: Supply chain attacks have increased by 1,300% over the last three years, with attackers frequently exploiting OAuth tokens and trusted vendor relationships .

Rafian has spent his entire life balancing on the razor-thin line between brilliance and breakdown. "On the edge" isn't just his location—it's his state of mind. He thrives in the discomfort of the "almost," the space where most people turn back. For Rafian, the edge is the only place where the world finally makes sense, even if the fall is inevitable.

A Rafian actor, however, deploys "living-off-the-land" binaries and wormable exploits indiscriminately. They push the network to the edge of collapse—not to destroy data, but to watch how the blue team bleeds . The edge is the intelligence-gathering phase.

"When you play safe, you have a buffer. You can breathe," Rafian explained. "I don’t give myself a buffer. Every game is a final boss fight. It’s exhausting, yeah. But when you pull off the impossible? That feeling is addictive. It’s the only way I know how to play."