One Way Or Another: Initial Access Vectors

This blog post surveys uncommon and opportunistic initial-access techniques illustrated by real incidents — IoT device compromise (the fish tank), exploitation of personal-hosted services leading to corporate breaches, cookie theft and account takeover (EA/Genesis Market/LAPSUS$), a software supply-chain compromise (NoxPlayer), malicious USB/insider-assisted access (TurbinePanda), and the role of access brokerages and insider recruitment. It emphasizes asset inventory, basic hygiene (MFA, patching), threat hunting, and monitoring of access marketplaces as mitigations.