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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.
Ethical concerns raised after crook offered themselves up on silver platter Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity community.…
Okta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credentials, multi-factor authentication codes, and session tokens in real time, according to security researchers.…
Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack - sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as "Cobalt Strike's AI successor," has been downloaded about 10,000 times since its release in July.…
Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent threat groups that wanted to achieve persistent access at a “military company” in the Philippines.…
'We do believe that this was likely the creation of a cybercrime group,' threat hunter tells The Reg ChillyHell, a modular macOS backdoor believed to be long dormant, has likely been infecting computers for years while flying under the radar, according to security researchers who spotted a malware sample uploaded to VirusTotal in May.…
Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz researchers. But crypto-craving crims did little more than annoy defenders.…
AI security reviews add new risks, say researchers App security outfit Checkmarx says automated reviews in Anthropic's Claude Code can catch some bugs but miss others – and sometimes create new risks by executing code while testing it.…
Plus ties to the Chinese spies who hacked Barracuda email gateways Security researchers have uncovered dozens of domains used by Chinese espionage crew Salt Typhoon to gain stealthy, long-term access to victim organizations going back as far as 2020.…