Patch Tuesday, January 2019

Historically January has been a relatively light month for Patch Tuesday, but those days may be ...

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Spam Masters of Extortion, Illusion and Evasion

In 2018 we saw a rise in sextortion scams in which cyber-criminals notified their victims via email ...

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Kernel Buffer Overflow in Trusteer Rapport for MacOS

Trustwave recently reported a Kernel based vulnerability in a driver bundled along with IBM ...

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Rise of the Webminers

About a year ago webminers began to appear on more and more websites. It was popularized by ...

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Hacking Online Coupons

We all shop online. How many times, just before placing an online order, have you noticed the ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2018

The last Patch Tuesday of 2018 is here and we are easing into the New Year with only 40 CVEs to ...

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Magecart - An overview and defense mechanisms

Summary This blog post offers insight into Magecart and offers advice on how to protect your ...

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Scavenger: Post-Exploitation Tool for Collecting Vital Data

‘Scavenger’ - definition [noun]: a person who searches for and collects discarded items.

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Announcing ModSecurity version 2.9.3

We are happy to announce ModSecurity version 2.9.3!

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Taking Advantage of AJAX for Account Enumeration

Context AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. It’s a set of web development techniques ...

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Sheepl : Automating People for Red and Blue Tradecraft

Whilst there is a wealth of information out there about how to build environments that can be used ...

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Exploring and Modifying Android and Java Applications for Security Research

Sometimes pentesters and security researchers need to modify existing Java application but have no ...

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Decoding Hancitor Malware with Suricata and Lua

Many types of malware send and receive data via HTTP. They may either be sending updates back to ...

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ModSecurity v3.0.3: What To Expect

At precisely 155 commits ahead of the latest version, ModSecurity version 3.0.3 contains a number ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2018

The second to last Patch Tuesday of 2018 is here with patches for 55 CVEs. This includes 11 rated ...

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Demystifying Obfuscation Used in the Thanksgiving Spam Campaign

During Thanksgiving week, we noticed this quite unusual XML-format MS Office Document file:

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Hacker's Wish Come True After Infecting Visitors of Make-A-Wish Website With Cryptojacking

After coming back from a vacation, the first thing to do is catch up with what happened while you ...

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DOH! DNS Over HTTPS Poses Possible Risks to Enterprises

Introduction David Middlehurst of Trustwave SpiderLabs presented at the first ever conference ...

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10 Years On – A Look Back at MS08-067

It has been ten years since the release of MS08-067. Unlike many of the other incidents over the ...

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Underground Code of Honor – Part 1 of 3

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were ...

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Red Alert v2.0: Misadventures in Reversing Android Bot Malware

(Analysis by Rodel Mendrez and Lloyd Macrohon)

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SingHealth Data Breach – An Analytical Perspective

Executive Summary On July 20th 2018, the Singapore authorities announced1 that Singapore's largest ...

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TWSL2011-004: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ZyXEL ZyWALL 70 Firewall

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details a vulnerability ...

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Unpatched Remote Code Execution in Reprise License Manager

During a recent penetration testing engagement, I came across a particularly interesting web ...

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WD My Cloud EX2 Serves Your Files to Anyone

Western Digital's My Cloud is a popular storage/backup device that lets users backup and store ...

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The Underground Job Market – Part 2 of 3

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2018

October's Patch Tuesday is here and with it come patches for 49 CVEs and a "Defense in Depth" ...

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Credential Leak Flaws in Windows PureVPN Client

Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) can bring many advantages, particularly when you want to ...

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