Thousands of Organizations Vulnerable to Subdomain Hijacking
Subdomain Hijacking presents a concerning scenario where attackers take control of websites hosted on subdomains owned by reputable organizations, enabling them to ...
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Skynet wants your Passwords! – AI and Social Engineering
As we explore the capabilities of modern AI in assisting us across both our personal and professional lives, malicious actors too are investigating its potential uses ...
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Privilege Escalation in IBM Spectrum Virtualize
During a very short security test, Certitude identified two vulnerabilities in the firmware of IBM Spectrum Virtualize, a storage solution by IBM. One of these ...
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Skynet wants your Passwords! @ WeAreDevelopers
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is regarded by many as Europe's flagship conference for developers and brings together an impressive community of software and ...
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Election manipulation possible – SPÖ member survey vulnerable to hackers
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Increase in Online-Fraud against Accounting
Certitude has noticed an increase in online fraud against the accounting departments of companies in Germany and Austria in the recent weeks. Attackers make customers ...
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The dangers from across browser-windows
While browsing the web, your browser does its best to protect you along the way, but sometimes fails to do so, if not instructed properly by the website you ...
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A Guide to Embedding Threat Modeling into Risk Management (Part 1)
Overview Showing the benefits of threat modeling to management less invested in cyber security topics is notoriously hard as the added value of security, in ...
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Bypassing Web Application Firewalls
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are the go-to infrastructure components used to hinder attacks against web applications. What is it that WAFs really offer – can they ...
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Certitude @ DeepSec 2022
Last week, November 17th and 18th, the DeepSec security conference took place in the Renaissance hotel in Vienna. With more than 50 talks and workshops content was ...
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Bypass phishing detections with Google Translate
A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a ...
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Kubernetes Security @ WeAreDevelopers
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is considered by many as Europe's flagship event for developers, bringing together an amazing community from software and ...
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Novelties of NIS2
The Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive is the first EU-wide piece of cybersecurity legislation, whose primary objective is to achieve a high common ...
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Kubernetes Security @ DeepSec Vienna 2021
On 18th and 19th of November 2021, the DeepSec security conference took place in Vienna to bring together the world's most renowned security professionals from ...
Read MoreRansomware Actor May Have Leaked Their Previous Victims
Recently we were tasked with investigating a ransomware attack case. We were able to reconstruct the likely attack vector and identify the data that was likely stolen ...
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HTTP Header Injection in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway (CVE-2020-8300, CVE-2021-22927)
We have discovered a vulnerability in Citrix products (Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway) that allows an attacker to conduct header injection attacks. This would have ...
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Unpatched Exchange servers distribute phishing links (squirrelwaffle)
Beginning of November a customer reached out to us. Internal and external users reported suspicious mails sent from their mail accounts, which included suspicious ...
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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
A few months ago we saw a post on the r/programminghorror subreddit: A developer describes the struggle of identifying a syntax error resulting from an invisible ...
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RCE in GridPro Request Management for Windows Azure Pack (CVE-2021-40371)
We recently discovered a vulnerability in GridPro Request Management versions <=2.0.7905 for Windows Azure Pack by GridPro Software. The vulnerability was ...
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Citrix ADC & Citrix Gateway Vulnerability CVE-2020-8300
Update: Details regarding this vulnerability can be found here: https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/citrix-header-injection-2/ We have identified an issue in ...
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DP API encryption ineffective in Windows containers: Publicly Available Cryptographic Keys (CVE-2021-1645)
We recently discovered a vulnerability in the DP API key management of Windows containers. This vulnerability was assigned CVE-2021-1645 by Microsoft [1] and ...
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CSRF in JSF 2.0: Predicting CSRF Tokens for Apache MyFaces
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a commonly used server-side web framework. Developers appreciate its relative ease of use while security engineers appreciate its ready-made ...
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SECURITYWEEK – August 31st 2023
US-based cybersecurity news magazine SECURITYWEEK reports about Certitude's recent publication in regards to dangling DNS records and subdomain hijacking. Available ...
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golem.de – August 30th 2023
The German online magazine for topics from information technology, science and technology golem.de reported on Certitude's publication in connection with dangling DNS ...
Read MoretheGuardian.com – August 30th 2023
UK newspaper The Guardian reports on Certitude's recent disclosure regarding dangling DNS records and subdomain hijacking. Available online ...
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