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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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Verifying Credentialed Access to Your Hybrid Cloud Sprawl Matters More Than Ever
Verifying credentialed access to your hybrid cloud sprawl matters more than ever. See example attack paths to understand risks to AWS cloud.
Read More OpenSSL Critical Vulnerability: Should You Be Spooked?
On Tuesday, October 25 a new OpenSSL hot-fix release was announced which will patch a critical vulnerability that exists within the v3.0.X branch. OpenSSL 3.0.7 will be released on Tuesday, November 1 and in tandem the details of the vulnerability and its associated CVE will be made public. OpenSSL is an open source project that provides easy to use cryptographic...
Read More The Undeniable Effectiveness of Password Spray
One of the most effective techniques NodeZero employs for initial access is password spray. It’s a primitive technique, basically guessing passwords, and when it works it feels like magic. Yet we see it work time and time again in various pentests conducted by NodeZero. In this post we’ll talk about what password spray is and walk through how NodeZero weaponizes...
Read More Horizon3.ai Breaks Down Fortinet Vulnerability
Horizon3.ai Breaks Down Fortinet Vulnerability Zach Hanley, Horizon3.ai Chief Attack Engineer, and James Horseman, Exploit Developer, join John Furrier of theCUBE to discuss Fortinet CVE 2022 40864.
Read More Secure Your Fortinet Appliances Across On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Networks at Scale
Learn how to use NodeZero from Horizon3.ai to secure your Fortinet appliances across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid networks at scale.
Read More FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager Authentication Bypass Technical Deep Dive (CVE-2022-40684)
Fortinet recently patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in their FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiProxySwitchManager projects (CVE-2022-40684). This vulnerability gives an attacker the ability to login as an administrator on the effected system. To demonstrate the vulnerability in this writeup, we will be using FortiOS version 7.2.1
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