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.
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei, a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution
Weeks after the critical vulnerability was reported and a hacking of the Treasury Department, nearly 9,000 BeyondTrust instances remain wide open to the Internet, researchers say.
Developers Listed as Public Contact Points Targeted in Phishing CampaignA supply chain attack that subverted legitimate Google Chrome browser extensions to inject data-stealing malware is more widespread than security researchers first suspected. So far researchers have identified 36 subverted extensions collectively used by 2.6 million people.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model's (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses
Over 2.5 million end users are at risk as researchers discover 36 compromised Chrome extensions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems
Researcher Demonstrates Bitpixie Attack Tactics to Extract Encryption KeyA previously patched flaw in Windows BitLocker disk encryption feature is susceptible to attacks allowing hackers to decrypt information, new research has found. Security researcher Thomas Lambertz extracted data from the system memory, including the master key.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three security weaknesses in Microsoft's Azure Data Factory Apache Airflow integration that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker to gain the ability to conduct various covert actions, including data exfiltration and malware deployment
Fully homomorphic encryption can safeguard highly sensitive health data related to rare diseases, underserved populations and clinical trials as it is shared with medical researchers, said Kurt Rohloff, co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies, who said projects to apply it are underway right now.