Threat Research Blog
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A Security Analysis of Azure DevOps Job Execution
In software development, CI/CD practices are now standard, helping to move code quickly and efficiently from development to production. Azure DevOps, previously known as Team Foundation Server...
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CyberArk Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management – again.
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AI Treason: The Enemy Within
tl;dr: Large language models (LLMs) are highly susceptible to manipulation, and, as such, they must be treated as potential attackers in the system. LLMs have become extremely popular and serve...
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A Brief History of Game Cheating
Over the short span of video game cheating, both cheaters and game developers have evolved in many ways; this includes everything from modification of important game variables (like health) by...
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Double Dipping Cheat Developer Gets Caught Red-Handed
Following our post “A Brief History of Game Cheating,” it’s safe to say that cheats, no matter how lucrative or premium they might look, always carry a degree of danger. Today’s story revolves...
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Identity Crisis: The Curious Case of a Delinea Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
During a recent customer engagement, the CyberArk Red Team discovered and exploited an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability (CVE-2024-39708) in Delinea Privilege Manager (formerly Thycotic...
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How to Bypass Golang SSL Verification
Golang applications that use HTTPS requests have a built-in SSL verification feature enabled by default. In our work, we often encounter an application that uses Golang HTTPS requests, and we have...
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The Current State of Browser Cookies
What Are Cookies When you hear “cookies,” you may initially think of the delicious chocolate chip ones. However, web cookies function quite differently than their crumbly-baked counterparts....
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You Can’t Always Win Racing the (Key)cloak
Web Race Conditions – Success and Failure – a Keycloak Case Study In today’s connected world, many organizations’ “keys to the kingdom” are held in identity and access management (IAM) solutions;...
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Operation Grandma: A Tale of LLM Chatbot Vulnerability
Who doesn’t like a good bedtime story from Grandma? In today’s landscape, more and more organizations are turning to intelligent chatbots or large language models (LLMs) to boost service quality...
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Your NVMe Had Been Syz’ed: Fuzzing NVMe-oF/TCP Driver for Linux with Syzkaller
Following research conducted by a colleague of mine [1] at CyberArk Labs, I better understood NVMe-oF/TCP. This kernel subsystem exposes INET socket(s), which can be a fruitful attack surface for...
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Crumbled Security: Unmasking the Cookie-Stealing Malware Threat
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the adoption of identity security solutions. Since these types of solutions help protect against a whole range of password-guessing and...
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The Hacker’s Guide to The Cosmos (SDK): Stealing Millions from the Blockchain
Introduction Welcome, fellow travelers of the Cosmos! While we may not be traversing the stars on a spaceship, we are all interconnected through the powerful network of blockchains. Unfortunately,...
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A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 3)
Introduction This is the final installment of the blog series “A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications.” Previously, we discussed the structure of macOS applications and their...
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Ransomware’s PLAYing a Broken Game
Abstract The Play ransomware group is one of the most successful ransomware syndicates today. All it takes is a quick peek with a disassembler to know why this group has become infamous. This is...
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SafeNet: Securing Your Network From Yourself
TL;DR Whether working at home or in the office, when conducting cybersecurity research, investigating the dark web forums or engaging with any dangerous part of the internet, staying safe is...
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Fuzzer-V
TL;DR An overview of a fuzzing project targeting the Hyper-V VSPs using Intel Processor Trace (IPT) for code coverage guided fuzzing, built upon WinAFL, winipt, HAFL1, and Microsoft’s IPT.sys....
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NVMe: New Vulnerabilities Made Easy
As vulnerability researchers, our primary mission is to find as many vulnerabilities as possible with the highest severity as possible. Finding vulnerabilities is usually challenging. But could...
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Fantastic Rootkits: And Where To Find Them (Part 3) – ARM Edition
Introduction In this blog, we will discuss innovative rootkit techniques on a non-traditional architecture, Windows 11 on ARM64. In the prior posts, we covered rootkit techniques applied to a...
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A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 2)
Introduction This is the second part of the “A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Application” blog series. In the first part, we learned about macOS applications and their structure and...
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A Deep Dive into Penetration Testing of macOS Applications (Part 1)
Introduction As many of us know, there are a lot of guides and information on penetration testing applications on Windows and Linux. Unfortunately, a step-by-step guide doesn’t exist in the macOS...
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