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.
This time, they're creating elaborate impostor profiles and using a fresh zero-day and a fake Windows tool to lure in the suspecting.
Researchers at Citizen Lab recommend immediately updating any iPhones and iPads to the latest OSes.
The open source object storage service was the target of a never-before-seen attack on corporate cloud services, which researchers said should put DevOps in particular on notice.
Researchers have discovered that despite Google's adoption of the Manifest V3 security standard to protect against malicious plug-ins, attackers can still get bad extensions past its review process.
No patch is available yet for the bug, which can enable remote code execution under the correct circumstances.