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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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ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 Technical Deep Dive

Introduction On January 10, 2023, ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966 (discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security) affecting a wide range of products. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain remote code execution by issuing a HTTP POST request containing a malicious SAML response. This vulnerability is a result of  using an outdated version of Apache Santuario for...
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ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 IOCs

Introduction The recent ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 is a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability. Depending on the specific ManageEngine product, this vulnerability is exploitable if SAML single-sign-on is enabled or has ever been enabled. ManageEngine products are some of the most widely used across enterprises and perform business functions such as authentication, authorization, and identity management. Given the nature of these products, a vulnerability...
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Metrics That Matter: An Attacker’s Perspective on Assessing Password Policy

After compromising a Windows domain controller, one of the actions that NodeZero, our autonomous pentest product, performs is dumping all domain user password hashes from the Active Directory database. This is a common attacker technique, and the resulting dump is highly valuable to attackers. But did you know that this data is a great source of insight for defenders too?
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Holiday Season Threat Awareness

As we approach the holiday season, it is important that our customers remain stay and continue a regular cadence of autonomous pentests. Although it’s the time of year for holiday cheer, we’ve seen cyber threat actors (CTAs) take advantage of lackadaisical company manning and low staff.
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