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.
Software bugs are ubiquitous, and we're familiar with hardware threats. But what about the gap in the middle? Two researchers at Black Hat Asia will attempt to focus our attention there.
Check Point also said the education and research sector experienced the highest number of attacks
Networking equipment maker Zyxel has released patches for a critical security flaw in its firewall devices that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on affected systems
An ongoing Magecart campaign has attracted the attention of cybersecurity researchers for leveraging realistic-looking fake payment screens to capture sensitive data entered by unsuspecting users
Researchers observed downloads of installers for the APT's flagship backdoor, MgBot, when users at a Chinese NGO were updating legitimate applications.
New research from Invicti shows that an increase in security scanning cadence contributes to improved security posture over time.
Security researchers at Uptycs shared the findings in an advisory published on Wednesday
Researchers find that the encryption of a user's 2FA secrets are stripped after transportation to the cloud.
Google is bringing end-to-end encryption to Google Authenticator cloud backups after researchers warned users against synchronizing 2FA codes with their Google accounts. [...]
You waited 13 years for this feature in Google Authenticator. Now researchers are advising you to wait a while longer, just in case...
Last year, 71% of enterprise breaches were pulled off quietly, with legitimate tools, research shows.
Security experts at Check Point Research described the findings in a new advisory published today
A financially-motivated North Korean threat actor is suspected to be behind a new Apple macOS malware strain called RustBucket
More than 65,000 container images also at risk
Researchers find 250 million artifacts and 65,000 container images exposed in registries and repositories scattered across the Internet.
Researchers are unraveling the threads connecting two separate, but in some ways overlapping, Russian-language APTs.
As investigations continue, researchers find confirmation in their suspicions of a sprawling attack affecting multiple organizations.
The Russian-speaking threat actor behind a backdoor known as Tomiris is primarily focused on gathering intelligence in Central Asia, fresh findings from Kaspersky reveal