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For inspiration you can look at the Static Devirtualization of Themida post that was just released by Back Engineering Labs, as well as the Pushan: Trace-Free Deobfuscation of Virtualization-Obfuscated Binaries paper by ASU researchers published in March. If you enjoy this article and would like to learn more, see my website for information about my in-person trainings. Lifting Lifting is the process of translating assembly instructions to some kind of intermediate representation (IR). The motivation is usually that directly analyzing and manipulating (x86) assembly instructions is complex and error prone. The lifter translates the underlying instruction semantics directly to an IR that is easier to reason about (and therefore to manipulate as well). A few popular IRs: SMT-LIB, used by Triton (symbolic execution) VEX, used by angr Miasm IR Sleigh, used by Ghidra, Remill and Icicle LLVM IR, used by Rellume, revng and Remill Microcode, used by IDA (proprietary) BNIL, used by Binary Ninja (proprietary) For this project I picked LLVM IR, because I am the most familiar with it and it has a well-established ecosystem. LLVM already has all of the common compiler optimizations and it is used and maintained by teams at large corporations. Architecture The architecture of the lifter is very much inspired by remill, but I simplified some things to make it easier to follow. In LLVM a register is actually an SSA value, which means we can only assign to it once. CPU registers are variables that can be assigned to multiple times. We model this by creating a State structure in memory that represents the x86 CPU state: struct State { uint64_t rax; uint64_t rbx; uint64_t rcx; uint64_t rdx; // ... GPRs uint8_t cf; uint8_t zf; uint8_t of; // ... Flags // ... XMM }; Instructions that read or write to RAX will load/store to State->rax. If we play our cards right, the optimizer will use the mem2reg pass to translate this into SSA form for us and enable further optimizations. An important difference to an actual CPU is that flags are modelled as independent 8-bit registers. This makes it easier to reason about compared to a packed bitfield. For instance, it helps the optimizer to perform dead store elimination and propagation. In addition to the State, we need an opaque memory pointer that helps us differentiate a load/store in the State from memory accesses by the x86 CPU. In short: the State pointer is used to model the CPU and the memory pointer is used to model the RAM. While lifting, the prototype of the lifted function is void lifted(State* state, void* memory). Later on we will perform brightening, to turn this into something we can recompile. Below is the LLVM IR for the instruction mov rax, rcx, with comments in pseudo-C: define internal void @lifted_0x140001000(ptr %state, ptr %memory) { initialize: ; uint64_t* rcx = &state->rcx; %rcx = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 2 ; uint64_t* rax = &state->rax; %rax = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 0 ; Jump to the first instruction br label %insn_0x140001000 insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize ; uint64_t v0 = *rcx; %0 = load i64, ptr %rcx, align 4 ; *rax = v0; store i64 %0, ptr %rax, align 4 ; Jump to the next instruction br label %insn_0x140001003 insn_0x140001003: ; preds = %insn_0x140001000 ; Block terminator to keep the IR valid ret void } We start out with the initialize block, which is used to get pointers to the relevant State members. Then every instruction gets its own basic block named insn_<addr>. Every instruction is responsible for emitting an unconditional branch to its successors. The basic block for the successor is created with just a ret terminator, to keep the module verifier happy. To illustrate memory accesses, here is the LLVM IR for mov rax, qword [rbx+42]: define internal void @lifted_0x140001000(ptr %state, ptr %memory) { initialize: %rbx = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 1 %rax = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 0 br label %insn_0x140001000 insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize ; uint64_t v0 = *rbx; %0 = load i64, ptr %rbx, align 4 ; uint64_t v1 = v0 + 42; %1 = add i64 %0, 42 ; uint8_t* v2 = &memory[v1]; %2 = getelementptr i8, ptr %memory, i64 %1 ; uint64_t v3 = *(uint64_t*)v2; %3 = load i64, ptr %2, align 1 ; *rax = v3; store i64 %3, ptr %rax, align 4 br label %insn_0x140001004 insn_0x140001004: ; preds = %insn_0x140001000 ret void } Here you can see the getelementptr i8, ptr %memory, i64 %1 instruction which uses memory as a base, signaling that this is a read from the x86 memory (we will clean this up later). The lifter itself is contained in a ~500 line Semantics class with these main functions (some are omitted for brevity): # src/striga/semantics.py class Semantics: def __init__(self, module: Module): ... # Lifting def begin(self, address: int) -> Function: ... def get_or_create_block(self, address: int) -> BasicBlock: ... def lift_bytes(self, address: int, code: bytes) -> list[Successor]: ... # Semantic helpers def reg_read(self, name: str) -> Value: ... def reg_write(self, name: str, value: Value): ... def mem_read(self, addr: Value, ty: Type) -> Value: ... def mem_write(self, addr: Value, value: Value): ... def op_mem(self, op: X86Op) -> Value: ... def op_read(self, index: int) -> Value: ... def op_write(self, index: int, value: Value): ... def flag_read(self, name: str) -> Value: ... def flag_write(self, name: str, value: Value): ... # State (simplified) module: Module function: Function ir: Builder insn: CsInsn The begin(address) function is used to create the lifted_<address> function in LLVM IR and create the initialize block with a branch to the first instruction: def begin(self, address: int) -> Function: name = f"lifted_{hex(address)}" fn = self.module.get_function(name) if fn is None: fn = self.module.add_function(name, self.lifted_ty) fn.param_attributes(0).add("noalias") fn.param_attributes(1).add("noalias") state, memory = fn.params memory.name = "memory" state.name = "state" self.function = fn self.reg_ptrs = {} self.insn_blocks = {} entry = fn.append_basic_block("initialize") assert fn.last_basic_block == entry with entry.create_builder() as ir: ir.br(self.get_or_create_block(address)) else: # Omitted for brevity return self.function To create the instruction block, get_or_create_block is used: def get_or_create_block(self, address: int) -> BasicBlock: block = self.insn_blocks.get(address) if block is None: block = self.function.append_basic_block(f"insn_{hex(address)}") with block.create_builder() as ir: ir.ret_void() self.insn_blocks[address] = block assert block.function == self.function return block As mentioned above, an empty block is not valid LLVM IR so we populate it with a ret instruction. When actually lifting into the basic block, that instruction will be replaced with the lifted code. To lift a single instruction we pass its address and bytes to lift_bytes, which is responsible for producing LLVM IR: def lift_bytes(self, address: int, code: bytes) -> list[Successor]: # Ensure we have a function to lift into if not hasattr(self, "function"): self.begin(address) insn = self.cs_disasm(address, code) if self.verbose: print(";", hex(insn.address), insn.mnemonic, insn.op_str) # Skip lifting if the block is already populated block = self.get_or_create_block(address) assert block.first_instruction if block.first_instruction.opcode == Opcode.Ret: block.first_instruction.erase_from_parent() else: return [] with block.create_builder() as ir: # State used by semantic handlers self.ir = ir self.insn = insn handler = _semantics.get(insn.mnemonic) if handler is None and insn.mnemonic.startswith("lock "): # LOCK preserves the single-threaded architectural result; the # lifter does not model inter-thread atomicity separately. handler = _semantics.get(insn.mnemonic.removeprefix("lock ")) if handler is None: raise NotImplementedError(insn.mnemonic) successors = handler(self) if successors is None: # Linear fallthrough - handler didn't emit a terminator. fallthrough = address + insn.size ir.br(self.get_or_create_block(fallthrough)) successors = [Successor(address, self.const64(fallthrough))] # Make sure the handler produced valid IR self.module.verify_or_raise() return successors The function first ensures an empty insn_<address> block by removing the temporary ret instruction. Then it creates an IR Builder and calls the handler responsible for producing IR for the instruction being lifted (more on that below). If the handler does not return successors, lift_bytes handles the common fallthrough case by creating a basic block for the next instruction. It is up to the caller to handle the list of Successor tuples: class Successor(NamedTuple): src: int dst: Value We use an LLVM Value for the branch destination, because it is not always concrete (for example jmp reg). The semantic handlers are registered globally: # src/striga/semantic.py SemanticFn: TypeAlias = Callable[["Semantics"], list[Successor] | None] _semantics: dict[str, SemanticFn] = {} def semantic(fn: SemanticFn): name = getattr(fn, "__name__") _semantics[name.removesuffix("_")] = fn return fn # src/striga/x86/data.py @semantic def mov(sem: Semantics): value = sem.op_read(1) sem.op_write(0, value) Every handler gets an instance of Semantics, to allow easy access to x86 constructs like operands, registers, flags and memory. For example, op_read is implemented as follows: def op_read(self, index: int) -> Value: op: X86Op = self.insn.operands[index] if op.type == CS_OP_REG: name = self.reg_name(op.reg) # pyright: ignore[reportAssignmentType] return self.reg_read(name) if op.type == CS_OP_IMM: return self.const_n(op.imm, op.size * 8) if op.type == CS_OP_MEM: addr = self.op_mem(op) return self.mem_read(addr, self.types.int_n(op.size * 8)) assert False For our example mov rax, rcx, the function will forward to reg_read: def reg_read(self, name: str) -> Value: if name in self.reg_types: load = self.ir.load(self.reg_types[name], self.reg_ptr(name)) load.metadata["tbaa"] = self.tbaa_tags[name] return load full_name, size, bit_offset = self.subregs[name] load = self.ir.load(self.reg_types[full_name], self.reg_ptr(full_name)) load.metadata["tbaa"] = self.tbaa_tags[full_name] if bit_offset: load = self.ir.lshr(load, self.const64(bit_offset)) return self.ir.trunc(load, self.types.int_n(size)) This function transparently handles accesses to sub registers like eax, ax, al and ah and it returns an LLVM Value containing the loaded register value. The last missing piece is the reg_ptr function, which is responsible for creating the getelementptr in the function entry: def reg_ptr(self, name: str) -> Value: reg_ptr = self.reg_ptrs.get(name) if reg_ptr is not None: return reg_ptr entry = self.function.entry_block state = self.function.get_param(0) with entry.create_builder() as ir: ir.position_before(entry.terminator) reg_ptr = ir.struct_gep(self.state_ty, state, self.reg_indices[name], name) self.reg_ptrs[name] = reg_ptr return reg_ptr To help the optimizer we add TBAA Metadata to the register load/store instructions. In this case we know that a register loads/stores never alias with each other. By telling the optimizer about this, it can perform more aggressive dead-store elimination when optimizing a sequence of lifted instructions. Semantics So far we discussed the architecture of the lifter, but we only discussed the mov instruction so far. Almost every other instruction has more complex behavior, especially around flag handling. For instance here are the implementations of and/or/xor: # src/striga/x86/bitwise.py def write_logical_flags(sem: Semantics, result: Value): false = sem.const_n(0, 1) sem.flag_write("cf", false) sem.flag_write("pf", sem.result_parity_even(result)) sem.flag_write_undef("af") sem.flag_write("zf", sem.result_is_zero(result)) sem.flag_write("sf", sem.result_sign_bit(result)) sem.flag_write("of", false) def logical_binop(sem: Semantics, opcode: Opcode): dst = sem.op_read(0) src = sem.resize_int(sem.op_read(1), dst.type) result = sem.ir.binop(opcode, dst, src) sem.op_write(0, result) write_logical_flags(sem, result) @semantic def and_(sem: Semantics): logical_binop(sem, Opcode.And) @semantic def or_(sem: Semantics): logical_binop(sem, Opcode.Or) @semantic def xor(sem: Semantics): logical_binop(sem, Opcode.Xor) For reference here is the lifted LLVM IR for xor rax, rbx and the Python code responsible for each part: insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize ; dst = sem.reg_read(0) %0 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 ; src = sem.resize_int(sem.op_read(1), dst.type) %1 = load i64, ptr %rbx, align 4 ; result = sem.ir.binop(Opcode.Xor, dst, src) %2 = xor i64 %0, %1 ; sem.op_write(0, result) store i64 %2, ptr %rax, align 4 ; sem.flag_write("cf", false) store i8 0, ptr %cf, align 1 ; sem.flag_write("pf", sem.result_parity_even(result)) %3 = trunc i64 %2 to i8 %4 = lshr i8 %3, 4 %5 = xor i8 %3, %4 %6 = lshr i8 %5, 2 %7 = xor i8 %5, %6 %8 = lshr i8 %7, 1 %9 = xor i8 %7, %8 %10 = and i8 %9, 1 %11 = icmp eq i8 %10, 0 %12 = zext i1 %11 to i8 store i8 %12, ptr %pf, align 1 ; sem.flag_write_undef("af") %13 = call i1 @__striga_undef_af(i64 5368713216) %14 = zext i1 %13 to i8 store i8 %14, ptr %af, align 1 ; sem.flag_write("zf", sem.result_is_zero(result)) %15 = icmp eq i64 %2, 0 %16 = zext i1 %15 to i8 store i8 %16, ptr %zf, align 1 ; sem.flag_write("sf", sem.result_sign_bit(result)) %17 = lshr i64 %2, 63 %18 = trunc i64 %17 to i1 %19 = zext i1 %18 to i8 store i8 %19, ptr %sf, align 1 ; sem.flag_write("of", false) store i8 0, ptr %of, align 1 ; Semantics.lift_bytes br label %insn_0x140001003 If you pay close attention you see a call to __striga_undef_af, which is a custom intrinsic used to represent something that has no clear analog in LLVM IR. In this case the description of the xor instruction says: The OF and CF flags are cleared; the SF, ZF, and PF flags are set according to the result. The state of the AF flag is undefined. This means that Intel/AMD does not want to document exactly how the value of AF is computed in silicon. In practice this can vary between CPU models/generations and it can be used as an anti-emulation trick, but we will not go into detail in this post. We emit __striga_undef_af, to allow the user to handle this however they see fit. If you are interested there is remill#766 with a little discussion about how to model this correctly. Another class of instructions to highlight here is the various branch instructions: # src/striga/x86/control.py def conditional_jump(sem: Semantics, cond: Value): brtrue = sem.insn.operands[0].imm brfalse = sem.insn.address + sem.insn.size sem.ir.cond_br( cond, sem.get_or_create_block(brtrue), sem.get_or_create_block(brfalse), ) src = sem.insn.address return [ Successor(src, sem.const64(brtrue)), Successor(src, sem.const64(brfalse)), ] def jcc(sem: Semantics, cc: str): return conditional_jump(sem, cc_cond(sem, cc)) @semantic def je(sem: Semantics): return jcc(sem, "e") @semantic def jmp(sem: Semantics): dst = sem.op_read(0) if dst.is_constant: sem.ir.br(sem.get_or_create_block(dst.const_zext_value)) else: sem.ir.call(sem.jmp_handler, [dst]) sem.ir.ret_void() return [Successor(sem.insn.address, dst)] @semantic def call(sem: Semantics): dst = sem.op_read(0) fallthrough = sem.insn.address + sem.insn.size sem.push(sem.const64(fallthrough)) sem.ir.call(sem.call_handler, [dst]) sem.ir.br(sem.get_or_create_block(fallthrough)) return [Successor(sem.insn.address, sem.const64(fallthrough))] @semantic def ret(sem: Semantics): dst = sem.pop(sem.i64) if sem.insn.operands: rsp = sem.reg_read("rsp") sem.reg_write("rsp", sem.ir.add(rsp, sem.const64(sem.insn.operands[0].imm))) sem.ir.call(sem.ret_handler, [dst]) sem.ir.ret_void() return [Successor(sem.insn.address, dst)] LLVM IR for je imm: insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize %0 = load i8, ptr %zf, align 1 %1 = icmp ne i8 %0, 0 br i1 %1, label %insn_0x140001014, label %insn_0x140001002 insn_0x140001014: ; preds = %insn_0x140001000 ret void insn_0x140001002: ; preds = %insn_0x140001000 ret void } Note that the semantic handler for jcc is responsible for creating both the destination blocks as well as the br with the appropriate condition based on the flag(s). LLVM IR for jmp rbx: insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize %0 = load i64, ptr %rbx, align 4 call void @__striga_jmp(i64 %0) ret void LLVM IR for call imm: insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize %0 = load i64, ptr %rsp, align 4 %1 = sub i64 %0, 8 store i64 %1, ptr %rsp, align 4 %2 = getelementptr i8, ptr %memory, i64 %1 store i64 5368713221, ptr %2, align 1 call void @__striga_call(i64 5369761797) br label %insn_0x140001005 LLVM IR for ret: insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize %0 = load i64, ptr %rsp, align 4 %1 = getelementptr i8, ptr %memory, i64 %0 %2 = load i64, ptr %1, align 1 %3 = add i64 %0, 8 store i64 %3, ptr %rsp, align 4 call void @__striga_ret(i64 %2) ret void } As you can see, we use the following intrinsics: __striga_jmp: indirect jump __striga_call: call instruction __striga_ret: ret instruction These are also used to give the user flexibility in how they want to handle these instructions. Control flow Because of the design choice where every instruction is a basic block, it becomes fairly straightforward to recover the control flow of a basic function: def lift(module: Module, container: Container, start: int, *, verbose=True): sem = Semantics(module, verbose=verbose) lifted_fn = sem.begin(start) queue: Queue[Successor] = Queue() queue.put(Successor(0, sem.const64(start))) # Keep destinations as LLVM Values instead of splitting constants into ints. # This keeps the worklist uniform and matches later slicing/data-flow uses. visited: set[Value] = set() while not queue.empty(): src, dst = queue.get() if not dst.is_constant: if sem.verbose: print(f"; non-constant branch destination: {hex(src)} -> {dst}") continue if dst in visited: continue visited.add(dst) va = dst.const_zext_value code = container.get_data(va, 15) successors = sem.lift_bytes(va, code) for successor in successors: if successor.dst in visited: continue queue.put(successor) sem.module.verify_or_raise() return lifted_fn This is a simple Breadth-first search over the control flow graph and it allows recovering functions without indirect branches. Note that we do not have to do anything special to handle back edges (loops) or block splitting. The lifted code is modeled with an LLVM basic block per instruction, so we can connect instructions arbitrarily. Below is a function with some simple control flow (if/else/loop): test_cfg: cmp rax, 0 je .else_block .if_true: add rax, 1 jmp .merge .else_block: add rax, 2 .merge: sub rax, 1 jne .merge .exit: ret The graph of the disassembly looks like this: The LLVM IR looks like this: define internal void @lifted_0x140001000(ptr %state, ptr %memory) { initialize: %rax = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 0 %zf = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 51 %rsp = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 6 br label %insn_0x140001000 insn_0x140001000: ; preds = %initialize ; cmp rax, 0 %0 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 %1 = sub i64 %0, 0 %19 = icmp eq i64 %1, 0 %20 = zext i1 %19 to i8 store i8 %20, ptr %zf, align 1 br label %insn_0x140001004 insn_0x140001004: ; preds = %insn_0x140001000 ; je 0x14000100c %30 = load i8, ptr %zf, align 1 %31 = icmp ne i8 %30, 0 br i1 %31, label %insn_0x14000100c, label %insn_0x140001006 insn_0x14000100c: ; preds = %insn_0x140001004 ; add rax, 2 %32 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 %33 = add i64 %32, 2 store i64 %33, ptr %rax, align 4 br label %insn_0x140001010 insn_0x140001006: ; preds = %insn_0x140001004 ; add rax, 1 %62 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 %63 = add i64 %62, 1 store i64 %63, ptr %rax, align 4 br label %insn_0x14000100a insn_0x140001010: ; preds = %insn_0x140001014, %insn_0x14000100a, %insn_0x14000100c ; sub rax, 1 %92 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 %93 = sub i64 %92, 1 store i64 %93, ptr %rax, align 4 %111 = icmp eq i64 %93, 0 %112 = zext i1 %111 to i8 store i8 %112, ptr %zf, align 1 br label %insn_0x140001014 insn_0x14000100a: ; preds = %insn_0x140001006 ; jmp 0x140001010 br label %insn_0x140001010 insn_0x140001014: ; preds = %insn_0x140001010 ; jne 0x140001010 %122 = load i8, ptr %zf, align 1 %123 = icmp ne i8 %122, 0 %124 = xor i1 %123, true br i1 %124, label %insn_0x140001010, label %insn_0x140001016 insn_0x140001016: ; preds = %insn_0x140001014 ; ret %125 = load i64, ptr %rsp, align 4 %126 = getelementptr i8, ptr %memory, i64 %125 %127 = load i64, ptr %126, align 1 %128 = add i64 %125, 8 store i64 %128, ptr %rsp, align 4 call void @__striga_ret(i64 %127) ret void } For clarity, some flag computations were omitted from this IR dump. Brightening Brightening was a term coined in 2019 by Peter Garba and Matteo Favaro in the SATURN paper: Brightening [COMP.] verb – Reshaping code to make it more readable and understandable for humans Concretely it means to transform the LLVM IR from the lifted shape (pseudo C): /* Lifted instructions: add rdi, rsi mov rax, rdi ret */ void lifted(State* state, void* memory) { state.rdi += state.rsi; state.rax = state.rdi; __striga_ret(...); } Back to a regular function for the lifted platform’s calling convention, such as: // Linux calling convention: https://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI#x86-64 uint64_t /* rax */ brightened(uint64_t /* rdi */ x, uint64_t /* rsi */ y) { return x + y; } The brightened function sets up the State on the stack and assigns the arguments to the registers appropriate for the calling convention of our target platform. The result register is returned from the function. Conceptually this is not very difficult, but it requires a bit of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the trick: // Symbolic variable for memory uint8_t RAM[0]; void lifted(State* state, void* memory) { ... } uint64_t brightened(uint64_t x, uint64_t y) { State state; state.rdi = x; state.rsi = y; lifted(&state, RAM); return state.rax; } After an inlining pass it would look something like this: uint64_t brightened(uint64_t x, uint64_t y) { State state; state.rdi = x; state.rsi = y; state.rdi += state.rsi; state.rax = state.rdi; __striga_ret(...); return state.rax; } We can get rid of the __striga_ret intrinsic in this case, which will let the optimizer reduce the function to its original shape: uint64_t brightened(uint64_t x, uint64_t y) { return x + y; } LLVM IR before optimizations: define i64 @brightened_0x1000(i64 %0, i64 %1) { entry: %state = alloca %State, align 8 %rdi = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 5 store i64 %0, ptr %rdi, align 4 %rsi = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 4 store i64 %1, ptr %rsi, align 4 %stack = alloca i8, i64 4096, align 1 %2 = getelementptr i8, ptr %stack, i64 4088 %3 = ptrtoint ptr %2 to i64 %rsp = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 6 store i64 %3, ptr %rsp, align 4 store i64 3735928559, ptr %2, align 1 call void @lifted_0x1000(ptr %state, ptr @RAM) %rax = getelementptr inbounds nuw %State, ptr %state, i32 0, i32 0 %4 = load i64, ptr %rax, align 4 ret i64 %4 } After optimizing the module with default<O1>: define i64 @brightened_0x1000(i64 %0, i64 %1) { entry: %2 = add i64 %1, %0 ret i64 %2 } Memory / Stack To handle memory accesses, we create a global RAM variable and pass that to our memory argument. In the previous example it folded away, but we need to handle it separately. The simplest form is access to a pointer parameter: uint64_t lift4_read(uint64_t *n) { return *n ^ 1337; } With our current brightening strategy the lifted code (after optimizations) would look like this: define i64 @brightened_0x1000(i64 %0) { entry: %1 = getelementptr i8, ptr @RAM, i64 %0 %2 = load i64, ptr %1, align 1, !alias.scope !19, !noalias !22 %3 = xor i64 %2, 1337 ret i64 %3 } We need to detect the getelementptr i8, ptr @RAM, i64 %0 shape and replace it with an inttoptr instruction: define i64 @brightened_0x1000(i64 %0) { entry: %1 = inttoptr i64 %0 to ptr %2 = load i64, ptr %1, align 1, !alias.scope !19, !noalias !22 %3 = xor i64 %2, 1337 ret i64 %3 } The stack can be modeled by allocating a local stack variable and pointing rsp to the end of that buffer (since on x86 the stack grows towards lower addresses): uint64_t brightened(uint64_t x, uint64_t y) { uint8_t stack[4096]; State state; state.rdi = x; state.rsi = y; state.rsp = (uint64_t)&stack[sizeof(stack) - 8]; lifted(&state, RAM); return state.rax; } Putting everything together in brighten.py: from llvm import Linkage, Module, Opcode, Value, global_context from bfs import lift_bfs from container import Container, RawContainer OPT_PIPELINE = "default<O1>" def rewrite_ram_geps(module: Module, ram: Value): """Replace GEPs rooted at @RAM with inttoptr(address).""" types = module.context.types for gep in ram.users: if not gep.is_instruction or gep.opcode != Opcode.GetElementPtr: raise ValueError(f"unexpected @RAM user: {gep}") if gep.get_operand(0) != ram: raise ValueError(f"unexpected @RAM GEP base: {gep}") if gep.num_operands == 2: if gep.gep_source_element_type != types.i8: raise ValueError(f"expected i8 ptradd-style @RAM GEP: {gep}") address = gep.get_operand(1) elif