Risk Fact #2: Weaponized Vulnerabilities Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...

Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining

Exposed Kubernetes K8s clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset ti...

PrivKit - Simple Beacon Object File That Detects Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Caused By Misconfigurations On Windows OS

PrivKit is a simple beacon object file that detects privilege escalation vulnerabilities caused by misconfigurations on Windows OS. PrivKit detects following misconfigurations Checks for Unquoted Service Paths Checks for Autologon Registry Keys Checks for Always Install Elevated Registry Keys...

Risk Fact #1: Cloud Migration Exploitation Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...

Who Protects PII – Consumers or Companies?

Introduction Did you know that as a consumer, 25% of the apps you engage with are collecting your Personally Identifiable Information PII? Do you know why they are collecting it or where they are storing it? Also, do you realize as a company, General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fines can reac...

The vulnerability of the Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) for Windows operating systems allows a perpetrator to circumvent security restrictions.

The vulnerability of the Active Directory Federation Services AD FS for Windows operating systems is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to bypass security restrictions remotely...

ZeusCloud - Open Source Cloud Security

ZeusCloud is an open source cloud security platform. Discover, prioritize, and remediate your risks in the cloud. Build an asset inventory of your AWS accounts. Discover attack paths based on public exposure, IAM, vulnerabilities, and more. Prioritize findings with graphical context. Remediate...

Alert: New Electromagnetic Attacks on Drones Could Let Attackers Take Control

Drones that don't have any known security weaknesses could be the target of electromagnetic fault injection EMFI attacks, potentially enabling a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution and compromise their functionality and safety. The research comes from IOActive, which found that it is...

Beyond Asset Discovery: How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation

As the business environment becomes increasingly connected, organizations' attack surfaces continue to expand, making it challenging to map and secure both known and unknown assets. In particular, unknown assets present security challenges related to shadow IT, misconfigurations, ineffective scan...

Introducing AI-guided Remediation for IaC Security / KICS

While the use of Infrastructure as Code IaC has gained significant popularity as organizations embrace cloud computing and DevOps practices, the speed and flexibility that IaC provides can also introduce the potential for misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities. IaC allows organizations to...

Introducing AI-guided Remediation for IaC Security / KICS

While the use of Infrastructure as Code IaC has gained significant popularity as organizations embrace cloud computing and DevOps practices, the speed and flexibility that IaC provides can also introduce the potential for misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities. IaC allows organizations to...

Webinar - Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface

Believe it or not, your attack surface is expanding faster than you realize. How? APIs, of course! More formally known as application programming interfaces, API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs an ideal candidate for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer...

Webinar - Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface

Believe it or not, your attack surface is expanding faster than you realize. How? APIs, of course! More formally known as application programming interfaces, API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs an ideal candidate for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer...

How to Improve Your API Security Posture

APIs, more formally known as application programming interfaces, empower apps and microservices to communicate and share data. However, this level of connectivity doesn't come without major risks. Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in APIs to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or even ta...

Wiz for CSPM: A modern approach to cloud security

Reduce noise of traditional CSPM tools with context-based deep risk assessment, enabling you to prioritize the misconfigurations that put your environment at critical risk...

Kubestroyer - Kubernetes Exploitation Tool

Kubestroyer Kubestroyer aims to exploit Kubernetes clusters misconfigurations and be the swiss army knife of your Kubernetes pentests About The Project Kubestroyer is a Golang exploitation tool that aims to take advantage of Kubernetes clusters misconfigurations. The tool is scanning known...

Legion Malware Upgraded to Target SSH Servers and AWS Credentials

An updated version of the commodity malware called Legion comes with expanded features to compromise SSH servers and Amazon Web Services AWS credentials associated with DynamoDB and CloudWatch. "This recent update demonstrates a widening of scope, with new capabilities such the ability to...

The vulnerability of the Azure Service Connector allows attackers to circumvent existing security restrictions and enhance their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Azure Service Connector relates to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass existing security restrictions and gain increased privileges...

Packagist Repository Hacked: Over a Dozen PHP Packages with 500 Million Installs Compromised

PHP software package repository Packagist revealed that an "attacker" gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages with over 500 million installs to date. "The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced the package description in composer.json wit...

Modernizing Vulnerability Management: The Move Toward Exposure Management

Managing vulnerabilities in the constantly evolving technological landscape is a difficult task. Although vulnerabilities emerge regularly, not all vulnerabilities present the same level of risk. Traditional metrics such as CVSS score or the number of vulnerabilities are insufficient for effectiv...