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.
While several cybercrime groups have embraced "EDR killers," researchers say the deep knowledge and technical skills demonstrated by Crypto24 signify a dangerous escalation.
You probably can't break FIDO authentication. Still, researchers have shown that there are ways to get around it.
The company disclosed a critical FortiSIEM flaw with a PoC exploit for it the same week researchers warned of an ominous surge in malicious traffic targeting the vendor's SSL VPNs.
According to a recent Forescout analysis, open-source models were significantly less successful in vulnerability research than commercial and underground models.
Researchers observed exploitation attempts against a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 in a popular Erlang-based platform for critical infrastructure and OT development.
Passwordless authentication is becoming more common but account recovery poses increased risks that can lead to account takeovers. It's especially dangerous because even low-skilled attackers can achieve success.
Researchers paired the jailbreaking technique with storytelling in an attack flow that used no inappropriate language to guide the LLM into producing directions for making a Molotov cocktail.