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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.
Researchers are seeing a rise in attacks spreading the EvilExtractor data theft tool, used to steal users' sensitive data in Europe and the U.S. [...]
Kim Jong Un's Swiss Army knife APT continues to spread its tendrils around the world, showing it's not intimidated by the researchers closing in.
Uptick in EvilExtractor activity aims to compromise endpoints to steal browser from targets across Europe and the US, researchers say.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched zero-day flaw in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that could have enabled threat actors to conceal an unremovable, malicious application inside a victim's Google account
Websites of multiple U.S. universities are serving Fortnite and 'gift card' spam. Researchers observed Wiki and documentation pages being hosted by universities including Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, UMass Amherst, Northeastern, Caltech, among others, were compromised. [...]
The new Security Legal Research Fund and Hacking Policy Council are aimed at protecting "good faith" security researchers from legal threats and giving them a voice in policy discussions.
Vulnerable MS-SQL database servers have external connections and weak account credentials, researchers warn.
Security researchers at Check Point published a new advisory on Tuesday describing the new malware
Risk quantification research finds healthcare, manufacturing, and utilities suffer long-term financial impact from major cyberattacks.
1Password research reveals consumers are fed up with passwords; education, access, and validation will drive passwordless adoption.
Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle shoe-horned into this and that it's not called MalwareTotal Security researchers and analysts can now search Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Defender database using file hashes and URLs when pulling together information for network intrusion investigations and whatnot.…
In targeting Apple users, LockBit is going where no major ransomware gang has gone before. But it's a warning shot, and Mac users need not worry yet.
Security researchers have released yet another sandbox escape proof of concept (PoC) exploit that makes it possible to execute unsafe code on the host running the VM2 sandbox. [...]
Researchers explore a love-hate relationship with AI tools like ChatGPT, which can be used to both attack and defend more efficiently.
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of a highly evasive loader named "in2al5d p3in4er" (read: invalid printer) that's used to deliver the Aurora information stealer malware
Researchers warn about a dangerous wave of unwiped secondhand core-routers found containing corporate network configurations, credentials, and application and customer data.
Learning how to break the latest AI models is important, but security researchers should also question whether there are enough guardrails to prevent the technology's misuse.
The punishment – Windows 98 administration chores – was far worse than the crime Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who Me? The Register’s confessional column in which readers admit to being the source of SNAFUs.…