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Kernel Buffer Overflow in Trusteer Rapport for MacOS

December 20, 2018 | Neil Kettle

Trustwave recently reported a Kernel based vulnerability in a driver bundled ...

Rise of the Webminers

December 19, 2018 | Oren Mashal

About a year ago webminers began to appear on more and more websites. It was ...

Hacking Online Coupons

December 18, 2018 | Lena Frid

We all shop online. How many times, just before placing an online order, have ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2018

December 11, 2018 | Karl Sigler

The last Patch Tuesday of 2018 is here and we are easing into the New Year with ...

Magecart - An overview and defense mechanisms

December 06, 2018 | Victor Hora

Summary This blog post offers insight into Magecart and offers advice on how to ...

Scavenger: Post-Exploitation Tool for Collecting Vital Data

December 05, 2018 | Philip Pieterse

‘Scavenger’ - definition [noun]: a person who searches for and collects ...

Announcing ModSecurity version 2.9.3

December 05, 2018 | Victor Hora

We are happy to announce ModSecurity version 2.9.3!

Decoding Hancitor Malware with Suricata and Lua

November 27, 2018 | Bryant Smith

Many types of malware send and receive data via HTTP. They may either be ...

Exploring and Modifying Android and Java Applications for Security Research

November 27, 2018 | Martin Rakhmanov

Sometimes pentesters and security researchers need to modify existing Java ...

Taking Advantage of AJAX for Account Enumeration

November 27, 2018 | Manuel Nader

Context AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. It’s a set of web ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2018

November 27, 2018 | Karl Sigler

The second to last Patch Tuesday of 2018 is here with patches for 55 CVEs. This ...

Sheepl : Automating People for Red and Blue Tradecraft

November 27, 2018 | Matt Lorentzen

Whilst there is a wealth of information out there about how to build ...

ModSecurity v3.0.3: What To Expect

November 27, 2018 | Felipe "Zimmerle" Costa

At precisely 155 commits ahead of the latest version, ModSecurity version 3.0.3 ...

Demystifying Obfuscation Used in the Thanksgiving Spam Campaign

November 26, 2018 | Rodel Mendrez

During Thanksgiving week, we noticed this quite unusual XML-format MS Office ...

Hacker's Wish Come True After Infecting Visitors of Make-A-Wish Website With Cryptojacking

November 19, 2018 | Simon Kenin

After coming back from a vacation, the first thing to do is catch up with what ...

DOH! DNS Over HTTPS Poses Possible Risks to Enterprises

October 26, 2018 | David Middlehurst

Introduction David Middlehurst of Trustwave SpiderLabs presented at the first ...

10 Years On – A Look Back at MS08-067

October 23, 2018 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

It has been ten years since the release of MS08-067. Unlike many of the other ...

Red Alert v2.0: Misadventures in Reversing Android Bot Malware

October 22, 2018 | Rodel Mendrez

(Analysis by Rodel Mendrez and Lloyd Macrohon)

SingHealth Data Breach – An Analytical Perspective

October 22, 2018

Executive Summary On July 20th 2018, the Singapore authorities announced1 that ...

Unpatched Remote Code Execution in Reprise License Manager

October 22, 2018

During a recent penetration testing engagement, I came across a particularly ...

WD My Cloud EX2 Serves Your Files to Anyone

October 22, 2018 | Martin Rakhmanov

Western Digital's My Cloud is a popular storage/backup device that lets users ...

Underground Code of Honor – Part 1 of 3

October 22, 2018 | SpiderLabs Researcher

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as ...

TWSL2011-004: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ZyXEL ZyWALL 70 Firewall

October 22, 2018 | Josh Grunzweig

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details ...

The Underground Job Market – Part 2 of 3

October 18, 2018 | SpiderLabs Researcher

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2018

October 09, 2018 | Karl Sigler

October's Patch Tuesday is here and with it come patches for 49 CVEs and a ...

Credential Leak Flaws in Windows PureVPN Client

September 27, 2018

Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) can bring many advantages, particularly ...

CVE-2018-16962: Webroot SecureAnywhere macOS Kernel Level Memory Corruption

September 13, 2018 | Neil Kettle

Trustwave recently discovered a locally exploitable issue in the macOS version ...

Patch Tuesday, September 2018

September 04, 2018 | Karl Sigler

September's Patch Tuesday is here with patches for 61 CVEs and two roll up ...