Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Fly High in the Sky With This New Cloud Exploit! This week, a new module was added that takes advantage of both authentication bypass and command injection in certain versions of Western Digital's MyCloud hardware. Submitted by community member Erik Wynter, this module gains access to the target,...

Previewing Talos at BlackHat 2023

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. The time has come once again for all of us well, not me specifically but lots of other Talos people to descend on Las Vegas for Hacker Summer Camp. Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the ne...

PTP at DEF CON 31 2023

Come and see us at the Aerospace Village, at Caesars Forum. Aerospace Village Fri 11th to Sun 13th Activity Take off in an A320 with hacked engine performance calculator. Then try to land it again. Fri 11th August 5:00 PM Pen Test Partners Power Hour We’ll be talking about: Hacking Electronic...

n00b’s guide to DEF CON. Surviving the Matrix of the underground

Ah, DEF CON. The worlds largest hacker convention. A beacon for the diverse spectrum of cyber security enthusiasts. From code-cracking challenges to the infamous Wall of Sheep, the event is a hive of activities and opportunities. But before we dive into the world of hackerdom, lets get one thing...

eurasia-con.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3364310

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Meet 'Jack' from Romania! Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware

The identity of the second threat actor behind the Golden Chickens malware has been uncovered courtesy of a "fatal" operational security blunder, cybersecurity firm eSentire said. The individual in question, who lives in Bucharest, Romania, has been given the codename Jack. He is one of the two...

kernel: denial of service in tipc_conn_close

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con-sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con-sock-sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel...

AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year

At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack. The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications. Participants wi...

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel between where con is allocated and con->sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con->sock->sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel.

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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1382

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con-sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con-sock-sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel...

AZL-26315 CVE-2023-1382 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.111.1-1

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con-sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con-sock-sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1382

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con-sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con-sock-sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel...

SUSE CVE-2021-40540

ulfiusurilogger in Ulfius HTTP Framework before 2.7.4 omits coninfo initialization and a coninfo-request NULL check for certain malformed HTTP requests...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 4

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory, how to extract file system data from the device, and how to modify the data we've extracted. In this post, we'll cover how to gain root access...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...

[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 2

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. Last week, we covered the basics of the exercise and achieving access to flash memory. In this post, we'll cover how to extract partition data. Extracting partition data The next step in our hands-on IoT hacking...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1

Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...

DEF CON 30. Hacking EFBs. Engine Performance

At DEF CON 30 this year we demonstrated some vulnerabilities in electronic flight bags and the potential impact on flight safety. There’s plenty more detail of EFB security issues here. As part of the Aerospace Village at DEF CON 30, we invited people to fly our flight sim under instruction from...

Black Hat USA 2022 and DEF CON 30

Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. The DEF CON theme was a "Hacker Homecoming", and it really was a fun one. Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. Many of the...