gep.num_operands == 3: zero = gep.get_operand(1) if not zero.is_constant_int or zero.const_zext_value != 0: raise ValueError(f"expected zero first @RAM GEP index: {gep}") address = gep.get_operand(2) else: raise ValueError(f"unexpected @RAM GEP shape: {gep}") with gep.create_builder() as ir: ptr = ir.inttoptr(address, types.ptr) gep.replace_all_uses_with(ptr) gep.erase_from_parent() if not ram.users: ram.delete_global() module.verify_or_raise() def define_ret_stub(module: Module): """Make the modeled return hook removable for this demo wrapper.""" ret_handler = module.get_function("__striga_ret") if ret_handler is not None and ret_handler.is_declaration: ret_handler.linkage = Linkage.Internal entry = ret_handler.append_basic_block("entry") with entry.create_builder() as ir: ir.ret_void() def lift_brightened(container: Container, entry: int, args: list[str]): with global_context().create_module("blog") as module: sem = lift_bfs(module, container, entry, verbose=True) # Convenience aliases types = module.context.types i8 = types.i8 i64 = types.i64 # Global RAM array ram = module.add_global(types.array(i8, 0), "RAM") # TODO: support different register sizes brightened_ty = types.function(i64, [i64 for _ in args]) brightened = module.add_function(f"brightened_{hex(entry)}", brightened_ty) with brightened.create_builder() as ir: state = ir.alloca(sem.state_ty, "state") def reg_ptr(name: str) -> Value: return ir.struct_gep(sem.state_ty, state, sem.reg_indices[name], name) # Assign arguments to register state for i, name in enumerate(args): ir.store(brightened.get_param(i), reg_ptr(name)) # Set up function stack stack = ir.alloca(i8, i64.constant(4096), "stack") stack_ptr = ir.gep(i8, stack, [i64.constant(4096 - 8)]) ir.store(ir.ptrtoint(stack_ptr, i64), reg_ptr("rsp")) # Set up return address retaddr_store = ir.store(i64.constant(0xDEADBEEF), stack_ptr) retaddr_store.inst_alignment = 1 # Call lifted function ir.call(sem.function, [state, ram]) # Load return value from rax and return it ir.ret(ir.load(i64, reg_ptr("rax"))) module.verify_or_raise() # 1. 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    Microsoft Discovery is a cloud-based enterprise platform that uses agentic AI — software that can plan and independently execute multi-step research tasks without constant human input — to accelerate research and development (R&D). Announced at Microsoft Build 2025 and now in expanded preview as of April 2026, it combines specialized AI agents, a graph-based knowledge engine, and high-performance computing (HPC — large-scale cloud server clusters for compute-intensive simulations) on Azure. The platform targets organizations in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, materials science, semiconductor design, and general engineering. You interact with it through a conversational interface orchestrated by Microsoft Copilot. General availability has not been announced. Source
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    The May 2026 Security Update Review
    I’m currently in Berlin helping set up for Pwn2Own Berlin, but that doesn’t stop Patch Tuesday from coming, and it’s another big one. At least nothing is listed as being in the wild – for now. Take a break from your regularly scheduled activities and let’s take a look at the latest security patches from Adobe and Microsoft. Due to technical difficulties, there will not be a video companion for this month. Adobe Patches for May 2026 For May, Adobe released 10 bulletins addressing 52 unique CVEs in Adobe Commerce, After Effects, Adobe Connect, Illustrator, Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Content Authenticity SDK, and the Adobe Substance 3D Designer. Here’s this month’s overview table: Bulletin ID Product CVE Count Highest Severity High…
    The Apple macOS Security Update Review
    We’ve received some feedback from those who read the Patch Blog that they would like something similar for macOS updates. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t schedule these for a particular day, but we can provide our thoughts and analysis on the days they do release their latest patches. For May 2026, Apple released 82 unique CVEs across the three macOS versions: 79 for macOS Tahoe 26.5, 45 for macOS Sequoia 15.7.7, and 42 for macOS Sonoma 14.8.7. Since Apple doesn’t provide CVSS scores or other severity information, we’re left to speculate on which of these bugs is the most severe. However, there are a couple that stand out. -              CVE-2026-28819 (Wi-Fi) stands out as the strongest candidate for the most severe as it states, “An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel pri…
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    Jamf spotlighted in Okta Businesses at Work 2026 Report
    Jamf earns a top 15 ranking and leads retail growth in Okta's 2026 report, a powerful validation of Apple security's role in the enterprise.  ( 7 min )
    Jamf Nation Live 2026 recap
    Jamf Nation Live (JNL) is a great way to connect with other admins and Jamfs alike. Did you miss it this year? Get a recap of this year's JNLs.  ( 5 min )
