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WordPress Security Research: A Beginner’s Series

Learn How To Find WordPress Vulnerabilities Step-by-Step Welcome to the inaugural post of our WordPress Security Research Beginners Series! With the success of the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program, we wanted to provide emerging vulnerability researchers, and experienced Bug Bounty Hunters, with a...

WordPress Security Research Series: WordPress Request Architecture and Hooks

Welcome to Part 1 of the WordPress Security Research Beginner Series! If you haven’t had a chance, please review the series introduction blog post for more details on the goal of this series and what to expect. Before diving into the security features of WordPress, its critical to understand the...

The Windows Registry Adventure #3: Learning resources

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero When tackling a new vulnerability research target, especially a closed-source one, I prioritize gathering as much information about it as possible. This gets especially interesting when it's a subsystem as old and fundamental as the Windows registry...

War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age

A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the first time. It could change how justice is enacted on an international scale...

Malicious code in npm-research-package-1 (npm)

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MAL-2024-2768 Malicious code in npm-research-package-1 (npm)

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Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research

Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model LLM to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. "The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between an AI agent and a target...

Probllama: Ollama Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-37032) – Overview and Mitigations

Wiz Research discovered CVE-2024-37032, an easy-to-exploit Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the open-source AI Infrastructure project Ollama...

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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,...

Using LLMs to Exploit Vulnerabilities

Interesting research: "Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities." Abstract: LLM agents have become increasingly sophisticated, especially in the realm of cybersecurity. Researchers have shown that LLM agents can exploit real-world vulnerabilities when given a description of the...

CVE-2024-36115

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2024-06-16 12:49:56+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://github.com/dzikoysk/reposilite/security/advisories/GHSA-9w8w-34vr-65j2 2025-01-22 17:00:51+00:00| seen| https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/attacks-on-maven-proxy-repositorie...

Exploit for Use of Hard-coded Credentials in Veeam Recovery_Orchestrator

CVE-2024-29855 Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Authentication Bypa...

Ukraine Police Arrest Suspect Linked to LockBit and Conti Ransomware Groups

The Cyber Police of Ukraine has announced the arrest of a local man who is suspected to have offered their services to LockBit and Conti ransomware groups. The unnamed 28-year-old native of the Kharkiv region allegedly specialized in the development of crypters to encrypt and obfuscate malicious...

Driving forward in Android drivers

Posted by Seth Jenkins, Google Project Zero Introduction Android's open-source ecosystem has led to an incredible diversity of manufacturers and vendors developing software that runs on a broad variety of hardware. This hardware requires supporting drivers, meaning that many different codebases...

Facebook, Meta, Apple, Amazon Most Impersonated in Phishing Scams

Feeling phished? Don't be a victim! Learn from Mailsuite's research which popular brands scammers impersonate the most including surprising ones! and how to identify these cunning attacks...

Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale

Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System DNS on a global scale since at least June 2023. The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and Dave Mitchell, operates from the...

Update: CVE-2024-4577 quickly weaponized to distribute “TellYouThePass” Ransomware

Introduction Recently, Imperva Threat Research reported on attacker activity leveraging the new PHP vulnerability, CVE-2024-4577. From as early as June 8th, we have detected attacker activity leveraging this vulnerability to deliver malware, which we have now identified to be a part of the...