Why a proactive detection and incident response plan is crucial for your organization

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Matt Suiche, Director...

Why a proactive detection and incident response plan is crucial for your organization

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Matt Suiche, Director...

The nature of cyberincidents in 2022

Kaspersky offers various services to organizations that have been targeted by cyberattackers, such as incident response, digital forensics, and malware analysis. In our annual incident response report, we share information about the attacks that we investigated during the reporting period. Data...

The Velociraptor 2023 Annual Community Survey

By Dr. Mike Cohen & Carlos Canto Velociraptor is an open-source project led and shaped by the community. Over the years, Velociraptor has become a real force in the field of DFIR, making it an obvious choice for many operational situations. Rapid7 is committed to continue making Velociraptor the...

DFIR via XDR: How to expedite your investigations with a DFIRent approach

Rapid technological evolution requires security that is resilient, up to date and adaptable. In this article, we will cover the transformation in the field of DFIR digital forensics and incident response in the last couple years, focusing on the digital forensics' aspect and how XDR fits into the...

DFIR via XDR: How to expedite your investigations with a DFIRent approach

Rapid technological evolution requires security that is resilient, up to date and adaptable. In this article, we will cover the transformation in the field of DFIR digital forensics and incident response in the last couple years, focusing on the digital forensics' aspect and how XDR fits into the...

Intro to forensics in the cloud: A container was compromised. What’s next?

Learn what tools and data sources you need to use in cloud forensics investigation and how they come into practice in a real-life example...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.8 Available Now

A New Client-Server Communication Protocol, VFS GUI, and More Performance Upgrades Make This The Fastest and Most Scalable Velociraptor Yet Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.8 of Velociraptor—an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that...

Selecting the right MSSP: Guidelines for making an objective decision

Managed Security Service Providers MSSPs have become an increasingly popular choice for organizations nowadays following the trend to outsource security services. Meanwhile, with the growing number of MSSPs in the market, it can be difficult for organizations to determine which provider will fit ...

Finding forensics breadcrumbs in Android image storage

Introduction Our digital forensics work is wide and varied. Often there’s very little that we can talk about in the public domain, so when I find something that we can share I get a bit excited. In this post I’ll be talking about image scanning apps, and how to reverse engineer them to pinpoint...

SUSE CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

SolarWinds Security Event Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SolarWinds Security Event Manager SolarWinds SEM is an American SolarWinds Inc. for forensics and troubleshooting, as well as a tool to help you manage log data. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SolarWinds Security Event Manager versions prior to 2022.4, which stems from the...

An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers

The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy: Googles Chrome, Apples Safari, nonprofit Firefox and others allow the company, TrustCor Systems, to act as whats known as a root certificate authority, a powerful spot in the internets...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.6: Multi-Tenant Mode and More Let You Dig Deeper at Scale Like Never Before

Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.6 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. After several months of development and testing, we are excited to share its powerfu...

Uber Blames LAPSUS$ Hacking Group for Recent Security Breach

Uber on Monday disclosed more details related to the security incident that happened last week, pinning the attack on a threat actor it believes is affiliated to the notorious LAPSUS$ hacking group. "This group typically uses similar techniques to target technology companies, and in 2022 alone ha...

VeloCON 2022: Digging Deeper Together!

September 15, 2022 | Live at 9 am EDT | Virtual and Free Join the open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR community for a day-long, virtual summit as we DIG DEEPER TOGETHER! Have you ever wanted to share your passion and interest in Velociraptor with the rest of the community?...

CVE-2022-1522

The Cognex 3D-A1000 Dimensioning System in firmware version 1.0.3 3354 and prior is vulnerable to CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs, which allows an attacker to create false logs that show the password as having been changed when it is not, complicating forensics...

Input validation

The Cognex 3D-A1000 Dimensioning System in firmware version 1.0.3 3354 and prior is vulnerable to CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs, which allows an attacker to create false logs that show the password as having been changed when it is not, complicating forensics...

Hackers Breach LastPass Developer System to Steal Source Code

Password management service LastPass confirmed a security incident that resulted in the theft of certain source code and technical information. The security breach is said to have occurred two weeks ago, targeting its development environment. No customer data or encrypted passwords were accessed,...

Anti-tracking tool tells you if you're being followed

If there is one thing we know about the people around us, even the perfect strangers, it's that they almost all have smartphones. And those smartphones aren't merely passive receivers, they're broadcasting constantly, looking for things you might want to connect to. Advertisers have exploited the...