Real-life social engineering. Another two days in tweets

What happens in a real life social engineering exercise? There’s a lot of planning and preparation that goes on behind the scenes: it’s not a matter of turning up to a site and ‘winging it’! I live tweeted an exercise a little while back, to give a flavour of a real task in real time. For reasons...

These Hacks Require Literally Sneaking in the Backdoor

After slipping past security, picking a backdoor lock and gaining access to a company’s inner sanctum, a skilled hacker can cause mayhem. They can plant malware on a network, grab physical files and walk out the front door with a donut pilfered from the employee break room. Meet the world of a...

Rethinking Responsibilities and Remedies in Social-Engineering Attacks

In the pantheon of catchy cybersecurity slogans that should never have caught on, two about social engineering spring to mind almost immediately: “End users are the weakest link” and “attackers only have to be lucky once; defenders have to be lucky all the time.” Both of those statements have bee...

From BinDiff to 0day: Internet Explorer UAF vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The last 6 months, I to Microsoft the report the IE browser in aUAF（after the release of the reused vulnerability vulnerability is the official positioning of the severity levels, numberedCVE-2019-1208, Microsoft in 9 monthsPatch Tuesdayfixes this vulnerability. I byBinDiff a binary code analysis...

Real-life social engineering. Two days in tweets

This is the write-up of my live tweets while on a recent social engineering engagement. It’s all available on my feed @ghostie I did this because I wanted to share what it's like to prep for, and work through a job, warts and all. If you can take anything away, to enhance your technique, or defen...

North Korean Spear-Phishing Attack Targets U.S. Firms

Researchers have uncovered an ongoing, sophisticated malware campaign aiming at U.S.-based targets with an interest in nuclear deterrence, North Korea’s nuclear submarine program and North Korean economic sanctions. The campaign, which researchers from Prevailion call “Autumn Aperture” and link...

The Role of Human Error in Cyberattacks

One surefire way to guarantee cybersecurity is to restrict access to or stay off the internet. Unfortunately, this isn’t a feasible option, since the internet is such a crucial part of day-to-day life. As such, companies work to protect their data with endpoint security, selecting reputable web...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows Server are both products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows is an operating system for personal devices.Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. Windows Remote Desktop Client is one of the Windows remote desktop client programs. A remo...

Strangest Phishing Lures of 2019: From Divorce Papers to Real Estate Decoys

Hackers aren’t just targeting infrastructure anymore – they’re actively playing on the emotions of people, whether it’s a consumer who desperately wants to lose weight to an employee who is nervous he will lose his job if he doesn’t do exactly what his boss says. That’s according to Proofpoint’s...

GitLab Input Validation Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-20441)

GitLab is a Ruby on Rails-developed, self-hosted, Git version control system project repository application from the American company GitLab. The program can be used to access a project's file contents, commit history, bug lists, and more. A security vulnerability exists in GitLab Community and...

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows Remote Desktop Client when a user connects to a malicious server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the computer of the connecting client. An attacker could then install programs;...

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows Remote Desktop Client when a user connects to a malicious server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the computer of the connecting client. An attacker could then install programs;...

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows Remote Desktop Client when a user connects to a malicious server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the computer of the connecting client. An attacker could then install programs;...

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows Remote Desktop Client when a user connects to a malicious server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the computer of the connecting client. An attacker could then install programs;...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-37189)

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows Server are both products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows is an operating system for personal devices.Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. Windows Remote Desktop Client is one of the Windows remote desktop client programs. A remo...

CVE-2019-6795

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social...

CVE-2019-6795

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6795

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social...

Input validation

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social...

CVE-2019-6795

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It has Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to a User. IDN homographs and RTLO characters are rendered to unicode, which could be used for social...