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.
Software bugs are ubiquitous, and we're familiar with hardware threats. But what about the gap in the middle? Two researchers at Black Hat Asia will attempt to focus our attention there.
Researchers observed downloads of installers for the APT's flagship backdoor, MgBot, when users at a Chinese NGO were updating legitimate applications.
New research from Invicti shows that an increase in security scanning cadence contributes to improved security posture over time.
Researchers find that the encryption of a user's 2FA secrets are stripped after transportation to the cloud.
Last year, 71% of enterprise breaches were pulled off quietly, with legitimate tools, research shows.
Researchers find 250 million artifacts and 65,000 container images exposed in registries and repositories scattered across the Internet.
Researchers are unraveling the threads connecting two separate, but in some ways overlapping, Russian-language APTs.
As investigations continue, researchers find confirmation in their suspicions of a sprawling attack affecting multiple organizations.