The WannaCry Ransomware Campaign

May 13, 2017 | Karl Sigler

By now you have likely heard about the WannaCry (aka WannaCrypt) ransomware ...

Airachnid: Web Cache Deception Burp Extender

May 09, 2017 | Johan Snyman

Introduction

Carbanak Continues To Evolve: Quietly Creeping into Remote Hosts

April 28, 2017 | James Antonakos

Introduction

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Avast Antivirus

April 25, 2017 | Martin Rakhmanov

Last year I decided to do some security research on an antivirus product. Avast ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2017

April 11, 2017 | SpiderLabs Researcher

April Patch Tuesday is here and, like the change of the seasons, this release ...

Understanding and Discovering Open Redirect Vulnerabilities

April 10, 2017 | SpiderLabs Researcher

One of the most common and largely overlooked vulnerabilities by web developers ...

And Then? Where is the Risk with Steganography?

March 30, 2017 | Jesus Olguin

In the previous posts, Steganography... what is that? and Steganalysis, the ...

Protecting Yourself from MongoDB Ransomware

March 29, 2017 | Christopher Bielinski

In the realm of malware, ransomware has been king for the last few years, ...

Exploiting Privilege Escalation in Serv-U by SolarWinds

March 22, 2017 | Leopold von Niebelschuetz-Godlewski

I was recently working on an external network penetration test where I ...

Authentication and Encryption in PAS Web Shell Variant

March 16, 2017 | Sachin Deodhar

Introduction During a recent incident response case, we were tasked with ...

Database Security Knowledgebase Update 5.12

March 15, 2017 | Lolita Chandra

This month's update for Database Security Knowledgebase is now available. ...

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Log? Adventures in Log-Based Threat Hunting

March 15, 2017 | James Antonakos

A long time ago, in a blog far, far away (August 1, 2016: Slinging Hash: ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2017

March 14, 2017 | SpiderLabs Researcher

We knew that the Microsoft's Valentine's gift to cancel Patch Tuesday on ...

Undocumented Backdoor Account in DBLTek GoIP

March 01, 2017 | Neil Kettle

Trustwave recently reported a remotely exploitable issue in the Telnet ...

Hanz Ostmaster’s revenge: An SSL Validation issue

February 10, 2017 | Chaim Sanders

Why would I title a blog post with the name 'Hanz Ostmaster'? Don't worry, it's ...

Unauthenticated Backdoor Access in Unanet

February 08, 2017 | Chaim Sanders

The default configuration of the Unanet web application has a backdoor that can ...

Database Security Knowledgebase Update 5.11

February 03, 2017 | Lolita Chandra

This month's update for Database Security Knowledgebase is now available.

Underground Scams: Cutting the Head Off a Snake

February 02, 2017 | Simon Kenin

Shortly after publishing our post about Terror EK, "King Cobra" (a Twitter ...

CVE-2017-5521: Bypassing Authentication on NETGEAR Routers

January 30, 2017 | Simon Kenin

Home routers are the first and sometimes last line of defense for a network. ...

SVG Files Are Not As Benign As It May Seem

January 27, 2017 | Rodel Mendrez

Bad guys are getting quite creative trying to evade spam filters and antivirus ...

Creating the ModSecurity v3 IDS connector as part of Google Summer of Code

January 27, 2017 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A note from the Trustwave Spiderlabs ModSecurity team:

Two Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in McAfee Security Scan Plus

January 23, 2017 | Martin Rakhmanov

This post will discuss two separate Local Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities ...

Is ModSecurity’s SecRules Turing Complete?

January 20, 2017 | Chaim Sanders

Have you ever seen a rule for ModSecurity? They may look similar to the ...

Operation Grand Mars: a comprehensive profile of Carbanak activity in 2016/17

January 18, 2017 | SpiderLabs Researcher

The Trustwave SpiderLabs team has been actively tracking a malicious campaign ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2017

January 10, 2017 | SpiderLabs Researcher

It's everyone's favorite Patch Tuesday, January's Patch Tuesday. Historically ...

Steganalysis, the Counterpart of Steganography

December 22, 2016 | Jesus Olguin

In my last blog post I discussed the art of embedding secret messages in any ...

Raiding the Piggy Bank: Webshell Secrets Revealed

December 19, 2016 | James Antonakos

Introduction

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2016

December 13, 2016 | SpiderLabs Researcher

December's Patch Tuesday is here to greet you with the pleasant tidings of ...