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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.
Project Zero Framework Aims to Boost AI Bug Detection SkillsGoogle's team of zero-day hunters say artificial intelligence can lead to improved automated threat identification and analysis. Researchers say that a framework allows LLMs to mimic the iterative, hypothesis-driven approach of human security experts.
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Attackers Demanding Up to $5 Million to Delete Stolen Data, Investigators ReportAttackers who stole terabytes of data from customers of Snowflake have been not only offering the data for sale on data leak marketplaces but also extorting some of the victims, demanding a ransom of $300,000 to $5 million each, security researchers report.
Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Lets Attackers Control DevicesA vulnerability in a common implementation of the firmware booting up desktop computers powered by Intel chips could allow attackers to obtain ongoing persistence, warn security researchers. The flaw is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Phoenix Technologies SecureCore UEFI implementation.
Chinese Threat Actor 'Velvet Ant' Evaded Detection for Years in Victim NetworkA Chinese threat actor used state-sponsored techniques to carry out a cyberespionage campaign targeting a major organization's networks after exploiting legacy technology to gain multiple footholds across the enterprise infrastructure, researchers said in a Monday blog post.
Push Fatigue Attacks Succeed 5% of the Time, Surge in the Morning, Researchers FindMultifactor authentication is a must-have security defense for repelling outright credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. But no defense is foolproof. Attackers have been refining their tactics for bypassing MFA, including using technology and trickery.
Hackers Can Use the Attack Method to Manipulate ML Model Output and Steal DataResearchers have found a new way of poisoning machine learning models that could allow hackers to steal data and manipulate the artificial intelligence unit's output. Using the Sleepy Pickle attack method, hackers can inject malicious code into the serialization process, said Trail of Bits.