threat landscape,

2:13.6

where we're seeing adoption of web technologies as the way that threat actors

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