A Guest Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, I discuss open redirect vulnerabilities and how to find them. If you’ve never heard of open redirects, this might be a useful introductory text.

Last week, we took a look at Shodan results to try to determine which countries are the “richest” in the world when it comes to machines vulnerable to BlueKeep visible from the internet. Since the number of vulnerable machines Shodan detects grows every day (see the following chart), I thought it might be interesting to have another look at the numbers. But in a way which is a little different.

A Guest Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. If you’ve wondered how do the less usual cyber attacks look, it might be worth a read…

We've all read about the hundereds of thousands of machines affected by BlueKeep connected to the internet, but where are they hiding? With the help of Shodan, we can try to figure it out...

If you open any Youtube video, which has in its description a link to an external URL, you may notice that the link points to a Youtube redirection mechanism (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?...), with the target URL being passed to it as a parameter, rather than to the target URL itself...

During a recent research into prevalence of open redirection vulnerabilities within the ccTLD .CZ we've done with my colleagues from ALEF CSIRT, I’ve noticed that many of the vulnerable sites seemed to be using CMS Made Simple with Babel multi-language module. This seemed to warrant a closer investigation...

Unless you live completely cut off from the rest of human civilization, chances are good you’ve heard about the WannaCry ransomware. However, so we’re all on the same page, I’ll go over the salient points of its history before discussing why it is still a threat. WannaCry - the first successful crypto-ransomware worm - started to spread on May 12th 2017 using the EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor implant (both courtesy of the Shadow Brokers and - by proxy - Equation Group/NSA) and supposedly hit more than 100 countries within the first 24 hours.

I’ve added a new page to the site with links to miscelaneous tools and materials useful for Incident Response, Malware Analysis, Penetration Testing, etc. It may be accessed here or through the easily remembered URL http://csirt.xyz.

Untrusted Network is back! I've managed to salvage most of the posts from old version of the site so you may find links to those on the main page. So far that's the only content but you may look forward to new posts in 2019!

ALEF NULA (in the interest of full disclosure, I’d like to mention that I am currently employed by AN) launched a new competition called ALEF Hacker Challenge last week. The intended aim is to compromise a specific system and gather data from it. Although not unique, it is an interesting competition and not only because the main price is 12 000 CZK.