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Aug 21st, 2018
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News
Overview Title: CouchDB Arbitrary Write Local.ini Configuration Authenticated Remote Code Execution Version: <=2.1.1 Researcher: Francesco Oddo at MDSec Labs (https://www.mdsec.co.uk) Disclosure Date: 5/01/2018 Public Disclosure Date: 30/04/2018 Severity: High Description…
Aug 20th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
System Integrity Protection (sometimes called “rootless”) is a security feature introduced in OS X El Capitan as a way to protect critical system components from all accounts, including the root…
Aug 13th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
Recently we’ve been looking at MacOS in the context of redteaming, looking at endpoint security products and how they can be evaded on a Mac. I have previously explored Windows…
Aug 2nd, 2018
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ActiveBreach
You’ve completed your recon, and found that your target is using MacOS… what next? With the increased popularity of MacOS in the enterprise, we are often finding that having phishing…
Jun 25th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
In April, we released our in-house payload generation tool SharpShooter to demonstrate the automation of some of the nuances in payload creation and evasion of defensive controls. This was generally…
Jun 18th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
By now, many of us know that during an engagement, AMSI (Antimalware Scripting Interface) can be used to trip up PowerShell scripts in an operators arsenal. Attempt to IEX Invoke-Mimikatz…
Mar 7th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
Getting a foothold is often one of the most complex and time-consuming aspects of an adversary simulation. We typically find much of our effort is spent creating and testing payloads…
Feb 9th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
Last week, it was reported that an exploit was being used to spread the ROKRAT malware. What made this so interesting is that Flash was being used by an APT…
Dec 7th, 2017
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Penetration testing
During a recent mobile application assessment, MDSec’s mobile team encountered a binary protocol over HTTP used for server communication. Analysis of this protocol revealed it to be Apache Thrift, which…
Sep 18th, 2017
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Hardware
The MDSec hardware security team were recently researching the Virgin Super Hub 2ac; the latest of Virgin’s Super Hub models which supports the 5Ghz band of wireless. This blog post…