Threat Research Blog
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Read ArticleHow 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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CyberArk Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management – again.
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Read ArticleWhite 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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Read ArticleFantastic 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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Read ArticleBreaking 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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Read ArticleThe (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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Read ArticlePersistence 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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Read ArticlePhishing 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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Read ArticleThe 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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Read ArticleBreaking 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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Read ArticleInglourious 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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Read ArticleChatting 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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Read ArticleWhat 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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Read ArticleDecentralized 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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Read ArticleDecentralized 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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Read ArticleFantastic Rootkits: And Where to Find Them (Part 1)
Introduction In this blog series, we will cover the topic of rootkits — how they are built and the basics of kernel driver analysis — specifically on the Windows platform. In this first part, we...
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Read ArticleColorful Vulnerabilities
Our love for gaming alongside finding bugs led us back to the good ol’ question: Is it true that the more RGB colors you have (except for your gaming chair, of course), the more skill...
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Read ArticleUnderstanding Windows Containers Communication
Several years ago, when I spoke with people about containers, most of them were not familiar with the term. Today, it is unquestionably one of the most popular technologies being used in DevOps...
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Read ArticleTrust Me, I’m a Robot: Can We Trust RPA With Our Most Guarded Secrets?
In our complicated and challenging enterprise world, trust is not just important — it’s a vital link in the long chain of enterprise success. If you’ve ever managed people who didn’t trust one...
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Read ArticleInside Matanbuchus: A Quirky Loader
An in-depth analysis of Matanbuchus loader’s tricks and loading techniques Matanbuchus is a Malware-as-a-Service loader that has been sold on underground markets for more than one year....
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Read ArticleThat Pipe is Still Leaking: Revisiting the RDP Named Pipe Vulnerability
On January 11, 2022, we published a blog post describing the details of CVE-2022-21893, a Remote Desktop vulnerability that we found and reported to Microsoft. After analyzing the patch that fixed...
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