During a recent penetration test on a customer application, I noticed weird interactions between the web front-end and back-end. This would eventually turn out to be a vulnerability called HTTP request smuggling, enabled by the fact that the front-end was configured to downgrade HTTP/2 requests to HTTP/1.1. With the help from my colleague Thomas Stacey, we were able to construct an exploit chain with response queue desynchronization along with traditional HTTP/1.1 request smuggling techniques.

The Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model, and its readily available scheme, remains to be the preferred method for emerging threat actors to carry out complex and lucrative cyberattacks. Information theft is a significant focus within the realm of MaaS, with a specialization in the acquisition and exfiltration of sensitive information from compromised devices, including login credentials, credit card details, and other valuable information.

You have kicked-off your annual application security assessment, but by the time the final report comes in, so have a bunch of new features from your developers. Since your pen test report can’t keep-up with your modern development cycles, it is now (and always) obsolete. You can check-off your compliance checkbox, but you’re not anymore secure than you were before. If this sounds familiar, it is clearly time for an update.

Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2023 – Leading cyber risk management and threat intelligence provider Outpost24 today announced the release of Threat Explorer, an advanced vulnerability intelligence and custom alerting tool for continuous threat monitoring.

Broken access control, the vulnerability category consistently ranking on the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks list, poses the most significant challenge for application security right now. Over-reliance on automated solutions to tackle these challenges creates a false sense of security and could have severe implications for application owners.

Earlier this month, the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) warned that a threat actor may have gained access to the personal information of their registered voters. This would include personally identifiable information (PII) such as contact details, partial social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers. In an X post on Friday 20th October, the agency was keen to stress that it was only a possibility the voter roll had been accessed.

Cisco has issued a warning regarding a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2023-20198) affecting its IOS XE software. With a severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system, the vulnerability grants remote attackers full administrator privileges on affected devices without authentication.

New data from Outpost24 reveals that IT administrators could be just as predictable as end-users when it comes to passwords. An analysis of just over 1.8 million passwords ranks ‘admin’ as the most popular password with over 40,000 entries, with additional findings pointing to a continued acceptance of default passwords.

On October 4, 2023, the curl project maintainers sent out a pre-notification that curl version 8.4.0, expected to be released on October 11 (around 06:00 UTC), will address what they denote as the most serious vulnerability in recent years. Curl is a de-facto standard in the software business when it comes to web requests, and supports a wide range of communication protocols. Depending on the vulnerability, it could have far reaching implications.

The infostealer malware Rhadamanthys was discovered in the last quarter of 2022. Its capabilities showed a special interest in crypto currency wallets, targeting both wallet clients installed in the victim’s machine and browser extensions. The main distribution methods observed for this threat are fake software websites promoted through Google Ads, and phishing emails, without discriminating by region or vertical.