Cloud Investigation Automation Framework (CIAF): An AI-Driven Approach to Cloud Forensics

Large Language Models LLMs have gained prominence in domains including cloud security and forensics. Yet cloud forensic investigations still rely on manual analysis, making them time-consuming and error-prone. LLMs can mimic human reasoning, offering a pathway to automating cloud log analysis. To...

Hacking-Tools-Master

🔐 Hacking-Tools Master A modular & documented collection of P...

CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices

Today, CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices to address vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances ASA and Cisco Firepower devices. CISA has added vulnerabilities CVE-2025-20333link is external and CVE-2025-20362link is...

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-Dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - the 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge

The proliferation of sophisticated deepfake technology poses significant challenges to digital security and authenticity. Detecting these forgeries, especially across a wide spectrum of manipulation techniques, requires robust and generalized models. This paper introduces the Hierarchical Deep...

Enhancing Cyber Threat Hunting -- a Visual Approach with the Forensic Visualization Toolkit

In today's dynamic cyber threat landscape, organizations must take proactive steps to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. Cyber threat hunting is a proactive and iterative process aimed at identifying and mitigating advanced threats that may go undetected by traditional security measures. Rathe...

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Penetration Testing: Privilege Escalation & Post-Exploitation...

CyberSleuth: Autonomous Blue-Team LLM Agent for Web Attack Forensics

Large Language Model LLM agents are powerful tools for automating complex tasks. In cybersecurity, researchers have primarily explored their use in red-team operations such as vulnerability discovery and penetration tests. Defensive uses for incident response and forensics have received...

Thorium Platform Public Availability

Today, CISA, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, announced the public availability of Thoriumlink is external, a scalable and distributed platform for automated file analysis and result aggregation. Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams' capabilities by automating analysis workflows...

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Linux Privilege Escalation by injecting process possessing sudo tokens Inject process that have valid sudo token and activate our own sudo token Introduction We all noticed that sometimes sudo doesn't ask us for a password because he remembers us. How does he remember us and how does he identifie...

China's Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that's used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices. The hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket, is developed by a Chinese company named SDIC...

New Mobile Phone Forensics Tool

The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant. Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, "MFSocket", reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya Pico. The forensics tool works in tandem with a corresponding desktop software. Massistant gai...

GPU-Accelerated Interpretable Generalization for Rapid Cyberattack Detection and Forensics

The Interpretable Generalization IG mechanism recently published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security delivers state-of-the-art, evidence-based intrusion detection by discovering coherent normal and attack patterns through exhaustive intersect-and-subset operations-yet its...

Cloud Digital Forensic Readiness: an Open Source Approach to Law Enforcement Request Management

Cloud Forensics presents a multi-jurisdictional challenge that may undermines the success of digital forensic investigations DFIs. The growing volumes of domiciled and foreign law enforcement LE requests, the latency and complexity of formal channels for crossborder data access are challenging...

BlueRiSC WindowsSCOPE Cyber Forensics 数据伪造问题漏洞

BlueRiSC WindowsSCOPE Cyber Forensics is a GUI-based memory forensic capture and analysis toolkit from BlueRiSC. BlueRiSC WindowsSCOPE Cyber Forensics suffers from a Data Forgery Issue vulnerability that stems from a lack of constraints in the rv32im circuit, which could lead to a malicious prove...

Chances and Challenges of the Model Context Protocol in Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Large language models hold considerable promise for supporting forensic investigations, but their widespread adoption is hindered by a lack of transparency, explainability, and reproducibility. This paper explores how the emerging Model Context Protocol can address these challenges and support th...

Our capabilities. A story about what we can achieve

Introduction Over the years we have been fortunate to have been called upon to help with some challenging investigations. iPhone prize scams, ransomware attacks that weren't, aiding the Steele Dossier case, and even a fraudulent €14 million transfer. Here we've picked out the most interesting one...

CVE-2024-45412

Yeti bridges the gap between CTI and DFIR practitioners by providing a Forensics Intelligence platform and pipeline. Remote user-controlled data tags can reach a Unicode normalization with a compatibility form NFKD. Under Windows, such normalization is costly in resources and may lead to denial o...

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...

How Private Investigators Handle Digital Forensics?

The world we live in is packed with data. Texts, emails, social media posts, deleted files, you name…...

An In-Kernel Forensics Engine for Investigating Evasive Attacks

Over the years, adversarial attempts against critical services have become more effective and sophisticated in launching low-profile attacks. This trend has always been concerning. However, an even more alarming trend is the increasing difficulty of collecting relevant evidence about these attack...