Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/09/2024

Black Hat & DEF CON Hopefully folks were able to catch our Rapid7 researchers @zeroSteiner & Jack Heysel show off the Metasploit 6.4's features, focusing on combinations that allow for new, streamlined attack workflows at Black Hat. If not they will also be demoing at DEF CON tomorrow in room W30...

The top stories coming out of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference

Over the next two weeks, two of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world will take place in Las Vegas: Black Hat and DEF CON. That means product announcements, buzzwords and stories about "X smart appliance could burn your house down!" or something like that. Over the next two weeks, Il...

Windows Downgrade Attack Risks Exposing Patched Systems to Old Vulnerabilities

Microsoft said it is developing security updates to address two loopholes that it said could be abused to stage downgrade attacks against the Windows update architecture and replace current versions of the operating system files with older versions. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/02/2024

Metasploit goes to Hacker Summer Camp Next week, Metasploit will have demos at both Black Hat and DEF CON where the latest functionality from this year will be presented. The Black Hat demo will be on Thursday the 8th from 10:10 to 11:25 and the DEF CON demo will be on Saturday the 10th from 12:0...

Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I had a significant amount of FOMO last week seeing everyone out in Vegas. I was happy to not get conference crud sickness, but it seems like I missed a great time otherwise. But, as anyone who works with me could guess, I was followi...

NoFilter Attack: Sneaky Privilege Escalation Method Bypasses Windows Security

A previously undetected attack method called NoFilter has been found to abuse the Windows Filtering Platform WFP to achieve privilege escalation in the Windows operating system. "If an attacker has the ability to execute code with admin privilege and the target is to perform LSASS Shtinkering,...

Multiple Flaws in CyberPower and Dataprobe Products Put Data Centers at Risk

Multiple security vulnerabilities impacting CyberPower's PowerPanel Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Management DCIM platform and Dataprobe's iBoot Power Distribution Unit PDU could be potentially exploited to gain unauthenticated access to these systems and inflict catastrophic damage in...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Fly High in the Sky With This New Cloud Exploit! This week, a new module was added that takes advantage of both authentication bypass and command injection in certain versions of Western Digital's MyCloud hardware. Submitted by community member Erik Wynter, this module gains access to the target,...

Previewing Talos at BlackHat 2023

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. The time has come once again for all of us well, not me specifically but lots of other Talos people to descend on Las Vegas for Hacker Summer Camp. Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the ne...

PTP at DEF CON 31 2023

Come and see us at the Aerospace Village, at Caesars Forum. Aerospace Village Fri 11th to Sun 13th Activity Take off in an A320 with hacked engine performance calculator. Then try to land it again. Fri 11th August 5:00 PM Pen Test Partners Power Hour We’ll be talking about: Hacking Electronic...

n00b’s guide to DEF CON. Surviving the Matrix of the underground

Ah, DEF CON. The worlds largest hacker convention. A beacon for the diverse spectrum of cyber security enthusiasts. From code-cracking challenges to the infamous Wall of Sheep, the event is a hive of activities and opportunities. But before we dive into the world of hackerdom, lets get one thing...

AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year

At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack. The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications. Participants wi...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 4

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory, how to extract file system data from the device, and how to modify the data we've extracted. In this post, we'll cover how to gain root access...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...

[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 2

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. Last week, we covered the basics of the exercise and achieving access to flash memory. In this post, we'll cover how to extract partition data. Extracting partition data The next step in our hands-on IoT hacking...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1

Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...

DEF CON 30. Hacking EFBs. Engine Performance

At DEF CON 30 this year we demonstrated some vulnerabilities in electronic flight bags and the potential impact on flight safety. There’s plenty more detail of EFB security issues here. As part of the Aerospace Village at DEF CON 30, we invited people to fly our flight sim under instruction from...

Black Hat USA 2022 and DEF CON 30

Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. The DEF CON theme was a "Hacker Homecoming", and it really was a fun one. Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. Many of the...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...