Blog
Customer Spotlight: Interview with Kunal Agarwal, CEO, dope.security
The cybersecurity industry has developed a reputation of sorts for rolling out complex solutions to complex problems. With many of these solutions, the user experience takes a back seat to their features and capabilities, often leaving security practitioners to trudge...
Spam Safari: Hulu Discount Scam
We’re off on another Spam Safari, and let’s just start off by saying that we basically had a Choose Your Own Adventure-level of options waiting for us this month. Our inbox (well, Spam folder, mostly) was absolutely inundated with all sorts of interesting...
Year In Review: 2023
2023 was a banner year here at alphaMountain. We attended our first industry trade shows as a team, we launched threatYeti, we continued our support of Cisco’s high-profile events SOC, and we signed up a whole host of new customers for our domain and IP threat...
Teardown: ACE Hardware Survey Scam
Cybercrime is getting more complex. Threat actors are no longer satisfied with just one bite at the proverbial apple. Remember the good old days when a DDoS attack could be shut off for a small crypto payment? Those days are over. Today, cybercriminals are...
What Is URL Classification?
As the world came online and the internet took on a life of its own, websites of all kinds popped up by the thousands. This explosion of content on every topic imaginable is part of what has made the worldwide web such a captivating and valuable space over the past...
USPS Scam: Very SoPHISHticated
Imagine this. It arrives just like so many other SMS messages these days. It’s from an unknown number, it’s got a call to action, and it’s not overly-threatening. In fact, it’s actually kind of friendly: “Avoid package loss. Thank you!” “The USPS team wishes...