Analytics Insight

How Hackers Operate: The Tools Behind Real-World Cybersecurity Testing

Overview:Ethical hackers follow the seven-phase Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), moving from intelligence ...
CSOonline

Putting AI-assisted ‘vibe hacking’ to the test

Valuable tools for experienced attackers and researchers, LLMs are not yet capable of creating exploits at a prompt, researchers found in a test of 50 AI models — some of which are getting better ...
VentureBeat

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...
Linux Journal

The Growth of Vulnerability Management: The Rise of Agentic AI Pentesting

Autonomous Agents: Solutions like XBOW provide a more independent experience by allowing the AI to create its own logic or ...
Dark Reading

AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection

Attackers have reduced the time to develop an exploit for a known vulnerability from 125 days to a mere half a day, thanks to the use of AI-assisted development, leaving vulnerability scanners ...
Security Boulevard

Why Most Security Tools Still Fail to Test Real Attack Paths

Instead of presenting vulnerability counts, more visibility is required. Tools flag potential issues without validating them properly.
Homeland Security Today

Securing IoT and ICS Devices Through Deliberate Exposure Testing for eXploits (DETOX)

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are predicted to grow at a phenomenal rate, high enough to require more bandwidth than currently available via current wireless technologies, leading to a requirement ...
Bleeping Computer

Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was ...
Hosted on MSN

Exploits now arrive 10 hours after a vulnerability is published — down from days just two years ago

When Ivanti disclosed critical flaws in its Connect Secure VPN gateway in January 2024, attackers had working exploits circulating within roughly 24 hours. By the time most IT teams scheduled a patch ...
Wired

A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits

New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows Update could be exploited to downgrade Windows to older versions, exposing a ...
Bleeping Computer

Fake LDAPNightmware exploit on GitHub spreads infostealer malware

A deceptive proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-49113 (aka "LDAPNightmare") on GitHub infects users with infostealer malware that exfiltrates sensitive data to an external FTP server. The ...
Hackaday

Unitree Humanoid Robot Exploit Looks Like A Bad One

Unitree have a number of robotic offerings, and are one of the first manufacturers offering humanoid robotic platforms. It seems they are also the subject of UniPwn, one of the first public exploits ...