Books & Papers Security Vulnerabilities

BokuLoader - A Proof-Of-Concept Cobalt Strike Reflective Loader Which Aims To Recreate, Integrate, And Enhance Cobalt Strike's Evasion Features!

A proof-of-concept User-Defined Reflective Loader (UDRL) which aims to recreate, integrate, and enhance Cobalt Strike's evasion features! Contributors: Contributor | Twitter | Notable Contributions ---|---|--- Bobby Cooke | @0xBoku | Project original author and maintainer Santiago Pecin |...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024

This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson, died unexpectedly. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of...

Retrieving Deleted Files on the Commodore C64 in 1987

When I was a sophomore in high school, from 1987 to 1988, my friend Paul and I had Commodore C64 computers. There was a new graphical user interface called GEOS that had transformed the way we interacted with our computers. We used the C64 to play games but also write papers for school. One day...

Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geolocate devices. Researchers from the University of...

Security Advisory 0097

Security Advisory 0097 PDF Date: May 24, 2024 Revision | Date | Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | May 24, 2024 | Initial release The CVE-ID tracking this issue: CVE-2023-52424 CVSSv3.1 Base Score: Not indicated by NVD as of 5/23/2024 Description Arista Networks is providing this security update in...

Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Image: Shutterstock. Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly...

Hakuin - A Blazing Fast Blind SQL Injection Optimization And Automation Framework

Hakuin is a Blind SQL Injection (BSQLI) optimization and automation framework written in Python 3. It abstracts away the inference logic and allows users to easily and efficiently extract databases (DB) from vulnerable web applications. To speed up the process, Hakuin utilizes a variety of...

Vulnerabilities that (mostly) aren’t: LUCKY13

TL;DR LUCKY13 is more an attack than a vulnerability LUCKY13 was patched over a decade ago … so it’s really unlikely that your server is vulnerable now It's an implementation issue Disabling CBC ciphers is still a good idea … but not because of susceptibility to LUCKY13 There is no material risk...

The Business of Cybersecurity Ownership

Who exactly owns cybersecurity in your organisation? Authored by Sean Vogelenzang Many would say the answer is obvious. It’s the chief information security officer (CISO) and his or her team, of course. However, it’s not that simple. Sure, the CISO and their team are responsible for setting the...

CodeQL zero to hero part 3: Security research with CodeQL

I've written a bit in the past about static analysis (CodeQL zero to hero part 1: Fundamentals of static analysis) and basics of writing CodeQL queries (CodeQL zero to hero part 2: Getting started with CodeQL). Today, I want to dig deeper about CodeQL and talk about variant analysis, writing a...

Taking Time to Understand NIS2 Reporting Requirements

The newest version of the European Union Network and Information Systems directive, or NIS2, came into force in January 2023. Member States have until October 2024 to transpose it into their national law. One of the most critical changes with NIS2 is the schedule for reporting a cybersecurity...

CVE-2024-2201

A flaw was found in some Intel CPUs where mitigations for the Spectre V2/BHI vulnerability were incomplete. This issue may allow an attacker to read arbitrary memory, compromising system integrity and exposing sensitive information. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or...

CVE-2024-2201

[x86: Native Branch History Injection] Notes Author| Note ---|--- sbeattie | in the short term, Ubuntu 6.6 based kernels (Ubuntu 23.10 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 HWE kernels) have backported the first round of native_bhi mitigations, but are defaulting to spectre_bhi=auto. The kernel commandline...

New Wave of JSOutProx Malware Targeting Financial Firms in APAC and MENA

Financial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are being targeted by a new version of an "evolving threat" called JSOutProx. "JSOutProx is a sophisticated attack framework utilizing both JavaScript and .NET," Resecurity said in a technical report...

Nextcloud: Weak ssh algorithms and CVE-2023-48795 Discovered on various subdomains of nextcloud.com

Security researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have discovered a vulnerability in the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic network protocol that could allow an attacker to downgrade the connection's security by breaking the integrity of the secure channel. Called Terrapin (CVE-2023-48795, CVSS...

Exploit for Classic Buffer Overflow in Golang Go

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Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can't remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and...

Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs

In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to give away their friends' email addresses in exchange for free pizza. "Whereas people say they care...

Speculative Race Condition

Modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution are vulnerable to a Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability, akin to Spectre V1. The vulnerability arises from race conditions that allow an unauthenticated attacker to exploit speculative executable code paths, potentially...

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

CVE-2024-2193 Speculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

Breaking it Down: A Data-Centric Security Perspective on NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

On February 26, 2024, NIST released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework. This blog reviews the fundamental changes introduced in CSF 2.0 and data-centric security considerations that should be made when aligning with the new framework. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated,...

Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1)

NB: the code is here on my Github account: github.com/joshlong/bootiful-spring-boot-2024-blog. Hi, Spring fans! I'm Josh Long, and I work on the Spring team. I'm excited to be keynoting and giving a talk at Microsoft's JDConf this year. I'm a Kotlin GDE and a Java Champion, and I'm of the opinion.....

