{"id":8977,"date":"2025-12-06T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/sharpening-the-knife-gold-blades-strategic-evolution\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:04:07","slug":"sharpening-the-knife-gold-blades-strategic-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/sharpening-the-knife-gold-blades-strategic-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpening the knife: GOLD BLADE\u2019s strategic evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Sharpening the knife: GOLD BLADE\u2019s strategic evolution<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Updates include novel abuse of recruitment platforms, modified infection chains, and expansion into a hybrid operation that combines data theft and ransomware deployment<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Mindi McDowell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2025\/12\/05\/sharpening-the-knife-gold-blades-strategic-evolution\/\">Go to sophos<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpening the knife: GOLD BLADE\u2019s strategic evolution Updates include novel abuse of recruitment platforms, modified infection chains, and expansion into a hybrid operation that combines data theft and ransomware deployment Mindi McDowell Go to sophos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2118,106,1634,2119,2120,1635,58,2121,110],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-featured","category-gold-blade","category-qwcrypt","category-recruitment-platforms","category-redloader","category-sophos","category-stac6565","category-threat-research","tag-sophos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}