There’s no denying the role that JavaScript has played in making web applications the sleek, interactive, online experiences that we know and love today. This powerful scripting language brought interactivity and animation to the web. But with great power comes great responsibility. Cross-site-scripting (XSS) remains a persistent stalwart among the …
Read More »Brute Force Attacks Conducted by Cyber Actors
In a traditional brute-force attack, a malicious actor attempts to gain unauthorized access to a single account by guessing the password. This can quickly result in a targeted account getting locked-out, as commonly used account-lockout policies allow three to five bad attempts during a set period of time. During a …
Read More »Targeting websites with Password Reset Poisoning
Most of web application security vulnerabilities, leverage user input in ways that were not initially intended by their developer(s). Password Reset Poisoning is one such vulnerability, that leverages commonly unthought of headers, such as the Host header seen in an HTTP request: GET https://example.com/reset.php?email=foo@bar.com HTTP/1.1 Host: evilhost.com Notice the difference …
Read More »Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide
Remote Access Trojan: JBiFrost First observed in May 2015, the JBiFrost RAT is a variant of the Adwind RAT, with roots stretching back to the Frutas RAT from 2012. A RAT is a program that, once installed on a victim’s machine, allows remote administrative control. In a malicious context, it …
Read More »Catching bad guys
Ever wondered how the good guys catch bad guys? I meant to say, what’s the process of catching bad guys who create virus, malware, crypto-lockers? It’s sort of a grey area and mostly not discussed very openly about the different methodologies used for Catching bad guys who create and distribute …
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