Pen-Strategist: A Reasoning Framework for Penetration Testing Strategy Formation and Analysis

Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals exacerbates this challenge. While...

Genesis: Evolving Attack Strategies for LLM Web Agent Red-Teaming

As large language model LLM agents increasingly automate complex web tasks, they boost productivity while simultaneously introducing new security risks. However, relevant studies on web agent attacks remain limited. Existing red-teaming approaches mainly rely on manually crafted attack strategies...

The adventures of an extroverted cyber nerd and the people Talos helps to fight the good fight

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I am unbelievably lucky to do the work that I do. My title is technically 'Senior Security Strategist'. It's a very fancy title, but basically: I get to research threats with my colleagues and friends to keep people safe here at Talo...

STRATEGIST still can assign a higher percentage into the withdrawMaxLoss, which may lead to a very higher risk for users to lose the principle sent as a collateral

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Within the ReaperVaultV2updateWithdrawMaxLoss above, the user who has a STRATEGIST role still can assign a higher percentage i.e. 99% = 9999 into the withdrawMaxLoss. This lead to a very higher risk for users to lose the principle sent as a collateral if...

Race between governance and strategist on other token earned

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is a race between the strategist and the governance to report other tokens earned by the strategy. Indeed the strategist can trigger the function 1 by calling the strategy while the governance can call 2. Both these functions can report earn tokens...

Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca: Lock and Code S02E06

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs. In addition, we speak to Point3 Security chief strategist Chloé Messdaghi, HaveIBeenPwned founder Troy Hunt, and We Hack Purple founder and CEO Tanya Janca about security fatigue. Security fatigue is...

[Webinar] Oy Vey, We Hired a Large, Hairy Hacker…

It's not every day that one of the best-known independent cybersecurity individuals joins a cybersecurity company. The two are generally on opposite sides of the coin, with little crossover. After all, they're usually concerned with different parts of the cybersecurity puzzle – one providing...

Cb Defense’s ‘Streaming Ransomware Prevention’ Stops Bad Rabbit in Its Tracks

On October 24, a large-scale ransomware campaign spread across Europe, in campaigns closely mimicking the NotPetya attacks from earlier this year. Bad Rabbit appeared to infect machines via a drive-by-download that prompted the user to download a fake Adobe Flash installer. No exploits were used...

Bugging the Bug Market

PUNTA CANA–The Microsoft bug bounty program, started last year as a way to encourage researchers to develop new offensive and defensive techniques, has been a success so far and the company is looking for new ways to expand it in the future. Katie Moussouris, the security strategist at Microsoft...

Consumers Should Clean Up Their Act on Personal Security

The growing use of social networking sites is leaving PC inadvertently open to identity thieves warned Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security. Speaking at the RSA Europe Conference, Thompson said that people were unaware just how many clues they left for fraudsters. He said...