During some standard research as part of the Outpost24 Ghost Labs Vulnerability Research department, I discovered four different vulnerabilities in Nagios XI (version 5.11.1 and lower). Three of these vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40931, CVE-2023-40933 and CVE-2023-40934) allow users, with various levels of privileges, to access database fields via SQL Injections.
Imagine your organization’s digital fortress – now picture a thousand hidden doors, each a potential entry point for cyber threats. In the world of cybersecurity, these doors are known as ‘external attack surface vulnerabilities’ and understanding them is the first step to locking them down. External attack surface vulnerabilities are the weak points of a company’s network that can potentially be exploited by malicious actors.
During a recent customer engagement, I came across an instance of a rather rare vulnerability class called HTTP request smuggling. Over the course of several grueling days of exploit development, I was eventually able to abuse this vulnerability to trigger a response queue desynchronization, allowing me to capture other users’ requests, leading to session hijacking.
Threat Intelligence Analyst How does phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) really work, and can it really bypass MFA? Here, we will walk you through the user interface of a PhaaS platform, and how its users can quickly build their own attacks using the built-in attack models and templates (and bypass MFA). For a layered approach, beyond MFA, we will introduce you to the benefits of using a threat intelligence solution to stay-ahead of emerging and advanced phishing attacks.
As the threat landscape evolves, so must the methods and tools to safeguard critical digital assets. Vulnerability management programs that were once considered the gold standard are starting to show limitations in their ability to address complex cyber risks.
Threat actors are constantly looking for new ways or paths to achieve their goals, and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of these novelties that could drastically change the underground ecosystem. The cybercrime community will see this new technology either as a business model (developers and sellers) or as products to perpetrate their attacks (buyers).
How can you take a proactive approach to your organization’s cybersecurity strategy? Scoping the threat landscape and having a solid incident response plan is a good start. But you also need to continuously seek out vulnerabilities and weaknesses to remediate or mitigate. These vulnerabilities and weaknesses aren’t just limited to systems and processes – the human factor plays a prominent part in many cybersecurity breaches.
The NIS2 Directive, published in December 2022, sets out a series of measures for improving cyber risk management throughout the European Union. All EU member states must apply the Directive as part of national law by October 2024. By the same date, all applicable organizations must comply with the measures set out in NIS2.
MITRE ATT&CK® is a globally accessible knowledge base of 14 adversary tactics and over 500 techniques based on real-world observations. The first model was proposed in 2013 and publicly released in 2015 which has been gathering momentum over the last couple of years.
The ISO 27000 series is an industry standard that has long defined and dictated base-level requirements for organizations’ information security management systems (ISMS). Through more than a dozen standards, the framework helps organizations demonstrate management commitment to their ISMS as they regularly review and improve their systems and procedures.
