Cyber Security of Mega Events: a Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- a 45 Days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls

Mega events such as the Olympics, World Cup tournaments, G-20 Summit, religious events such as MahaKumbh are increasingly digitalized. From event ticketing, vendor booth or lodging reservations, sanitation, event scheduling, customer service, crime reporting, media streaming and messaging on...

Toward an Intent-Based and Ontology-Driven Autonomic Security Response in Security Orchestration Automation and Response

Modern Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response SOAR platforms must rapidly adapt to continuously evolving cyber attacks. Intent-Based Networking has emerged as a promising paradigm for cyber attack mitigation through high-level declarative intents, which offer greater flexibility and...

The Hitchhiker'S Guide to Efficient, End-To-End, and Tight DP Auditing

This paper systematizes research on auditing Differential Privacy DP techniques, aiming to identify key insights into the current state of the art and open challenges. First, we introduce a comprehensive framework for reviewing work in the field and establish three cross-contextual desiderata tha...

Devil'S Hand: Data Poisoning Attacks to Locally Private Graph Learning Protocols

Graph neural networks GNNs have achieved significant success in graph representation learning and have been applied to various domains. However, many real-world graphs contain sensitive personal information, such as user profiles in social networks, raising serious privacy concerns when graph...

Are Trees Really Green? A Detection Approach of IoT Malware Attacks

Nowadays, the Internet of Things IoT is widely employed, and its usage is growing exponentially because it facilitates remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision making, especially in the healthcare and industrial sectors. However, IoT devices remain vulnerable due to the...

Exploit for Missing Authorization in Gitlab

CVE-2023-5612 – GitLab SSRF via Webhook URL PoC & Analysis...

Evaluating AI Cyber Capabilities with Crowdsourced Elicitation

As AI systems become increasingly capable, understanding their offensive cyber potential is critical for informed governance and responsible deployment. However, it's hard to accurately bound their capabilities, and some prior evaluations dramatically underestimated them. The art of extracting...

CVE-2024-55603

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. In affected versions sessions are still usable even though their lifetime has exceeded. Kanboard implements a cutom session handler app/Core/Session/SessionHandler.php, to store the session data in a database...

A Critical Evaluation of Defenses against Prompt Injection Attacks

Large Language Models LLMs are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, and several defenses have recently been proposed, often claiming to mitigate these attacks successfully. However, we argue that existing studies lack a principled approach to evaluating these defenses. In this paper, we argue...

SoK: Timeline Based Event Reconstruction for Digital Forensics: Terminology, Methodology, and Current Challenges

Event reconstruction is a technique that examiners can use to attempt to infer past activities by analyzing digital artifacts. Despite its significance, the field suffers from fragmented research, with studies often focusing narrowly on aspects like timeline creation or tampering detection. This...

Exploit for Protection Mechanism Failure in 7-Zip

7-Zip-CVE-2025-0411-POC CVE-2025-0411 Details "This vuln...

CVE-2024-54001 Kanboard allows a persistent HTML injection site scripting in settings page date format

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. HTML can be injected and stored into the application settings section. The fields applicationlanguage, applicationdateformat,applicationtimezone and applicationtimeformat allow arbirary user input which is reflected...

CVE-2024-51748 Remote code execution through language setting in kanboard

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. An authenticated Kanboard admin can run arbitrary php code on the server in combination with a file write possibility. The user interface language is determined and loaded by the setting applicationlanguage in the...

From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code

Posted by the Big Sleep team Introduction In our previous post, Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models, we introduced our framework for large-language-model-assisted vulnerability research and demonstrated its potential by improving the state-of-the-a...

How to Plan and Prepare for Penetration Testing

As security technology and threat awareness among organizations improves so do the adversaries who are adopting and relying on new techniques to maximize speed and impact while evading detection. Ransomware and malware continue to be the method of choice by big game hunting BGH cyber criminals, a...

Pen testing cruise ships

New build ships contracted for build from 1st July 2024 must comply with IACS UR E26 & 27. What does this mean for assessing the cyber security of a cruise ship? What’s the risk profile? Cruise ships have a unique risk profile. This is due to the huge number of guests on board, highly complex...

Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Google Project Zero Introduction At Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering,...

FreeBSD : kanboard -- Project Takeover via IDOR in ProjectPermissionController (91929399-249e-11ef-9296-b42e991fc52e)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 91929399-249e-11ef-9296-b42e991fc52e advisory. [email protected] reports: Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the...

Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...

Transform Your Data Security Posture – Learn from SoFi's DSPM Success

As cloud technology evolves, so does the challenge of securing sensitive data. In a world where data duplication and sprawl are common, organizations face increased risks of non-compliance and unauthorized data breaches. Sentra's DSPM Data Security Posture Management emerges as a comprehensive...