Red Canary SecOps Weekly: August 2026’s top threats


Episode 77 - August 2026's Top Threats
Senior Intelligence Analyst Stef Rand breaks down the threats our intelligence team saw in July, including the debut of four new threats: GraphSpy, Phexia, CastleRAT, and EtherRAT.
SHOW NOTES
In this episode of SecOps Weekly, Senior Intelligence Analyst Stef Rand and Vice President of Information Security Engineering Keith McCammon discuss the August Intelligence Insights and the massive shakeup to the top 10 threats. They unpack all four of the debuting threats which include three RATs and a device code phishing tool. The pair also dives into the emergence of sophisticated C2 evasion techniques.
TIMESTAMPS
- 00:00: Welcome to SecOps Weekly!
- 01:48: Top 10 threats
- 03:32: Odds & ends
- 09:25: GraphSpy, Phexia, CastleRAT, EtherRAT
- 13:44: GraphSpy deep dive
- 16:12: How dead drop resolvers work
- 22:10: A look at EtherHiding
- 25:49: Remediation guidance