The OWASP Mobile Top 10 lists the foremost crucial security risks in mobile applications. This list is essential for developers, security professionals, and organizations to prioritize their resources while addressing mobile app development vulnerabilities in order of severity.

Black Hat 2024 has come and gone. The Nucleus team attending the show has (mostly) caught up on their sleep, which can mean one thing – a look back at the conference and our impressions of the event.

Microsoft has disclosed a critical (CVSS 9.8) TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that impacts all Windows systems utilizing IPv6. To conduct this attack, threat actors can repeatedly send IPv6 packets that include specially crafted packets. By doing this, an unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability, leading to remote code execution. Systems that have IPv6 disabled are not susceptible to this vulnerability.

A new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2024-38856, has been discovered in the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, presenting a critical threat to businesses worldwide. This pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit weaknesses in OFBiz’s request handling, leading to unauthorized access and potentially damaging control over affected systems.

This week, Nucleus can add another accolade to a growing list, being listed as number 267 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 5000 fastest-growing companies in America. We are proud of the growth we’ve achieved as a company and the potential for the future at Nucleus. Looking more closely at the results, we are the fourth fastest-growing security company on the list. As many people know, the cybersecurity and technology market has been tumultuous recently.

One of the main goals of this research was to explore C/C++ vulnerabilities in the context of NodeJS npm packages. The focus will be on exploring and identifying classic vulnerabilities like Buffer Overflow, Denial of Service (process crash, unchecked types), and Memory Leakages in the context of NodeJS C/C++ addons and modeling relevant sources, sinks, and sanitizers using Snyk Code (see Snyk brings developer-first AppSec approach to C/C++).

As your organization considers how to shift security left and facilitate shared responsibility for fixing issues, it can be tricky to know where to start. Which tooling will work best with your existing processes? What are the best ways to spread the word about the importance of application security? And once you’ve chosen tools, how do you actually get developers to use them?

This post is based on ongoing security research – the post will continue to be updated as we get additional information… A critical vulnerability has just been announced in Ivanti’s Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create administrator users.

The latest CVE-2024-38077 Remote Code Execution vulnerability (RCE) and coined MadLicense has been rated as absolutely critical with a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8. The Windows Remote Desktop Licensing (RDL) service has a vulnerability that enables network attacks with low complexity, affecting all versions of Windows Server from 2000 to 2025 (all Windows Servers).

Nowadays, the security of your applications is just as important as the functionality they provide. Therefore, analyzing your code for security vulnerabilities is a vital part of maintaining the integrity of your applications and protecting your users' data. As developers, we are at the front lines of this battle. It's our responsibility to ensure that the code we write is not just functional and efficient but also secure.