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December 23, 2021 | Ofer Caspi

Executive summary Malicious actors always try to be creative and find new ways ...

Global outbreak of Log4Shell

December 16, 2021 | Santiago Cortes

Executive summary Log4Shell is a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) ...

Trustwave's Action Response: Multiple Log4j Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

December 10, 2021 | SpiderLabs Researcher

Updates: Dec. 29: Updated to cover three additional CVEs: CVE-2021-4104, ...

Law Enforcement Collaboration Has Eastern-European Cybercriminals Questioning Whether There Is A Safe Haven Anymore

December 08, 2021 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

Through the active Dark Web research that Trustwave SpiderLabs conducts for its ...

ModSecurity DoS Vulnerability in JSON Parsing (CVE-2021-42717)

November 24, 2021 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

ModSecurity is an open-source WAF engine maintained by Trustwave. This blog ...

LevelBlue Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

November 11, 2021 | Ofer Caspi

Executive summary LevelBlue Labs™ has found new malware written in the open ...

CrypKey License Service Allows Privilege Escalation

November 04, 2021 | Martin Rakhmanov

Overview CrypKey (https://www.crypkey.com/) is a third-party licensing service ...

Introducing D-Modem: A software SIP modem

October 29, 2021 | Dan Bastone

Connect to dialup modems over VoIP using SIP, no modem hardware required.

Code similarity analysis with r2diaphora

October 27, 2021 | Fernando Dominguez

Executive summary Binary diffing, a technique for comparing binaries, can be a ...

CVE-2021-1825: Inadequate Input Encoding in WebKit

October 25, 2021 | Alex Camboe

In August 2020, Stroz Friedberg discovered and reported to Apple an issue ...

BlackByte Ransomware – Pt. 1 In-depth Analysis

October 15, 2021 | Rodel Mendrez, Lloyd Macrohon

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BlackByte Ransomware – Pt 2. Code Obfuscation Analysis

October 15, 2021 | Rodel Mendrez, Lloyd Macrohon

In Part 1 of our BlackByte ransomware analysis, we covered the execution flow ...

A Handshake with MySQL Bots

October 14, 2021 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk

Edge Services It’s well known that we just don’t put services or devices on the ...

Missing Critical Vulnerabilities Through Narrow Scoping

September 16, 2021 | John Anderson

The typical process when scoping a penetration test is to get a list of targets ...

How Lack of Awareness and Clinging to the Past Threaten Your Networks

September 09, 2021 | John Anderson

The security landscape is always changing. New features are coming out all the ...

TeamTNT with new campaign aka "Chimaera"

September 08, 2021 | Ofer Caspi

Executive summary LevelBlue Labs™ has discovered a new campaign by threat group ...

Cobalt Strike Configuration Extractor and Parser

August 27, 2021 | Noah Rubin

Cobalt Strike Beacons continue to be the norm for persistence, lateral ...

PRISM attacks fly under the radar

August 23, 2021 | Fernando Dominguez

LevelBlue SpiderLabs has recently discovered a cluster of Linux ELF executables ...

Patch Tuesday, August 2021

August 10, 2021 | Karl Sigler

Here we are in August and it's Patch Tuesday once more. It's another light ...

SQL Injection in WordPress Plugins: ORDER and ORDER BY as Overlooked Injection Points

August 06, 2021 | Martin Vierula

Trustwave SpiderLabs recently undertook a survey of some 100 popular WordPress ...

Telegram Self-Destruct? Not Always

August 05, 2021 | Reegun Jayapaul

Summary Secret-Chats in Telegram use end-to-end encryption, which is meant for ...

New sophisticated RAT in town: FatalRat analysis

August 02, 2021 | Ofer Caspi

This blog was written by Ofer Caspi and Javi Ruiz.

Vulnerability in ON24 Plugin for macOS Shares More Than Just Your Screen

July 21, 2021 | Martin Rakhmanov

ON24 presenter mode requires you to install a plugin that is used to share your ...

Compromising a Network Using an "Info" Level Finding

July 21, 2021 | John Anderson

Anyone who has ever read a vulnerability scan report will know that scanners ...

Patch Tuesday, July 2021

July 13, 2021 | Karl Sigler

We're a little over halfway through the year now as July's Patch Tuesday is ...

ModSecurity v3 and URI Fragments

July 08, 2021 | Martin Vierula

ModSecurity is an open-source WAF engine maintained by Trustwave. This blog ...

Diving Deeper Into the Kaseya VSA Attack: REvil Returns and Other Hackers Are Riding Their Coattails

July 07, 2021 | Rodel Mendrez, Nikita Kazymirskyi

On, July 2nd, a massive ransomware attack was launched against roughly 60 ...

Unauthenticated XXE in Multiple Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioner Control Systems

July 06, 2021 | Howard McGreehan

CVE-2021-20595: Unauthenticated XXE affecting multiple Mitsubishi Electric Air ...