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Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming of The New npm GitHub Worm
December 03, 2025 | Karl Sigler
Sha1-Hulud is back with a new evolution of its supply-chain attack that targets ...
SpiderLabs IDs New Banking Trojan Distributed Through WhatsApp
November 19, 2025 | Nathaniel Morales, John Basmayor, and Nikita Kazymirskyi
LevelBlue SpiderLabs researchers have recently identified a banking Trojan we ...
Bolstering Cybersecurity Resilience in the Public Sector
October 29, 2025
With digital transformation continuing unabated, the prevalence of legacy ...
Data in the Dark: The Public Sector on the Dark Web
October 15, 2025
The dark web serves as a refuge for threat actors to gather intel, trade ...
Notepad++ DLL Hijacking (CVE-2025-56383): CVSS 8.4 or CVSS 0.0?
October 03, 2025
A vulnerability on a popular source-code editor has been recently released ...
Understanding DocumentDB’s Network Security Trade-Offs: The VPC Challenge
August 05, 2025 | Selam Gebreananeya
AWS DocumentDB by default is securely isolated within a VPC, unreachable from ...
Lights Out and Stalled Factories: Using M.A.T.R.I.X to Learn About Modbus Vulnerabilities
May 06, 2025 | Karl Biron
Let’s explore the critical role of Modbus in energy and manufacturing systems, ...
Bring Your Own Installer: Bypassing EDR Through Agent Version Change Interruption
May 05, 2025 | John Ailes and Tim Mashni
Bring Your Own Installer is a technique which can be used by threat actors to ...
A Deep-Rooted Infestation: How the ILOVEYOU Bug Continues its Legacy in Modern Worms
May 02, 2025 | Pauline Bolaños
A quarter century ago, a former computer science student from the Philippines ...
Agent In the Middle – Abusing Agent Cards in the Agent-2-Agent (A2A) Protocol To ‘Win’ All the Tasks
April 21, 2025 | Tom Neaves
I think you’ll agree with me that growth in the AI landscape is pretty full-on ...
Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 2
March 20, 2025 | Karl Biron
In Part 1 of Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your ...
2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Top Cyber Threats Targeting the Manufacturing Sector
February 26, 2025
2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report Unveils Top Cyber Threats to Manufacturing: ...
Beyond the Chatbot: Meta Phishing with Fake Live Support
February 04, 2025 | Mike Casayuran and John Kevin Adriano
In a previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog, we explored how cybercriminals ...
Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases
January 27, 2025 | Karl Biron
In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the ...
CVE-2024-55591: Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy Zero Day
January 14, 2025
In late November and December 2024, Arctic Wolf observed evidence of a mass ...
The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security
January 09, 2025 | Rodel Mendrez
Trustwave SpiderLabs first blogged about Magecart back in 2019; fast forward ...
Emerging Risks in Third-Party AI Solutions and How to Help Address Them
December 04, 2024 | Scott Swanson and Kris Kimmerle
As the cyber threat landscape changes due the introduction of new threat ...
Lessons from a Honeypot with US Citizens’ Data
November 13, 2024 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi
Prior to last week’s US Presidential Election, the Trustwave SpiderLabs team ...
The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass
November 11, 2024 | Colin Meek
The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass is a tactic used in cyber attacks to evade ...
Hooked by the Call: A Deep Dive into The Tricks Used in Callback Phishing Emails
October 21, 2024 | Katrina Udquin
Introduction Previously, Trustwave SpiderLabs covered a massive fake order spam ...
How Threat Actors Conduct Election Interference Operations: An Overview
October 18, 2024 | Pauline Bolaños
The major headlines that arose from the three most recent US presidential ...
Bypassing EDR through Retrosigned Drivers and System Time Manipulation
September 13, 2024 | Zachary Reichert
The Retrosigned Driver EDR Bypass is a novel modification of a technique ...
Distributed Denial of Truth (DDoT): The Mechanics of Influence Operations and The Weaponization of Social Media
September 13, 2024 | Jose Tozo
With the US election on the horizon, it’s a good time to explore the concept of ...
Exploring an Experimental Windows Kernel Rootkit in Rust
September 09, 2024
Around two years ago, memN0ps took the initiative to create one of the first ...
Hypervisor Development in Rust for Security Researchers (Part 1)
September 06, 2024
In the ever-evolving field of information security, curiosity and continuous ...
Deep Dive and Simulation of a MariaDB RCE Attack: CVE-2021-27928
August 16, 2024 | Karl Biron
In early 2021, a new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-27928, was ...
Cloudy with a Chance of Hackers: Protecting Critical Cloud Workloads
July 22, 2024 | David Broggy
If you've been following along with David's posts, you'll have noticed a ...
Responding to the CrowdStrike Outage: Implications for Cyber and Technology Professionals
July 19, 2024
This client alert provides an overview of the current global IT outage that is ...