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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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An International Look at Cybercrime
Authoritarian regimes have learned in recent years that cybercrime can be a profitable economic enterprise – so much so that they continue to invest substantial resources in large- and small-scale cybercrime.
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Beyond Password Issues: How NodeZero Found Access to an Organization’s Azure Cloud Environment
NodeZero is a generational leap beyond a traditional pentest – organizations often see that for themselves from the moment they give our autonomous pentesting platform a shot. NodeZero surfaces risks and weaknesses that would never have come up during a general vulnerability scan as it chains together attack tactics and techniques to illuminate your most critical impacts an attacker could...
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The Attackers Perspective Through Splunk Data & Workflows
As the industry accelerates toward a threat landscape of attack and defense by algorithm and machine, humans must run at machine speed to manage the stakes of tool misconfiguration, mishandling of logs, and missed patching opportunities. The NodeZero app for Splunk is a force multiplier—combining attacker insights into your unique environment with your existing Splunk data and workflows to enable...
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One Weak Password Leads to Compromise
NodeZero, discovered a customer’s host that had not appeared in previous pentests due to a small change in their configuration.
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The Long Tail of Log4Shell Exploitation
It's been more than six months since the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed, and a number of post-mortems have come out talking about lessons learned and ways to prevent the next Log4Shell-type event from happening.
Read More CVE-2022-28219: Unauthenticated XXE to RCE and Domain Compromise in ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
CVE-2022-28219 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, a compliance tool used by enterprises to monitor changes to Active Directory. The vulnerability comprises several issues: untrusted Java deserialization, path traversal, and a blind XML External Entities (XXE) injection. This is a vulnerability that NodeZero, our autonomous pentesting product, has exploited to not only execute code...
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