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    The beast needs a cage: What's next for AppSec post-Mythos
    Now that the dust has settled on Mythos dropping, there is space for more considered reflection on the direction of travel. Mythos wasn't a surprise; it's another data point on a trajectory that's bee  ( 9 min )
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    Introducing Wiz Audit History: Track Every Change Across your Environment
    Wiz Audit History is now GA, providing a continuous, cross-cloud timeline of changes to resource configurations and findings to accelerate incident response and simplify compliance.  ( 52 min )
    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: TanStack + more npm Packages Compromised
    Detect and mitigate malicious npm packages linked to the latest Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign targeting high-value developer tooling.  ( 57 min )
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    Introducing Joro: Using AI to Build Security Tooling
    Bishop Fox is releasing Joro, a collaborative web exploitation framework built almost entirely with AI. From intercepting proxy to C2 integration, this post covers how it was built, what it does, and what AI-assisted security tool development actually looks like in practice.  ( 9 min )
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    Go fuzzing was missing half the toolkit. We forked the toolchain to fix it.
    Go’s native fuzzing is useful, but it stands far behind state-of-the-art tooling that the Rust, C, and C++ ecosystems offer with LibAFL and AFL++. Path constraints are hard to solve. Structured inputs usually need handmade parsing. It doesn’t even detect several common bug classes, such as integer overflows, goroutine leaks, data races, and execution timeouts. So to make it better, we built gosentry, a fuzzing-oriented fork of the Go toolchain that keeps the standard testing.F workflow while using a stronger fuzzing stack underneath to tackle those issues. With gosentry, go test -fuzz uses LibAFL by default. It can fuzz structs natively, run grammar-based fuzzing with Nautilus, detect bug classes that it couldn’t detect before, and create a fuzzing campaign coverage report in one command. …  ( 5 min )
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    Elastic Security MCP App: Interactive security operations inside your AI Tools
    Elastic Security is the first security vendor to ship an interactive UI in AI tools. Triage alerts, hunt threats, correlate attack chains, and open cases, all from inside your AI conversation.  ( 24 min )

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    When Windows Update hangs: automatic recovery for update failures patches update experience
    Microsoft has introduced a new mechanism to handle update installation failures on Windows 11: Windows now attempts to repair a failing update in real time during installation rather than rolling back immediately. This feature, called "automatic recovery for update failures," reduces the number of devices left in a failed-update state that requires manual troubleshooting. Administrators should note that this feature is distinct from—and should not be confused with—boot-level recovery, which is a separate safety net for devices that fail to start up after Patch Tuesday. Source
    Microsoft Intune April-May 2026: app inventory, Linux SSO, and Apple ADE
    Microsoft Intune's April and May 2026 updates deliver three areas of practical change for administrators: richer and more frequent app inventory for Windows devices, a redesigned single sign-on (SSO) experience for Linux endpoints that replaces an aging authentication component, and automated enrollment support for Apple tvOS and visionOS devices in shared-use scenarios. Hotpatch updates — which apply security fixes without a restart — also become enabled by default for eligible Windows devices in May 2026. Source
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    What’s New with Sara Pentest: Closing the Coverage Gap, One Test at a Time
    Key Takeaways Sara Pentest and Sara Pentest+ Are Now Generally Available Since releasing Sara Pentest as general availability earlier this month, we’ve also shipped a set of platform updates that make it easier to scope, launch, and act on Sara findings at scale. This post walks through what’s new with the Synack PTaaS platform, and […] The post What’s New with Sara Pentest: Closing the Coverage Gap, One Test at a Time appeared first on Synack.  ( 13 min )
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    Wiz at Wiz: Reducing Risk through Service Ownership
    How Wiz security uses Service Catalog to turn cloud risk into service ownership  ( 55 min )
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    Why K-12 students need web filtering that travels with their devices
    In-network filtering stops securing online activity the moment students leave campus, but Jamf Safe Internet delivers consistent content filtering everywhere they go.  ( 6 min )

