Threat Research​

We hear about it all the time – data breaches that expose a company’s sensitive information. Nearly all of us have been warned that our passwords, email addresses or even credit cards have...

With so much of daily life tethered to digital communication and most of our important information residing in data clouds, we’ve all got a lot riding in this virtual atmosphere. So naturally, the...

In the past few weeks, we’ve been witnessing one of the most elaborate supply-chain attacks unfold with a threat actor that infected SolarWinds Orion source code and used the update process to get...

Introduction In the first part of my hardware hacking series, we discussed dumping firmware through the SPI flash chip. In this post, we will review the process of accessing and dumping the...

Introduction The topic of memory corruption exploits can be a difficult one to initially break in to. When I first began to explore this topic on the Windows OS I was immediately struck by the...

It’s hard to look forward to 2021 without considering the trends that shaped the generally unfavorite year known as #2020. History books will, of course, remember this year mostly for two major...

This post focuses on two vulnerabilities the CyberArk Labs team uncovered in the Intel Support Assistant that affected the millions of Windows machines that run this software. The first...

Have you ever wondered how the water supply gets into your home and to the taps? Honestly it may not be something you ever thought about. When receiving a system that works “out of the...

On October 21, the FBI held a press conference alerting U.S. citizens about new details concerning nation-state interference with the upcoming U.S. elections. According to news reports attackers...

The LoRaWAN protocol wirelessly connects battery-powered devices to the internet. Because of its ability to communicate long-range with little battery consumption, it is likely to be the network...

This blog entry is a special anti-malware edition showcasing how the most common bugs security products suffer from can allow a standard user to escalate into a privileged user. What we found...

I’m sure your network’s security is top-notch. You must have already taken care of micro-segmentations, strict firewall policies, and have some kind of EDR solution on the different endpoints. And...

With the introduction of more and more IOT and embedded devices in the market, hackers are starting to find firmware exploitation as a more viable mechanism for gaining access into networks and...

This blog is intended to be a warning bell and to draw attention to a potential security risk involved in running sensitive applications in the WSL (“Windows Subsystem Linux”) Windows utility. As...

Last February, I went to #OffensiveCon20 and, as you might expect, it was awesome. The talks were great, but the real gem was the CodeQL workshop that was held the second day of the event....