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Welcome to our cybersecurity research blog where we uncover how malicious actors exploit weaknesses in systems, while going beyond the technical aspects and examining real-world perspectives across various industries.

Here you’ll find extensive research and insight from the well-known Horizon3.ai attack team, intuitive perspectives on everything security, and real-world attack path short stories that come directly from discoveries made by NodeZero.

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MOVEit Transfer CVE-2023-34362 Deep Dive and Indicators of Compromise

On May 31, 2023, Progress released a security advisory for their MOVEit Transfer application which detailed a SQL injection leading to remote code execution and urged customers to update to the latest version. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-34362, at the time of release was believed to have been exploited in-the-wild as a 0-day dating back at least 30 days. Soon after publication,...
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Clients Want Assessments to Prove Service Efficacy

Gartner® recently published a report called, Emerging Tech: Grow Your Security Service Revenue with Cybersecurity Validations. We believe the report provides research from a buyer’s perspective on security services they purchase while offering guidance to MSPs and MSSPs on how to improve retention and upsell rates of the critical services they provide. So, what has Gartner discovered, and what do...
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CISA’s Ransomware Vulnerability Awareness Pilot: But Is It Enough?

In early 2023, CISA launched their Ransomware Vulnerability Awareness Pilot (RVWP). It’s designed to warn critical infrastructure (CI) entities that their systems have exposed vulnerabilities that may be exploited by ransomware threat actors. The plan is to identify affected systems that may be prevalent in CI networks, then notify operators about potential risk of exploitation. The idea behind this is...
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CVE-2023-27524: Insecure Default Configuration in Apache Superset Leads to Remote Code Execution

Apache Superset is an open source data visualization and exploration tool. It has over 50K stars on GitHub, and there are more than 3000 instances of it exposed to the Internet. In our research, we found that a substantial portion of these servers – at least 2000 (two-thirds of all servers) – are running with a dangerous default configuration. As...
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