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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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Log4Shell RCE Vulnerability in Apache Log4j: The Gift No One Wished For
The Log4Shell RCE vulnerability in Apache Log4j, CVE-2021-44228, dates to 2013 when Log4j 2.0-beta9 was released. An analysis of our pentesting data using NodeZero identified and provided proof of exploit for over 105 unique instances of the CVE within our customers’ environments.
Read More Tech Talk: The Attackers Journey Pt. 3
Noah King, Brad Hong, and Jake Murphy were back at it again with this third installment of 'The Attackers Journey'. This series has focused on Noah King on his journey to become an ethical hacker. Pt. 3 was no different, with a focus on Server-Side Request Forgery!
Read More Horizon3.ai Researchers Able to Create Exploit for Critical F5 BIG-IP Flaw
It took just two days for a pair of researchers from Horizon3.ai to discover exploits for the new F5 BIG-IP vulnerability, and have called for devices to be immediately updated to protect against bad actors.
Read More F5 iControl REST Endpoint Authentication Bypass Technical Deep Dive
F5 recently patched a critical vulnerability in their BIG-IP iControl REST endpoint CVE-2022-1388. This vulnerability particularly worrisome for users because it is simple to exploit and provides an attacker with a method to execute arbitrary system commands.
Read More World Password Day: Credentialed attacks by the numbers
It’s World Password Day, but it’s never a bad time to think about credential security and usage. Credentialed attacks are the most popular means of entry into any digital infrastructure, and remain the easiest method of reconnaissance and privilege escalation for bad actors. With some of the most sophisticated open-source attack tools to date, it’s important for organizations to fight...
Read More “And Then, My EDR Just Watched It Happen”
Learn how NodeZero empowers customers to run continuous penetration tests to find vulnerabilities from an attacker’s perspective, to verify fixes after remediation, and hold the EDR and the rest of the security stack accountable for delivering on their capabilities as designed.
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