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.
Researchers have created a decryptor that exploits a flaw in Black Basta ransomware, allowing victims to recover their files for free. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about an increase in phishing attacks that are capable of draining cryptocurrency wallets
It's been a quiet week, with even threat actors appearing to take some time off for the holidays. We did not see much research released on ransomware this week, with most of the news focusing on new attacks and LockBit affiliates increasingly targeting hospitals. [...]
'This is no ordinary vulnerability' sec pros explain Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has exposed a previously unknown 'feature' in Apple iPhones that allows attackers to bypass hardware-based memory protection.…
A new Android backdoor has been discovered with potent capabilities to carry out a range of malicious actions on infected devices
The threat actor referred to as Cloud Atlas has been linked to a set of spear-phishing attacks on Russian enterprises