Common Files Detection

Scanner has detected common sensitive files on the remote web server. Web applications are often made up of multiple files and directories. It is possible that over time some files may become unreferenced unused by the web application and forgotten about by the administrator or developer. Because...

Widespread Email Scam Targets Github Developers with Dimnie Trojan

Open source developers who use the popular code-sharing site GitHub were put on alert after the discovery of a phishing email campaign that attempts to infect their computers with an advanced malware trojan. Dubbed Dimnie, the reconnaissance and espionage trojan has the ability to harvest...

Cisco IOx Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170118-ios)

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IOx Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view confidential information that is displayed without authenticating to the device. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted...

Cisco IOS and Cisco IOx Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOx Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view confidential information that is displayed without authenticating to the device. The vulnerability is due to lack of proper input validation of the...

Cisco Firepower Management Center Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center running FireSIGHT System software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view the Remote Storage Password. The vulnerability is due to improper masking of sensitive data in the HTTP response. An...

Deception Technology: Can It Detect Intruders Earlier in their Attack Chain?

Every infosec conference is chatting about the Attack Chain, a visual mapping of the steps an intruder must take to breach a network. If you can detect traces of an attack earlier, you not only have more time to respond, but can stop the unauthorized access to monetizable data and its exfiltratio...

Windows Anti Recon Tool: SAMRi10

Windows Anti Recon Tool “SAMRi10” tool is a short PowerShell PS script which alters remote SAM access default permissions on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2016. This hardening process prevents attackers from easily getting some valuable recon information to move laterally within their victim’s...

Ghosts in the Bank

It was a dark night. A car pulled up in the parking space next to me and quickly extinguished his lights. I looked out the my window and saw the driver. He gave me a quick nod and we exited our cars. Opening the trunk I pulled out my tools for the night. A backpack full of trash bags, a flash...

Cisco Nexus 9000 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the internal iptables configuration for local interfaces on the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access certain sensitive data. The attacker could use this information to conduct additional reconnaissance attacks. The vulnerabili...

Netsparker Web Scanner

A reconnaissance tool is designed to gather information from servers. Such scans might indicate an attempt to disclose sensitive information. Remote attackers can use Netsparker to detect vulnerabilities on a target server...

A Modular Recon Tool: RECON

Low Hanging Fruit: a Modular Recon Tool for Penetration Testing Reconnaissance is the absolute most important step in a penetration test. A good recon of the target could net you some vital information and low hanging fruit. Thus RECON was created. A set and forget type of recon scanner. No need ...

Hmap Web-Server Fingerprint Tool

A reconnaissance tool is designed to gather information from servers. Such scans might indicate an attempt to disclose sensitive information. Remote attackers can use Hmap web application fingerprint tool to detect vulnerabilities on a target server...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager JSON Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the application programming interface API web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform privilege escalation on the affected device. The attacker can escalate privileges to...

DNS reconnaissance tool: Fierce

Fierce is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space Fierce is a semi-lightweight scanner that helps locate non-contiguous IP space and hostnames against specified domains. It’s really meant as a pre-cursor to nmap, unicornscan, nessus, nikto, etc, since all of those require...

Windows File Shares Reconnaissance: SMBCrunch

One of the most time consuming tasks during a security auditing process is diving into file-systems and shares, attempting to identify any potentially sensitive information. SMBCrunch helps penetration testers to quickly identify Windows File Shares on a network, perform a recursive directory...

99 Problems but Two-Factor Ain’t One

Two-factor authentication is a best practice for securing remote access, but it is also a Holy Grail for a motivated red team. Hiding under the guise of a legitimate user authenticated through multiple credentials is one of the best ways to remain undetected in an environment. Many companies rega...

Cross Platform DNS Recon Tool: Sonar

Sonar is a reconnaissance tool for enumerating sub domains. It was modeled after Knock and DNSRecon though explicitly not written in Python to avoid the limitations of threading and dependencies. Sonar is statically compiled meaning it has no dependencies and even dynamically builds the default...

Five-Year 'Dust Storm' APT Campaign Seen Targeting Japanese Critical Infrastructure

A five-year campaign primarily focused on extracting sensitive information from Japanese oil, gas, and electric utilities was outlined by researchers on Tuesday. Referred to as Operation Dust Storm .PDF by researchers at Cylance, the campaign has managed to stay persistent over the years, and...

SimplyEmail - Email Recon Made Fast And Easy, With A Framework To Build On

What is the simple email recon tool? This tool was based off the work of theHarvester and kind of a port of the functionality. This was just an expansion of what was used to build theHarvester and will incorporate his work but allow users to easily build Modules for the Framework. Which I felt wa...

Kali Linux: Kill Chain

Kill Chain for Kali Linux 2.0 is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependencies: Tor — For the console build in anonymizer. Set — Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...