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  • How Dark Web Credentials Lead to a Software Supply Chain Attack55:51

    How Dark Web Credentials Lead to a Software Supply Chain Attack

    2023 Attack and Defend Virtual Series Session One

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  • CyberArk Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management – again.

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  • How to Write a PoC for an Uninitialized Smart Contract Vulnerability in BadgerDAO Using Foundry

    How to Write a PoC for an Uninitialized Smart Contract Vulnerability in BadgerDAO Using Foundry

    TL;DR In this post, we’re going to learn how Foundry can be used to write a proof of concept (PoC) for uninitialized smart contract vulnerabilities. We will take a look at and exploit a simple...

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  • White Phoenix: Beating Intermittent Encryption

    White Phoenix: Beating Intermittent Encryption

    Recently, a new trend has emerged in the world of ransomware: intermittent encryption, the partial encryption of targeted files. Many ransomware groups, such as BlackCat and Play, have adopted...

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  • Fantastic Rootkits and Where to Find Them (Part 2)

    Fantastic Rootkits and Where to Find Them (Part 2)

    Know Your Enemy In the previous post (Part 1), we covered several rootkit technique implementations. Now we will focus on kernel rootkit analysis, looking at two case studies of rootkits found in...

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  • Breaking Docker Named Pipes SYSTEMatically: Docker Desktop Privilege Escalation – Part 2

    Breaking Docker Named Pipes SYSTEMatically: Docker Desktop Privilege Escalation – Part 2

    In the previous blog post, we described how the Docker research started and showed how we could gain a full privilege escalation through a vulnerability in Docker Desktop. In this follow-up blog...

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  • The (Not so) Secret War on Discord

    The (Not so) Secret War on Discord

    CyberArk Malware Research Team Abstract CyberArk Labs discovered a new malware called Vare that is distributed over the popular chatting service, Discord. Vare has been used to target new malware...

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  • Persistence Techniques That Persist

    Persistence Techniques That Persist

    Abstract Once threat actors gain a foothold on a system, they must implement techniques to maintain that access, even in the event of restarts, updates in credentials or any other type of change...

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  • Phishing as a Service

    Phishing as a Service

    Introduction Everyone knows what phishing is. It has been around for more than two decades. Now it seems that phishing is more accessible than before. This blog covers how malicious actors can...

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  • The Linux Kernel and the Cursed Driver

    The Linux Kernel and the Cursed Driver

    Introduction NTFS is a filesystem developed by Microsoft that was introduced in 1993. Since then, it has become the primary filesystem for Windows. In recent years, the need for an NTFS...

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  • Breaking Docker Named Pipes SYSTEMatically: Docker Desktop Privilege Escalation – Part 1

    Breaking Docker Named Pipes SYSTEMatically: Docker Desktop Privilege Escalation – Part 1

    Everything started when I was researching Windows containers. It required installing Docker Desktop for Windows, and I couldn’t help but notice that there were many Docker processes. Since some of...

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  • Inglourious Drivers – A Journey of Finding Vulnerabilities in Drivers

    Inglourious Drivers – A Journey of Finding Vulnerabilities in Drivers

    TL;DR I discovered multiple bugs in OEM vendors for peripheral devices, which affected many users of these OEM vendors (Razer, EVGA, MSI, AMI). Many of the vulnerabilities originated in a...

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  • Securing Application Identities in 2023: Five Trends And A Prediction47:51

    Securing Application Identities in 2023: Five Trends And A Prediction

    Join Kurt Sand, General Manager of DevSecOps at CyberArk, as he sits down with The Reg’s Tim Phillips to discuss the top emerging trends in the DevSecOps space, along with one big future prediction.

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  • Chatting Our Way Into Creating a Polymorphic Malware

    Chatting Our Way Into Creating a Polymorphic Malware

    Abstract ChatGPT took the world by storm being released less than two months ago, it has become prominent and is used everywhere, for a wide variety of tasks – from automation tasks to the...

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  • Six Takeaways from Recent Ransomware Attacks

    Six Takeaways from Recent Ransomware Attacks

    2022 ransomware attack learnings can inform 2023 cybersecurity strategies, helping organizations combat threats and reduce risk with greater confidence. The CyberArk 2022 Identity Security Threat...

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  • CyberArk Labs’ 2022 Threat Research in Review

    CyberArk Labs’ 2022 Threat Research in Review

    Cyber defenders need timely, accurate threat intelligence to protect their organizations. This is what drives our CyberArk Labs team to produce innovative research, expose new attack methods and...

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  • Revisiting Major 2022 Breaches and Cybersecurity Events

    Revisiting Major 2022 Breaches and Cybersecurity Events

    Before we ring in the new year, we’re reflecting on some of the biggest cybersecurity events of 2022. It’s been a stressful 12 months for security teams, to say the least. Many open cybersecurity...

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  • What I Learned from Analyzing a Caching Vulnerability in Istio

    What I Learned from Analyzing a Caching Vulnerability in Istio

    TL;DR Istio is an open-source service mash that can layer over applications. Studying CVE-2021-34824 in Istio will allow us to dive into some concepts of Istio and service meshes in general. We...

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  • Decentralized Identity Attack Surface – Part 2

    Decentralized Identity Attack Surface – Part 2

    Introduction This is the second part of our Decentralized Identity (DID) blog series. In case you’re not familiar with DID concepts, we highly encourage you to start with the first part. This time...

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  • 2023 Cybersecurity Predictions from CyberArk Labs

    2023 Cybersecurity Predictions from CyberArk Labs

    It’s been an eventful 2022 and, based on what our CyberArk Labs team is observing, 2023 will introduce yet another chapter of cybersecurity threats and challenges, along with some new...

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  • Decentralized Identity Attack Surface – Part 1

    Decentralized Identity Attack Surface – Part 1

    Introduction Who are you? That’s a hard question to answer. Many philosophers have been fascinated with this question for years. Who are you in cyberspace? Your digital identity is comprised of...

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