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DOM-Based Extension Clickjacking Exposes Popular Password Managers to Credential and Data Theft
Popular password manager plugins for web browsers have been found susceptible to clickjacking security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal account credentials, two-factor authentication 2FA codes, and credit card details under certain conditions. The technique has been dubbed Documen...
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Nakasone tried to thread the needle in a politically fraught moment while hinting at major changes for the tech community around the corner...
The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that's stood for 15 years...
CloudRecon - Finding assets from certificates
CloudRecon Finding assets from certificates! Scan the web! Tool presented @DEFCON 31 Install You must have CGO enabled, and may have to install gcc to run CloudRecon sudo apt install gcc go install github.com/g0ldencybersec/CloudRecon@latest Description CloudRecon CloudRecon is a suite of tools f...
There’s One Last Gift Under the Tree, It’s Hands-On IoT!
It’s the holiday season and since we’re in a giving mood we thought we’d surprise our loyal readers with a fun, hands-on hardware exercise to enjoy during some well-earned downtime. But first, a little background. Every year Rapid7 has a pretty solid presence at DefCon in Las Vegas. This year was...
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 security vulnerabilities
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...