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Research Saturday

Every Saturday, we sit down with cybersecurity researchers to talk shop about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and technical discoveries.

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31:48

The art of information gathering.

Research Saturday ·

2024/04/20

Greg Lesnewich, senior threat researcher at Proofpoint, sits down to discuss "From Social Engineering to DMARC Abuse: TA427’s Art of Information Gathering." Since 2023, TA427 has directly solicited foreign policy experts for their opinions on nuclear disarmament, US-ROK policies, and sanction topics via benign conversation starting emails. The research states "While our researchers have consistently observed TA427 rely on social engineering tactics and regularly rotating its email

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15:45

Breaking down a a high-severity vulnerability in...

Research Saturday ·

2024/04/13

Tomer Peled, a Security & Vulnerability Researcher from Akamai is sharing their work on "What a Cluster: Local Volumes Vulnerability in Kubernetes." This research focuses on a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes, allowing for remote code execution with system privileges on all Windows endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster.The research states "The discovery of this vulnerability led to the discovery of two others that share the same root cause: insecure function call and lack of user input

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26:30

Leaking your AWS API keys, on purpose?

Research Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Noah Pack, a SANS Internet Storm Center Intern, sits down to discuss research on "What happens when you accidentally leak your AWS API keys?" This research is a guest diary from Noah and shares a project he worked on after seeing an online video of someone who created a python script that emailed colleges asking for free swag to be shipped to him. The research states "In this article, I will share some research, resources, and real-world data related to leaked AWS API keys." In this research, Noah

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19:56

The supply chain in disarray.

Research Saturday ·

2024/03/30

Elad, a Senior Security Researcher from Cycode is sharing their research on "Cycode Discovers a Supply Chain Vulnerability in Bazel." This security flaw could let hackers inject harmful code, potentially affecting millions of projects and users, including Kubernetes, Angular, Uber, LinkedIn, Databricks, DropBox, Nvidia, Google, and many more. The research states "We reported the vulnerability to Google via its Vulnerability Reward Program, where they acknowledged our discovery and proceeded to

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24:13

HijackLoader unleashed: Evolving threats and sneaky...

Research Saturday ·

2024/03/23

Liviu Arsene from CrowdStrike joins to discuss their research "HijackLoader Expands Techniques to Improve Defense Evasion." The research has found that HijackLoader continues to become increasingly popular among adversaries for deploying additional payloads and tooling.In their analysis of a recent HijackLoader sample, CrowdStrike researchers discovered new techniques designed to increase the defense evasion capabilities of the loader. Researchers state "this new approach has the potential to make

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31:55

Inside SendGrid's phishy business.

Research Saturday ·

2024/03/16

Robert Duncan from Netcraft is sharing their research on "Phishception - SendGrid abused to host phishing attacks impersonating itself." Netcraft has recently observed that criminals abused Twilio SendGrid’s email delivery, API, and marketing services to launch a phishing campaign impersonating itself. Hackers behind this novel phishing campaign used SendGrid’s Tracking Settings feature, which allows users to track clicks, opens, and subscriptions with SendGrid. The malicious link was masked behind

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22:55

Understanding the multi-tiered impact of ransomware.

Research Saturday ·

2024/03/09

This week we are joined by Jamie MacColl and Dr. Pia Hüsch from RUSI discussing their work on "Ransomware: Victim Insights on Harms to Individuals, Organisations and Society." The research reveals some of the harms caused by ransomware, including physical, financial, reputational, psychological and social harms.Researchers state "Based on interviews with victims and incident responders, this paper outlines the harm ransomware causes to organisations, individuals, the UK economy, national security

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21:08

The return of a malware menace.

Research Saturday ·

2024/03/02

This week we are joined by, Selena Larson from Proofpoint, who is discussing their research, "Bumblebee Buzzes Back in Black." Bumblebee is a sophisticated downloader used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors and was a favored payload from its first appearance in March 2022 through October 2023 before disappearing.After a four month hiatus, Proofpoint researchers found that the downloader returned. Its return aligns with a surge of cybercriminal threat activity after a notable absence of many

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23:45

Web host havoc: Unveiling the Manic Menagerie campaign.

Research Saturday ·

2024/02/24

Assaf Dahan and Daniel Frank from Palo Alto Networks Cortex sit down with Dave to talk about their research "Manic Menagerie 2.0: The Evolution of a Highly Motivated Threat Actor." From late 2020 to late 2022, Unit 42 researchers discovered an active campaign that targeted several web hosting and IT providers in the United States and European Union.The research states "They have further deepened their foothold in victims’ environments by mass deployment of web shells, which granted them sustained

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20:16

Hackers come hopping back.

Research Saturday ·

2024/02/17

Ori David from Akamai is sharing their research "Frog4Shell — FritzFrog Botnet Adds One-Days to Its Arsenal." FritzFrog takes advantage of the fact that only internet facing applications were prioritized for Log4Shell patching and targets internal hosts, meaning that a breach of any asset in the network by FritzFrog can expose unpatched internal assets to exploitation. The research states "FritzFrog has traditionally hopped around by using SSH brute force, and has successfully compromised thousands

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30:48

Ransomware is coming.

