Threat Research Blog

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...

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...

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...

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....

In this blog post, we are going to look at the Kubernetes agent, kubelet (see Figure 1), which is responsible for the creation of the containers inside the nodes and show how it can be...

Introduction With fileless malware becoming a ubiquitous feature of most modern Red Teams, knowledge in the domain of memory stealth and detection is becoming an increasingly valuable skill to add...

TL;DR Cloud technologies are ubiquitous and most organizations rely on cloud vendors to provide them with critical services and computing workloads. This ecosystem makes organizations deeply...

Introduction With fileless malware becoming a ubiquitous feature of most modern Red Teams, knowledge in the domain of memory stealth and detection is becoming an increasingly valuable skill to add...

Introduction With fileless malware becoming a ubiquitous feature of most modern Red Teams, knowledge in the domain of memory stealth and detection is becoming an increasingly valuable skill to add...

For anyone who may not be familiar, Windows AppLocker is an application whitelisting technology that allows administrators to control which executable files are allowed to be executed. With...

As a penetration tester, my mission is to find vulnerabilities. To sharpen my skills and to stay up-to-date with new technologies, I spend my free time hacking on numerous bug bounty programs on...

A few months ago, I was working on research that involved spanning up and down multiple virtual machines in AWS and used AWS CLI in order to manage them. I decided to make a small...