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SNAPPY: Detecting Rogue and Fake 802.11 Wireless Access Points Through Fingerprinting Beacon Management Frames

Honeypot Recon: MSSQL Server – Database Threat Overview '22/'23

Introduction In a constantly connected world, protecting sensitive data in what are often complex ...

Brute-forcing ButterflyMX Virtual Keys and Hacking Time Limits

Recently, I discovered two vulnerabilities in the ButterflyMX system which were responsibly ...

KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil Unveil Plans for Attacks on US and European Banking Systems

In a recent development, Russian hackers have declared their intention to launch cyberattacks on ...

Honeypot Recon: Global Database Threat Landscape

In today's digital era, the importance of securing databases cannot be overstated. As more and more ...

Trustwave Action Response: Zero Day Vulnerability in Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG) (CVE-2023-2868)

On May 19, 2023, Barracuda Networks identified a remote command injection vulnerability ...

From Admin to AdminPlusPlus: Breaking Out of Sandboxed Applications Through Recon, Being Brave and Abusing SSO Domain Account Mappings

I've been pentesting applications for nearly two decades now and throughout that time you get to ...

Trustwave Action Response: Zero Day Exploitation of MOVEit (CVE-2023-34362)

Update - June 16, 2023: The second vulnerability mentioned in the June 12 update now has an ...

Hunting For Password Reset Tokens By Spraying And Using HTTP Pipelining

As is tradition with my blog posts, let’s start off a definition of what HTTP pipelining is all ...

Analyzing the NTC Vulkan Leak: What it Says About Russia's Cyber Capabilities

Information disclosed in the leaked NTC Vulkan papers allows us to investigate the high probability ...

Microsoft Encrypted Restricted Permission Messages Deliver Phishing

Over the past few days, we have seen phishing attacks that use a combination of compromised ...

From Response To Request, Adding Your Own Variables Inside Of GraphQL Queries For Account Take Over

For those wondering what GraphQL is…

When User Impersonation Features In Applications Go Bad

A user impersonation feature typically allows a privileged user, such as an administrator, but ...

Abusing Time-Of-Check Time-Of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerabilities in Games, Harry Potter Style

I feel I need to clarify, for legal reasons, that this is nothing to do with any Harry Potter game. ...

Rendezvous with a Chatbot: Chaining Contextual Risk Vulnerabilities

Ignoring the little stuff is never a good idea. Anyone who has pretended that the small noise their ...

Why It’s Important to Change Default Credentials

Security best practice guidelines always call for changing default passwords as any password left ...

Dissecting Buffer Overflow Attacks in MongoDB

Towards the end of 2020, a new vulnerability in MongoDB was found and published. The vulnerability ...

CVE-2023-29383: Abusing Linux chfn to Misrepresent /etc/passwd

A little bit of background for those not familiar with chfn…

Deobfuscating the Recent Emotet Epoch 4 Macro

In early March, one of the notorious botnets, Emotet, resumed its spamming activities after a ...

Rilide: A New Malicious Browser Extension for Stealing Cryptocurrencies

Trustwave SpiderLabs uncovered a new strain of malware that it dubbed Rilide, which targets ...

Trustwave Action Response: Supply Chain Attack Using 3CX PABX Software

Overview On March 29, a massive supply chain compromise in 3CX software resulted in malware being ...

Anonymous Sudan: Religious Hacktivists or Russian Front Group?

The Trustwave SpiderLabs research team has been tracking a new threat group calling itself ...

2023 Tax Scam Emails Exposed: Unmasking Deceptive Trends

Tax season is a busy time of year for taxpayers and threat actors. Consumers and businesses focus ...

ChatGPT: The Right Tool for the Job?

Since it was first released to the public late last year, ChatGPT has successfully captured the ...

OneNote Spear-Phishing Campaign

Trustwave SpiderLabs “noted” in Part 1 and Part 2 of our OneNote research that OneNote has been ...

A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote – Part 1

Introduction Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and ...

A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote – Part 2

In part one, we examined how threat actors abuse a OneNote document to install an infostealer. Part ...

Network Map NMAP Meets ChatGPT

We’ve now seen a number of different use cases for ChatGPT from marketing, sales, software ...