Research Saturday ·

2024/02/10

Jon DiMaggio, Chief Security Strategist for Analyst1, is discussing his research on "Ransomware Diaries Volume 4: Ransomed and Exposed - The Story of RansomedVC." While there is evidence to support that RansomedVC runs cybercrime operations, Jon questions the claims it made regarding the authenticity of the data it stole and the methods it used to extort victims. The research states "I uncovered sensitive information about the group's leader, Ransomed Support (also known as Impotent), relating to

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25:37

Weathering the internet storm.

Research Saturday ·

2024/02/03

Johannes Ullrich from SANS talking about the Internet Storm Center and how they do research. Internet Storm Center was created as a mix of manual reports submitted by security analysts during Y2K and automated firewall collection started by DShield. The research shares how SANS used their "agile honeypots" to "zoom in" on events to more effectively collect data targeting specific vulnerabilities. Internet Storm Center has been noted on three separate attacks that were observed. The research can be

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23:00

Hooked on pirated macOS applications.

Research Saturday ·

2024/01/27

Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs is sharing their work on "Jamf Threat Labs discovers new malware embedded in pirated applications." Jamf Threat Labs has detected a series of pirated macOS applications that have been modified to communicate to attacker infrastructure. The research states "These applications are being hosted on Chinese pirating websites in order to gain victims." The discovery marks new and advanced malware, similar to the ZuRu malware, first discovered by Objective-See in 2021

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23:01

A firewall wake up call.

Research Saturday ·

2024/01/20

Jon Williams from Bishop Fox is sharing their research on "It’s 2024 and Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls are Publicly Exploitable." SonicWall published advisories for CVE-2022-22274 and CVE-2023-0656 a year apart after finding that NGFW series 6 and 7 devices are affected by two unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The research states "Our research found that the two issues are fundamentally the same but exploitable at different HTTP URI paths due to reuse of a vulnerable code

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18:58

Dual Russian cyber gangs hit 23 companies.

Research Saturday ·

2024/01/13

Ryan Westman, Senior Manager, Threat Intelligence, eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU), is discussing their research "Two Russian-speaking cyber gangs attack employees from 23 different companies." They are using malicious Google ads, promoting popular business software such as Zoom, Slack, and Adobe. The customers targeted are companies in the manufacturing, software, legal, retail and healthcare industries. The attacking threat actors belong to the Russian-speaking Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS)

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24:05

Diving deep into Phobos ransomware.

Research Saturday ·

2024/01/06

Guilherme Venere from Cisco Talos joins to discuss their research on "A deep dive into Phobos ransomware, recently deployed by 8Base group." Cisco Talos discovered that 8Base’s Phobos ransomware payload contains an embedded configuration, which is a significant difference between 8Base’s Phobos variant and other Phobos samples that have been observed in the wild since 2019. In this 2-part research series, Talos conducts a deep dive into the Phobos ransomware, including its affiliate structure,

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23:33

Encore: What malicious campaign is lurking under the...

Research Saturday ·

2023/12/30

Israel Barak, CISO from Cybereason, sits down with Dave to discuss their research, "Operation CuckooBees: Cybereason Uncovers Massive Chinese Intellectual Property Theft Operation." Cybereason researchers recently found an attack lurking beneath the surface which was assessed to be the work of Chinese APT Winnti. Cybereason briefed the FBI and the DOJ on the investigation into the malicious campaign. The research states, "For years, the campaign had operated undetected, siphoning intellectual

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21:32

Encore: Compromised military tech?

Research Saturday ·

2023/12/23

Dick O'Brien from Symantec's threat hunter team, joins Dave to discuss their work on "Stonefly: North Korea-linked spying operation continues to hit high-value targets." Stonefly specializes in mounting highly selective targeted attacks against targets that could yield intelligence to assist strategically important sectors. Symantec found that The attackers breached an engineering firm in February 2022, most likely by exploiting the Log4j vulnerability, Their research describes who these high value

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22:27

Shedding light on fighting Ursa.

Research Saturday ·

2023/12/16

Host of the CyberWire Daily podcast segment Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Mike "Siko" Sikorski from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to discuss their research on "Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign." Unit 42 just published new threat intelligence on Fighting Ursa (aka APT28), a group associated with Russia's military intelligence, on how they are exploiting a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) to target organizations in NATO member countries, Ukraine,

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15:02

On the hunt for popping up kernel drives.

Research Saturday ·

2023/12/09

Dana Behling, researcher from Carbon Black, sharing their work on "Hunting Vulnerable Kernel Drivers." The Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) discovered 34 unique vulnerable drivers, six of which allow kernel memory access, accepting firmware access. TAU reported the issues to the vendors whose drivers had valid signatures at the time of discovery, but only two vendors fixed the vulnerabilities. TAU is calling for more comprehensive approaches in the future than the current banned-list method

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