Verizon DBIR: Web App Attacks and Security Errors Surge

Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, released Tuesday, analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches to sniff out the top causes of data breaches over the past year. While cyber-espionage attacks and malware decreased, other trends, such as security “errors” cloud...

GitLab: Full Read SSRF on Gitlab's Internal Grafana

Apparently, Grafana is bundled with Gitlab by default. So the grafana instance that is accessible via /-/grafana/is vulnerable to the SSRF outlined below. Summary By chaining together some redirects and a URL decoding bug, it is possible to achieve a full-read, unauthenticated, SSRF from your...

Podcast: Shifting Cloud Security Left With Infrastructure-as-Code

Companies are increasingly dealing with a slew of security and compliance issues across cloud services and containers – from AWS to Azure to Google Cloud. Infrastructure-as-Code IaC security capabilities can help companies shift their cloud security “left” to improve developer productivity, avoid...

Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story

ARCHIVED STORY Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · APR 30, 2020 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. In collaboration with Northwave As we highlighted previously across two blogs, targeted ransomware attacks have increased massively over the past...

Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story

ARCHIVED STORY Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · APR 30, 2020 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. In collaboration with Northwave As we highlighted previously across two blogs, targeted ransomware attacks have increased massively over the past...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Multiple NETGEAR Products

The NETGEAR R7800, among others, is a wireless router from NETGEAR. A security vulnerability exists in several NETGEAR products that stems from a misconfiguration of security settings. No details of the vulnerability are available at this time...

CVE-2017-18746

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by incorrect configuration of security settings. This affects EX3700 before 1.0.0.64, EX3800 before 1.0.0.64, EX6000 before 1.0.0.24, EX6130 before 1.0.0.16, EX6400 before 1.0.1.60, EX7000 before 1.0.0.50, EX7300 before 1.0.1.60, and WN2500RPv2 before 1.0.1.46...

Cloud Transformation Is The Biggest Opportunity To Fix Security

This overview builds on the recent report from Trend Micro Research on cloud-specific security gaps, which can be found here. Don’t be cloud-weary. Hear us out. Recently, a major tipping point was reached in the IT world when more than half of new IT spending was on cloud over non- cloud. So rath...

Secure ElasticSearch, Kafka & Other Microservices with Qualys Cloud Platform

In this era of Digital Transformation, microservices are rapidly gaining popularity within continuously deployed systems. Organizations have moved away from the rigid monolithic architectures to more flexible ones that are based on microservices. Lots of organizations handling large amounts of...

Next-Gen Ransomware Packs a 'Human' Punch, Microsoft Warns

Researchers are warning that “human operated” ransomware campaigns are growing more sophisticated, adopting new infection tactics and lateral movement techniques that traditional defense teams aren’t equipped to handle. Researchers said that “auto-spreading” ransomware – like WannaCry and NotPety...

UPDATE: Electronegativity v1.4.0

Electronegativity v1.4.0 was released some time ago. My first post about this open source Electron Security tool was titled – Electronegativity: An Open Source Electron Security Auditor which contains several bug fixes and a new feature. What is Electronegativity? Electronegativity is an open...

SUDO_KILLER - A Tool To Identify And Exploit Sudo Rules' Misconfigurations And Vulnerabilities Within Sudo

Linux Privilege Escalation through SUDO abuse. If you like the tool and for my personal motivation so as to develop other tools please a +1 star The tool can be used by pentesters, system admins, CTF players, students, System Auditors and trolls :. INTRO WARNING: SUDOKILLER is part of the KILLER...

LoRaWAN for IoT: Beware Encryption Misconfigurations and Security Pitfalls

UPDATE The LoRaWAN protocol, which efficiently supports low-power wireless devices over wide area networks, has become standard in the world of the industrial internet of things IoT. One of its benefits is its support for end-to-end encryption. However, researchers are warning that while LoRaWAN...

Grouper2 - Find Vulnerabilities In AD Group Policy

What is it for? Grouper2 is a tool for pentesters to help find security-related misconfigurations in Active Directory Group Policy. It might also be useful for other people doing other stuff, but it is explicitly NOT meant to be an audit tool. If you want to check your policy configs against some...

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019 From massive credential spills on the Dark Web and hacked data to card-skimming and rich profiles exposed by way of cloud misconfigurations, 2019 was a notable year for data breaches. Big names like Capital One, Macy’s and Sprint were impacted, a...

CORStest - A Simple CORS Misconfiguration Scanner

A simple CORSmisconfiguration scanner Based on theresearch of James Kettle CORStest is a quick & dirty Python 2 tool to find Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS misconfigurations. It takes a text file as input which may contain a list of domain names or URLs. Currently, the following potential...

Detectify Asset Inventory and Monitoring

Continuing the topic about perimeter services. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think that the external perimeter services should be considered as a fully functional replacement for custom Vulnerability Management processes. I would rather see their results as an additional feed showing the proble...

How to Maximize Your WAF

Whenever new WAF clients are brought aboard, there’s a procedure they must follow in order to properly configure their servers to work behind the WAF protection. You can find an example of the Imperva Cloud WAF onboarding procedure here. Sometimes, however, customers can miss important procedures...

Corsy - CORS Misconfiguration Scanner

Corsy is a lightweight program that scans for all known misconfigurations in CORS implementations. Usage Using Corsy is pretty simple python corsy.py -u https://example.com A delay between consecutive requests can be specified with -d option. Note: This is a beta version, features such as JSON...

NetApp SnapManager for Oracle Information Disclosure Vulnerability

NetApp SnapManager for Oracle is an administrative tool for Oracle databases from NetApp, USA. The product provides features such as enforcing policy-driven data management, scheduling and creating routine database backups. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in NetApp SnapManager for...