Vulnerability Researchers: Check out The Critical Thinking Podcast

Today, The Wordfence Bug Bounty Program was featured on an episode of the Critical Thinking Podcast, a top resource and community for bug bounty researchers. Critical Thinking is a podcast focused on ethical hacking and security analysis and is described as a “by Hackers for Hackers podcast focus...

TripleCross - A Linux eBPF Rootkit With A Backdoor, C2, Library Injection, Execution Hijacking, Persistence And Stealth Capabilities.

TripleCross is a Linux eBPF rootkit that demonstrates the offensive capabilities of the eBPF technology. TripleCross is inspired by previous implant designs in this area, notably the works of Jeff Dileo at DEFCON 271, Pat Hogan at DEFCON 292, Guillaume Fournier and Sylvain Afchain also at DEFCON...

Playing Doom on a John Deere tractor with Sick Codes: Lock and Code S03E18

In 1993, the video game developers at id Software released Doom, a first-person shooter that placed a nameless protagonist into the fiery depths of hell, equipped with an arsenal of weapons to mow down imps, demons, lost souls, and the intimidating "Barons of Hell." In 2022, the hacker Sick Codes...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon 29 IoT Village, Part 4

The first 3 installments of our series on Rapid7's hands-on exercise from the IoT Village at this year's DefCon covered how to set up a UART header, how to determine UART status and baud rate, and how to log into single-user mode on the device. In this final post, we'll discuss how to gain full...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon 29 IoT Village, Part 3

In our first post in this series, we covered the setup of Rapid7's hands-on exercise at Defcon 29's IoT Village. Last week, we discussed how to determine the UART status of the header we created and how to actually start hacking on the IoT device. The goal in this next phase of the IoT hacking...

Using AI to Scale Spear Phishing

The problem with spear phishing is that it takes time and creativity to create individualized enticing phishing emails. Researchers are using GPT-3 to attempt to solve that problem: The researchers used OpenAIs GPT-3 platform in conjunction with other AI-as-a-service products focused on personali...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 5, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. We hope everyone is enjoying BlackHat and/or DEFCON this week, regardless of if you're attending virtually or in person. In case you missed any of our talks from BlackHat, you can check them out here, along... This is only the...

DEF CON 27 安全漏洞

DEF CON 27 is a fuzzy form of wireless communication: near field magnetic induction NFMI. A security vulnerability exists in DEF CON 27 that allows remote attackers to exploit a buffer overflow by sending oversized packets via the NFMI Near Field Magnetic Induction protocol...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, a virtual conference hosted by The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology SSIT, July 23-25, 2021. I’m speaking at DEFCON 29, August 5-8, 2021. Im speaking via Internet ...

Carnivore - Tool For Assessing On-Premises Microsoft Servers Authentication Such As ADFS, Skype, Exchange, And RDWeb

Carnivore is an assessment tool for Skype for Business, Exchange, ADFS, and RDWeb servers as well as some O365 functionality. Carnivore includes some new post-authentication Skype for Business functionality. Released as open source by NCC Group Plc - https://www.nccgroup.com/ Developed by Chris...

Researchers demonstrate hacking traffic lights to manipulate outcome

By Sudais Asif The researchers have shared their findings at DefCon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers demonstrate hacking traffic lights to manipulate outcome...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.9.0

Infection Monkey 1.9.0, the open source breach and attack simulation tool was released a few hours ago - just in time for BlackHat/DefCon 2020. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Updates include an expanded list of MITRE ATT&CK...

The Feds Want These Teams to Hack a Satellite—From Home

Meet the hackers who, this weekend, will try to commandeer an actual orbiter as part of a Defcon contest hosted by the Air Force and the Defense Digital Service...

Black Hat 2020: In a Turnaround, Voting Machine Vendor Embraces Ethical Hackers

Voting machine-maker Election Systems & Software ES&S has formally announced a vulnerability disclosure policy, Wednesday, during a Black Hat USA 2020 session. The move, which comes with the U.S. presidential elections looming in November, shows that voting-machine vendors are beginning to take t...

Defcon Is Canceled

For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off...

A week in security (September 23 – 29)

Last week on Labs, we highlighted an Emotet campaign using Snowden’s new book as a lure, discussed how 15,000 webcams are vulnerable to attack, how insurance data security laws skirt political turmoil, and how the new iOS exploit checkm8 allows permanent compromise of iPhones. Other cybersecurity...

Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities

The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security...

The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite

At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Arbitrary File Reading leads to RCE in the Pulse Secure SSL VPN on the https://██████ (███)

The Pulse Secure SSL VPN was found to be vulnerable to multiple issues, including pre-authentication arbitrary file reading CVE-2019-11510 and post-authentication command injection CVE-2019-11539. These vulnerabilities were discovered and disclosed by security researcher Orange Tsai. The...

Beers with Talos Ep. #60: Summer camp flashbacks and defining your intel

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 60 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Aug. 16, 2019 — The understatement of the day would be the guys were in some kind of mood when we recorded this...