The Ominous signs of a potential Inter-State Cyberwar

According to an announcement made on Tuesday, August 10 by FireEye, a global cybersecurity firm, a coordinated cyberattack, which most likely originated in China, hit dozens of Israeli government and private organizations. This cyberattack is the first documented case of a large-scale Chinese attack on Israel, the world’s leading cyber superpower. Aimed at leaking political […]

Cybersecurity Threats at the Olympics

With more than 11,000 athletes from 206 countries participating, the world is watching the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with great enthusiasm. But, unfortunately, while the Olympics showcases the very best in sporting talent, it also has a history of attracting cybersecurity threats from those seeking to cause politically motivated harm, make easy money, spread […]

Malware on Steroids – Part 2: Evading Antivirus in a Simulated Organizational Environment

Recap In the previous post, we wrote a simple CMD Reverse Shell over TCP. However, in a real-life scenario, things would be pretty different. In this post, we will be focusing on Evading Antivirus and covering the following topics: Creating a Simulated Environment using Windows Active Directory, DNS, Proxy and Firewall. Writing C/C++ code for […]

Manipulating Host Headers – Not Anymore !

Introduction Host header injections have been around for a while now, and sometimes the developer just does not know how to get rid of them! Configuring virtual hosts, adding host verification codes to redirection pages, etc. All of this can be time-consuming or stressful for some! So, I will be explaining a simple technique that […]

Reverse Engineering For Beginners – XOR encryption – Windows x64

Prologue In the previous blogpost, we reverse engineered a binary and extracted the password from within it. This binary however contained a plaintext password. This was good to start for beginners, but you won’t really find such types of binaries in today’s world. In real life, passwords are mostly obfuscated or encrypted. Most of the […]