Research examines attack methods, defenses, and vulnerabilities, helping security teams understand risks and improve protection.
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Research is the systematic study of technologies, systems, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and defensive techniques to establish evidence and produce new findings. In information security, it includes work such as discovering flaws in software or protocols, analyzing malware and attacker behavior, testing cryptographic designs, and evaluating security controls. News under this tag may describe a proof of concept, a measurement study, or a proposed technique rather than a confirmed real-world attack.
For practitioners, research can change how risks are prioritized and mitigated. A demonstrated vulnerability may require vulnerability-management teams to verify affected assets, apply fixes, or add compensating controls; responsible disclosure gives developers time to assess and remediate before technical details enable exploitation. Research involving live systems, personal data, or offensive tooling also raises privacy, authorization, dual-use, and ethical concerns. Sound findings should state their assumptions, scope, limitations, and reproducibility, since laboratory results do not automatically show that an attack is practical in every environment.
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As exploitation activity against CVE-2025-55182 ramps up, researchers are finding some proof-of-concept exploits contain bypasses for web application firewall (WAF) rules.
Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.
Exploitation of CVE-2025-42957 requires "minimal effort" and can result in a complete compromise of the SAP system and host OS, according to researchers.
As threat actors continue to hop on the train of exploiting CVE-2025-31324, researchers are recommending that SAP administrators patch as soon as possible so that they don't fall victim next.
Microsoft researchers toyed with app permissions to uncover CVE-2024-44133, using it to access sensitive user data. Adware merchants may have as well.
The security vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-37394, CVE-2024-37395, and CVE-2024-37396, could lay open proprietary and sensitive research to data thieves.
The latest threat to Citrix NetScaler, CVE-2023-4966, was exploited as a zero-day bug for months before a patch was issued. Researchers expect exploitation efforts to surge.
There's nothing yet to suggest CVE-2022-42889 is the next Log4j. But proof-of-concept code is available, and interest appears to be ticking up.