In this blog post we will reverse engineer a sample which acts as downloader for malware (aka a “dropper”). It is not uncommon to find such a downloader during DFIR engagements so we decided to take a look at it. The sample that we are going to analyze has been obtained from abuse.ch and was […]
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A new vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) affecting SMBv3 has been discovered. The community has started to name this vulnerability SMBGhost because everyone knows this vulnerability is present but no additional details are available. Microsoft also released the advisory ADV200005. [1]
When you add a new computer, it must first join the domain. If you use its future main user to do it, they’ll become the owner and be able to hijack the computer to become a local administrator in four easy steps.
Sometimes, it doesn’t take much for a good scam: a good story, a little persuasion, then disappear again… and sometimes, the scammers come up with tactics that come straight out of the textbook.
A write-up of the OWASP Toronto January talk which mainly focused on the correlation and integration of results generated by automated tools in application security such as SAST, DAST and SCA. Alexandre Larocque concludes whether old-fashioned PDF reports are still worth it.
“I love hacking can be used for the greater good.” During the Solothurn Film Festival 2020 we had the opportunity to meet Jim McKay, who directed, among others, two episodes for Mr. Robot season one. Jim had also time for a short interview. What is important for you working as a director/writer? Jim McKay: I […]
As a defender, you want to find and patch attack paths in your Active Directory environment. One cannot easily spot issues by looking at the Active Directory Users and Computers console, GPOs, etc. but here comes BLOODHOUND.
Ransomware focuses on encrypting data on a filesystem-level, either locally on infected client systems or remotely on accessible file servers. However, what if ransomware would start encrypting data on an application-level too?
Everyone knows: cheat sheets are cool! They are very useful if you already know the basics about a topic but you have to look up details when you are not sure about something.
Mobile applications nowadays make heavy use of WebViews in order to render their user interfaces. Frameworks such as PhoneGap / Apache Cordova are even used to implement most of the application’s functionalities using WebViews only.
While native code, both in Android and in iOS, can quickly be analyzed using dynamic analysis tools like Frida, operations performed in WebViews cannot be easily debugged with the same methods.
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