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  • A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 2)

    A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 2)

    Introduction This is the second part of the “A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Application” blog series. In the first part, we learned about macOS applications and their structure and...

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  • CyberArk Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management – again.

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  • A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 1)

    A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 1)

    Introduction As many of us know, there are a lot of guides and information on penetration testing applications on Windows and Linux. Unfortunately, a step-by-step guide doesn’t exist in the macOS...

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  • IMPACT 2023 Panel - Measure and Deliver Value with Identity Security51:29

    IMPACT 2023 Panel - Measure and Deliver Value with Identity Security

    Join Accenture, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG on this panel during IMPACT 2023, CyberArk's annual customer and industry conference, around measure and deliver value with Identity Security.

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  • CyberArk 2023 Identity Security Threat Landscape Infographic

    CyberArk 2023 Identity Security Threat Landscape Infographic

    Identity-led cybersecurity exposure is on the rise.

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  • CyberArk 2023 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report

    CyberArk 2023 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report

    AI Tool Use, Employee Churn and Economic Pressures Fuel the Identity Attack Surface

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  • Analyzing 3 Offensive AI Attack Scenarios

    Analyzing 3 Offensive AI Attack Scenarios

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern society at unprecedented speed. It can do your homework, help you make better investment decisions, turn your selfie into a Renaissance painting...

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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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  • 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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