#StopRansomware: Phobos Ransomware

Actions to take today to mitigate Phobos ransomware activity: Secure RDP ports to prevent threat actors from abusing and leveraging RDP tools. Prioritize remediating known exploited vulnerabilities. Implement EDR solutions to disrupt threat actor memory allocation...

Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks

Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI,...

The Psychology of Phishing: Unraveling the Success Behind Phishing Attacks and Effective Countermeasures

The Psychology of Phishing: Unraveling the Success Behind Phishing Attacks and Effective Countermeasures By Tomer Shloman · February 1, 2024 Phishing is one of the most sneaky and widespread attacks in the constantly changing world of cybersecurity threats. This form of cyber attack, deceiving...

Chatbots and Human Conversation

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed instructions, delivered through punch cards; then came a command-line interface, followed by menus and options and text boxes. If you.....

China-backed Hackers Hijack Software Updates to Implant "NSPX30" Spyware

A previously undocumented China-aligned threat actor has been linked to a set of adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack update requests from legitimate software to deliver a sophisticated implant named NSPX30. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the advanced persistent threat...

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

A Canadian man who says he's been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve "triangulation fraud," which occurs when a consumer purchases something online -- from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example -- but the seller.....

Are You Ready for PCI DSS 4.0?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the global benchmark for ensuring companies that handle credit card information maintain a secure environment. It provides a framework to help organizations protect sensitive cardholder data from theft and secure payment card systems. .....

Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. The case is thought to be the first in which a federal court has recognized the use of information included in a bitcoin transaction -- such as a...

BlueHat India Call for Papers is Now Open!

You asked for it and it’s finally here! The inaugural BlueHat India conference will be held May 16-17th, 2024, in Hyderabad, India! This intimate conference will bring together a unique blend of security researchers and responders, who come together as peers to exchange ideas, experiences, and...

AI and Lossy Bottlenecks

Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making. Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that...

This Year in Spring - 2023

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in...

Story of the year: the impact of AI on cybersecurity

In the whirlwind of technological advancements and societal transformations, the term "AI" has undoubtedly etched itself into the forefront of global discourse. Over the past twelve months, this abbreviation has resonated across innumerable headlines, business surveys and tech reports, firmly...

Meta’s Purple Llama wants to test safety risks in AI models

Meta has announced Purple Llama, a project that aims to "bring together tools and evaluations to help the community build responsibly with open generative AI models." Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have been around for years and their main function, compared to older AI models is...

2024 Predictions for Cybersecurity: The Rise of AI Brings New Challenges

The emergence of generative AI has put new resources in the hands of both attackers and defenders, and in 2024, Imperva believes the technology will have an even greater impact. Understanding how attackers are leveraging the technology will be critical for organizations seeking to keep...

Aladdin - Payload Generation Technique That Allows The Deseriallization Of A .NET Payload And Execution In Memory

Aladdin is a payload generation technique based on the work of James Forshaw (@tiraniddo) that allows the deseriallization of a .NET payload and execution in memory. The original vector was documented on https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2017/07/dg-on-windows-10-s-executing-arbitrary.html. By spawning the....

Unveiling the Deceptive Dance: Phobos Ransomware Masquerading As VX-Underground

During a recent hunt, Qualys Threat Research has come across a ransomware family known as Phobos, impersonating VX-Underground. Phobos ransomware has been knocking on our door since early 2019 and is often seen being distributed via stolen Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. Strongly...

Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they...

Online Retailers: Five Threats Targeting Your Business This Holiday Shopping Season

As the holiday season approaches, a palpable sense of joy and anticipation fills the air. Twinkling lights adorn homes, the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafts through the kitchen, and the sound of laughter and carolers' melodies resonate on frosty evenings. It's a time when families come...

Using ChatGPT to cheat on assignments? New tool detects AI-generated text with amazing accuracy

ChatGPT and similar Large language models (LLMs) can be used to write texts about any given subject, at any desired length at a speed unmatched by humans. So it's not a surprise that students have been using them to "help" write assignments, much to the dismay of teachers who prefer to receive...

Decoupling for Security

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of both worlds. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. Here we outline....

Testing with OpenAPI Specifications

The 2023 SANS Survey on API Security (Jun-2023) found that less than 50 percent of respondents have API security testing tools in place. Even fewer (29 percent) have API discovery tools. Wallarm delivers both these capabilities via our single, integrated App and API Security platform. Wallarm has.....

Trellix 2024 Threat Predictions

Trellix 2024 Threat Predictions By Trellix · October 30, 2023 Introduction This last year we have seen upheaval across the cybersecurity landscape. The need for effective, worldwide threat intelligence continues to grow as geopolitical and economic developments create an increasingly...

Trellix 2024 Threat Predictions

Trellix 2024 Threat Predictions By Trellix · October 30, 2023 Introduction This last year we have seen upheaval across the cybersecurity landscape. The need for effective, worldwide threat intelligence continues to grow as geopolitical and economic developments create an increasingly...

CVE-2023-38907

An issue in TPLink Smart Bulb Tapo series L530 before 1.2.4, L510E before 1.1.0, L630 before 1.0.4, P100 before 1.5.0, and Tapo Application 2.8.14 allows a remote attacker to replay old messages encrypted with a still valid session...