Password usage analysis of brute force attacks on honeypot servers

As Microsoft’s Head of Deception, Ross Bevington is responsible for setting up and maintaining honeypots that look like legitimate systems and servers. Honeypot systems are designed to pose as an attractive target for attackers. Sometimes they are left vulnerable to create a controllable and safe...

More Stealthier Version of BrazKing Android Malware Spotted in the Wild

Banking apps from Brazil are being targeted by a more elusive and stealthier version of an Android remote access trojan RAT that's capable of carrying out financial fraud attacks by stealing two-factor authentication 2FA codes and initiating rogue transactions from infected devices to transfer...

Defend Against Cyber Espionage Attacks

Explore Trend Micro’s latest research into Void Balaur, a prolific cybermercenary group, to learn how to defend against attacks launched by this growing group of threat actors...

A review of Azure Sphere vulnerabilities: Unsigned code execs, kernel bugs, escalation chains and firmware downgrades

Summary of all the vulnerabilities reported by Cisco Talos in Microsoft Azure Sphere By Claudio Bozzato and Lilith . In May 2020, Microsoft kicked off the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, a three-month initiative aimed at finding bugs in Azure Sphere. In the first three months,... This i...

Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2021

We’re excited to invite our community of infosec analysts and engineers to the second annual InfoSec Jupyterthon taking place on December 2-3, 2021. This is an online event organized by our friends in the Open Threat Research Forge, together with folks from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Cente...

CVE-2021-22951

Unauthorized individuals could view password protected files using viewinline in Concrete CMS previously concrete 5 prior to version 8.5.7. Concrete CMS now checks to see if a file has a password in viewinline and, if it does, the file is not rendered.For version 8.5.6, the following mitigations...

CVE-2021-22951

CVE-2021-22951 affects Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) prior to 8.5.7. Unauthorized individuals could view password-protected files via the view_inline functionality, exposing protected content. The root cause was that view_inline could render a file even if it had a password. Mitigations imple...

New Rowhammer Technique

Rowhammer is an attack technique involving accessing -- thats "hammering" -- rows of bits in memory, millions of times per second, with the intent of causing bits in neighboring rows to flip. This is a side-channel attack, and the result can be all sorts of mayhem. Well, there is a new enhancemen...

N-Day Exploit Protection Strategies

Over two years, Trend Micro Research scoured the underground forums for insight into the N-day exploit market. Discover their findings and how you can secure your organization against exploits...

By the Numbers: The State of Security in eCommerce

The ongoing global pandemic has accelerated eCommerce growth and pushed more consumers online. More consumers mean a larger threat landscape and ensure that cybersecurity issues remain a significant, ongoing challenge for the retail industry. Based on a 12-month analysis by Imperva Research Labs,...

Update now! Netgear vulnerability patched

Netgear has released a fix for a vulnerability on several of their product models. The affected product models include extenders, routers, air cards, and modems. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at GRIMM, but prior to the planned disclosure date, Netgear released a patch that fixed...

FBI Email Hoaxer ID’ed by the Guy He Allegedly Loves to Torment

Vinny Troia, the cybersecurity researcher mentioned in a fake alert gushed out to thousands of people from the FBI’s own email system on Friday night, has fingered the guy who allegedly pulled off the exploit. Register now for our LIVE event! Troia – white hat threat hunter, cybercrime investigat...

GHSA-X7J7-QP7J-HW3Q Cross-site scripting (XSS) from writer field content in the site frontend

Impact Kirby's writer field stores its formatted content as HTML code. Unlike with other field types, it is not possible to escape HTML special characters against cross-site scripting XSS attacks, otherwise the formatting would be lost. Cross-site scripting XSS is a type of vulnerability that...

Protecting today’s web applications requires more than a firewall

The way organizations build web applications has changed dramatically over the last several years. As a result, many organizations are considering additional security strategies to augment the Web Application Firewall WAF on which they have relied to protect critical digital business operations...

Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network

Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...

New 'Moses Staff' Hacker Group Targets Israeli Companies With Destructive Attacks

A new politically-motivated hacker group named "Moses Staff" has been linked to a wave of targeted attacks targeting Israeli organizations since September 2021 with the goal of plundering and leaking sensitive information prior to encrypting their networks, with no option to regain access or...

Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

ChaosDB explained: Azure's Cosmos DB vulnerability walkthrough

This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers...

Microsoft OMI Management Interface Authentication Bypass Exploit

This Metasploit module demonstrates that by removing the authentication exchange, an attacker can issue requests to the local OMI management socket that will cause it to execute an operating system command as the root user. This vulnerability was patched in OMI version 1.6.8-1 released September...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for vulnerability research and exploitation. It contains a collection of vulnerable applications and services, along with exploits and tools to demonstrate their vulnerabilities. The primary vulnerability targeted by this repository is not explicitly stated, b...