Thinkst Canary
@ThinkstCanary
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Most companies only realise they are breached when informed by a 3rd party. This is a stupid problem! Thinkst Canary. Know. When it Matters.
Loved on all 7 Continents
Joined May 2015
This year we crossed $11M in ARR. This is pretty unusual for a bootstrapped company, so we wrote down some thoughts on it:.
blog.thinkst.com
This year Thinkst Canary crossed the line to $11M in ARR. That number is reasonably significant in the startup world, where Lemkin refers to it as “initial scale”. For us; it’s a happy reminder of …
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RT @EdMnemonic: I just unlocked all 7 continents in @ThinkstCanary's Byte Runner. @ThinkstCanary — Detecting Badness since 2015. https:/….
canary.tools
The Game Winner - Celebrating the ultimate achievement in the maze.
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It's our birthday, so we created a tiny skunk(worksy) game for you to play. Complete all 7 continents, and we will send you a limited-edition, 10-year t-shirt. Have fun!! (but watch out for the Canaries).
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In April this year, @grafana had a security incident due to an insecure GitHub Action. The attackers even tried covering their tracks. How were they discovered? Canarytokens. Check out their (super transparent) post¹ on how they use our tokens at scale. __.¹ link follows
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RT @hkashfi: Moral of the story: .Use canary tokens! It just fucking works!.
grafana.com
On April 26, an unauthorized user exploited a vulnerability with a GitHub workflow to gain unauthorized access to tokens, all of which have now been invalidated. At this time, our investigation has...
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"We had good success with your canaries at . ". "I would like to intro my (new) team at . ". 10 years in && we still do 0 outbound sales. We've had the best customers since day-1!. 💪💚
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A friendly reminder from your Canary Console that if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, you can probably check out the Perseid meteor shower this week. 💪💚💫
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BlackHat boothing was great. We got to hang-out with customers & chat Canary with a bunch of new folks. Our booth has changed, our tech has levelled up (by orders of magnitude) but it's the same price¹ as always, & still "just works!" . __.¹ Never increased prices since year-1
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The 2025, Q2 edition of ThinkstScapes is now available for download¹ at If you are in Vegas for BlackHat, swing by our booth for a hard copy. This edition tracks "over 1,450 talks & papers & almost 1,400 blog posts". __.¹ As always, completely free
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The @ThinkstCanary booth currently booting up at @BlackHatEvents. Pop by to chat detection that “just works”
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RT @anand_himanshu: Fork().They tried 1000 Euro of transaction right away. Thanks @ThinkstCanary for the canary tokens :) .
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RT @rvandenbrink: @techspence @haroonmeer If you’re talking about something like thingst canary, 100% yes. Zero false positives with that….
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RT @_winter_wonders: @IceSolst @ThinkstCanary Thinkst is a pleasure to work with in general, one of the few vendors I actually enjoy.
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RT @adiann0n: @dcuthbert @ThinkstCanary I'll agree. This was one of our simplest and most impactful roll outs. Incredible support. And they….
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We published an internal post that our @marcoslaviero recently wrote "on caring". It's worth a read, because as he writes. caring about what is built is surprisingly fragile (and shockingly absent). (link follows)
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RT @TechCrunch: A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
Reflecting on 10 years since its launch, the honeypot maker explains why the company did not take on any VC funding.
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When we first built @ThinkstCanary we were proud that it took less than 4 minutes to be useful when bought. Now it takes less than two. Catching attackers is the game the whole family can play.
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