Gus Simmons’s Memoir

Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty verification. His work is cited extensively in Applied Cryptography. He has written a memoir of growing up dirt-poor...

CVE-2022-24409

Dell BSAFE SSL-J contains remediation for a covert timing channel vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Only customers with active BSAFE maintenance contracts can receive details about this vulnerability. Public disclosure of the vulnerability...

CVE-2022-24409

Dell BSAFE SSL-J contains remediation for a covert timing channel vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Only customers with active BSAFE maintenance contracts can receive details about this vulnerability. Public disclosure of the vulnerability...

CVE-2022-24409

CVE-2022-24409 concerns Dell BSAFE SSL-J, which reportedly contains a covert timing-channel vulnerability. The affected product is Dell BSAFE SSL-J, with details restricted to customers holding active BSAFE maintenance contracts; public disclosure of vulnerability specifics is planned for a later...

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group's Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat APT with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA. Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous...

PT-2022-16678 · Dell · Bsafe Ssl-J

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Dell BSAFE SSL-J affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a covert timing channel that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Details about this issue are currently restrict...

CVE-2022-24409

Dell BSAFE SSL-J contains remediation for a covert timing channel vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Only customers with active BSAFE maintenance contracts can receive details about this vulnerability. Public disclosure of the vulnerability...

Exploit for Cross-site Scripting in Xenforo

CVE-2021-43032 In XenForo ≤ 2.2.7, a threat actor with access...

PortBender - TCP Port Redirection Utility

PortBender is a TCP port redirection utility that allows a red team operator to redirect inbound traffic destined for one TCP port e.g., 445/TCP to another TCP port e.g., 8445/TCP. PortBender includes an aggressor script that operators can leverage to integrate the tool with Cobalt Strike. Howeve...

Vulnerabilities fixed in FortiSandbox

Due to a session expiration vulnerability in FortiSandbox allows a malicious party to reuse the non-expired session IDs of an administrator reuse to obtain information about other users. obtain. CVE-2020-29012 Due to a vulnerability in the input validation of the sniffer interface of FortiSandbox...

Hackers Posed as Aerobics Instructors for Years to Target Aerospace Employees

An Iranian cyberespionage group masqueraded as an aerobics instructor on Facebook in an attempt to infect the machine of an employee of an aerospace defense contractor with malware as part of a years-long social engineering and targeted malware campaign. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint...

Ferocious Kitten: 6 years of covert surveillance in Iran

Ferocious Kitten is an APT group that since at least 2015 has been targeting Persian-speaking individuals who appear to be based in Iran. Although it has been active for a long time, the group has mostly operated under the radar and has not been covered by security researchers to the best of our...

Live Cybersecurity Webinar — Deconstructing Cobalt Strike

Organizations' cybersecurity capabilities have improved over the past decade, mostly out of necessity. As their defenses get better, so do the methods, tactics, and techniques malicious actors devise to penetrate their environments. Instead of the standard virus or trojan, attackers today will...

Apple’s M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw

The covert channel bug is harmless, but it demonstrates that even new CPUs have mistakes in them...

DNS-Black-Cat(DBC) - Multi Platform Toolkit For An Interactive DNS Shell Commands Exfiltration, By Using DNS-Cat You Will Be Able To Execute System Commands In Shell Mode Over DNS Protocol

Multi-platform toolkit for an interactive C2C DNS shell, by using DNS-Black-Cat, you will be able to execute system commands in shell mode over a fully encrypted covert channel. Server ported as a python script, which acts as DNS server with required functionalities to provide interactive shell...

Operation TunnelSnake

Windows rootkits, especially those operating in kernel space, are pieces of malware infamous for their near absolute power in the operating system. Usually deployed as drivers, such implants have high privileges in the system, allowing them to intercept and potentially tamper with core I/O...

New Pingback Malware Using ICMP Tunneling to Evade C&C Detection

Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a novel malware that uses a variety of tricks to stay under the radar and evade detection, while stealthily capable of executing arbitrary commands on infected systems. Called 'Pingback,' the Windows malware leverages Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP tunneli...

Dumping LSASS in memory undetected using MirrorDump

Introduction As I am sure some of you are aware from the occasional ramblings and screenshots on twitter, I am a big fan of .NET based offensive tooling. Not because it’s trendy or cool, but because of the development speed and ease of testing and debugging in comparison to C/C++. A month or so a...

MyBB 1.8.25 - Poll Vote Count SQL Injection

Exploit Title: MyBB 1.8.25 - Poll Vote Count SQL Injection Exploit Author: SivertPL [email protected] Date: 20.03.2021 Description: Lack of sanitization in the "votes" parameter in "Edit Poll" causes a second-order semi-blind SQL Injection that is triggered when performing a "Move/Copy"...

Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks

A new research has yielded yet another means to pilfer sensitive data by exploiting what's the first "on-chip, cross-core" side-channel attack targeting the ring interconnect used in Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake processors. Published by a group of academics from the University of Illinois at...