Beyond Zero-Days: What Real Threat Hunting Is Actually Finding
Tue Jan 27 2026
Every week there’s a new zero-day, a new CVE, a new headline. But what rarely gets talked about is what real threat hunting is uncovering when you actually go looking.
Today’s conversation is about what’s happening beyond zero-days — the automated scanning, the long-tail exploitation, the shared infrastructure, and the attack behavior that lives in the background noise of the internet.
We’re joined by Vijay Akasapu, CEO of Cylerian, whose team recently went hunting for early React2Shell exploitation and instead uncovered something much bigger: a multi-layered exploitation ecosystem probing across Java, Python, and PHP stacks at the same time.
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Every week there’s a new zero-day, a new CVE, a new headline. But what rarely gets talked about is what real threat hunting is uncovering when you actually go looking. Today’s conversation is about what’s happening beyond zero-days — the automated scanning, the long-tail exploitation, the shared infrastructure, and the attack behavior that lives in the background noise of the internet. We’re joined by Vijay Akasapu, CEO of Cylerian, whose team recently went hunting for early React2Shell exploitation and instead uncovered something much bigger: a multi-layered exploitation ecosystem probing across Java, Python, and PHP stacks at the same time.