Detecting Aimbot Cheaters in MOGs

Multiplayer Online Games have become a multibillion dollar industry in the entertainment sector. However, the presence of cheaters undermines the experience of honest players and devalues the effort of game developers, as it directly affects player retention, competitive integrity, the legitimacy...

Python's PyPI Reveals Its Secrets

GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets in...

Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Intrusion Detection

A few weeks ago, the 32nd edition of RSA, one of the world's largest cybersecurity conferences, wrapped up in San Francisco. Among the highlights, Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant at Google Cloud, presented a retrospective on the state of cybersecurity. During his keynote, Mandia stated: "There are...

Honeybits - A Simple Tool Designed To Enhance The Effectiveness Of Your Traps By Spreading Breadcrumbs & Honeytokens Across Your Systems

A simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs & honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots. Author: Adel "0x4D31" Karimi. Background The problem with the traditional implementation of honeypot...