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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.
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that leverage known security vulnerabilities and expose Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining infrastructure
A bug in the control board that connects peripheral devices in commonly used Dell laptops allowed malicious access all the way down to the firmware running on the device chip, new research finds.
Researchers Show How AI Image Downscaling Can be an Attack VectorResearchers discovered a method to embed invisible prompt injections that are activated during AI's processing of an image. When the model scales down these images, the hidden malicious instructions allow theft of data from popular image production systems.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to malicious activity orchestrated by a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Murky Panda that involves abusing trusted relationships in the cloud to breach enterprise networks
Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.…
New research highlights how threat actors abuse legitimate virtual private server offerings in order to spin up infrastructure cheaply, quietly, and fast.
Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin ransomware administrators is fake. The impostor later admitted it was created to troll researchers and journalists. [...]
Logging netflows provided valuable insight about attacker tactics during a breach by state-sponsored hackers targeting Columbia's research labs.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware loader called QuirkyLoader that's being used to deliver via email spam campaigns an array of next-stage payloads ranging from information stealers to remote access trojans since November 2024
Researchers highlight how Warlock, a new ransomware heavyweight, uses its sophisticated capabilities to target on-premises SharePoint instances.
Inotiv Inc. Tells SEC Some Business Operations Disrupted, No Recovery Date in SightInotiv, a drug research and development firm, told federal regulators that it's been dealing with a cyberattack since Aug. 8 that has encrypted some IT systems and data, and is disrupting certain business operations. Ransomware gang Qilin has listed the company as a victim on its dark website.
Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.…
Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds' Researchers at watchTowr just published working proof-of-concept exploits for two unauthenticated remote code execution bug chains in backup giant Commvault.…
Teenaged security researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng discuss how their new vulnerability discovery framework leverages LLMs to address limitations of the past.
Indiana-based pharmaceutical research company Inotiv has confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack, disrupting operations and compromising data
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into carrying out intended actions by embedding the malicious instruction inside a fake CAPTCHA check on a web page
Researchers discovered two new phishing techniques where attackers split malicious QR codes or embed them into legitimate ones
Cybersecurity risks can come from everywhere, as these riveting Dark Reading News Desk videos detail. Check out Part 1 of our broadcast coverage of the top research presented at Black Hat USA 2025.
Zenity CTO Michael Bargury joins the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk to discuss research on a dangerous exploit, how generative AI technology has "grown arms and legs" —and what that means for cyber risk.