Vulnerabilities and exploits

In this article we solve the most difficult SAS CTF challenge based on the APT technique to introduce and persist a kernel shellcode on Windows 7.

The Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence team shares insights into the H1 2024 Middle Eastern cyberthreat landscape: hacktivism, initial access brokers, ransomware, stealers, and so on.

While pentesting KasperskyOS-based Thin Client and IoT Secure Gateway, we found several vulnerabilities in the Suricata and FreeRDP open-source projects. We shared details on these vulnerabilities with the community along with our fuzzer.

The report contains statistics on vulnerabilities and exploits, with an analysis of interesting vulnerabilities found in Q2 2024.

We studied data from the internet and Kaspersky internal sources to find out how and why people use indirect prompt injection.

We performed the security analysis of a Telit Cinterion modem in course of a bigger project of security assessment of a popular model of a truck and found eight vulnerabilities.

The report analyzes the security properties of a popular biometric access control terminal made by ZKTeco and describes vulnerabilities found in it.

This is the first part of the research, devoted to null session vulnerability, unauthorized MS-RPC interface and domain user enumeration.

In April 2024, while researching CVE-2023-36033, we discovered another zero-day elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, which was assigned CVE-2024-30051 identifier and patched on May, 14 as part of Microsoft’s patch Tuesday. We have seen it exploited by QakBot and other malware.

The report provides vulnerability and exploit statistics, key trends, and analysis of interesting vulnerabilities discovered in Q1 2024.

In this report, we highlight the key points about a class of recently-patched elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows, and then focus on how to check if any of them have been exploited or if there have been any attempts to exploit them.

Our Security assessment team set up rankings that reflected our take on the most widespread and critical web application vulnerabilities as viewed through a prism of eight years’ experience.

Security research into an AI robot for kids revealed several vulnerabilities enabling a cybercriminal to take over device control and to video-chat with the kid.

This is part five of our study about the Common Log File System (CLFS) and five vulnerabilities in this Windows OS component that have been used in ransomware attacks throughout the year.

This is part four of our study about the Common Log File System (CLFS) and five vulnerabilities in this Windows OS component that have been used in ransomware attacks throughout the year.