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    The Accidental C2 - Exploring Dev Tunnels for Remote Access
    Dev Tunnels aren’t “just port forwarding”. They consist of layers of embedded protocols with RPC messages being exchanged. Once you peel the layers, you quickly see how Dev Tunnels are a C2 framework with extra steps.  ( 12 min )
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    Copy Fail and DirtyFrag: Linux Page Cache Bugs in the Wild
    This research analyzes the Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities Copy Fail and DirtyFrag, which exploit subtle page cache corruption bugs to create reliable paths to root access. Additionally, Elastic Security Labs is releasing detection logic for these vulnerabilities.  ( 16 min )

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    What the Canvas breach tells us about the state of education security
    The Canvas incident reflects systemic patterns in how education technology is deployed and how trust gets extended. Learn how to protect your school.  ( 8 min )
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    New TeamViewer connector in Microsoft Intune: remote control for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
    TeamViewer is a remote assistance solution that lets you remotely connect to and control Intune-managed Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS/iPadOS devices directly from the Intune admin center to support your users. Microsoft Intune's April 2026 update (service release 2604) introduces a redesigned TeamViewer connector for remote assistance. The new connector replaces the existing one with a simplified setup process and adds SSO (single sign-on) support, device group synchronization, and granular role-based permissions. If you still use the old connector, you have 12 months to migrate before it stops working. This article explains what changed, what you need, and how to configure the new connector. Source
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    A Framework for AI Threat Readiness
    AI models now find and exploit zero-days autonomously. This 4-pillar framework accelerates patching, analysis, and threat response.  ( 67 min )
    See and Secure Everything at the Edge with Wiz and Akamai
    Akamai edge configurations are now visible on the Wiz Security Graph, giving teams a single understanding of risk from edge to runtime  ( 53 min )
    Dirty Frag: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation via ESP and RxRPC
    Unpatched kernel flaw chain (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) enables root escalation on major Linux distributions.  ( 51 min )
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    What Comes Before Tickets
    TL;DR: A year ago, my company handed me a project bigger than anything I’d worked on before. The project was OpenGraph, the new extensibility foundation for a cybersecurity tool called BloodHound, and this essay is partly about building it. Mostly it’s about what happens when an engineer leaves the comfortable bounds of individual ownership and […] The post What Comes Before Tickets appeared first on SpecterOps.  ( 26 min )
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    Otto Support - The Confused Deputy
    When an agent reads attacker-controlled content and acts on it using its own privileges, the user's name ends up on every audit log entry. From Microsoft Copilot to ConfusedPilot, this post walks through how confused deputy attacks work and the layered controls that help contain them.  ( 8 min )
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    Detecting Web Server Probing & Fuzzing in Traefik with Automated Cloudflare Response
    This article shows how a customized Elastic Security ES|QL detection rule can identify web server probing and fuzzing activity in Traefik logs and automatically block the attacking IP via Cloudflare.  ( 22 min )

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    New Group Policy for Windows Update maintenance window in Windows 11 25H2
    Windows 11 version 25H2 introduces a new Group Policy setting, Configure maintenance windows for automatic updates, that lets you define precise time windows for downloading, installing, and restarting after updates. The policy ships with version 3.0 of the ADMX administrative templates and is currently available only in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds. It takes priority over several existing update-related policies, but the interaction rules are only partially documented. Source
    Sensitivity labels now in Microsoft 365 web apps
    Microsoft is rolling out a long-overdue change to the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: you can now apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions directly in the web apps without switching to the desktop client. Sensitivity labels are classification tags you attach to a file to control who can read, edit, or print it. They are configured centrally in Microsoft Purview (Microsoft's compliance and information protection platform) and enforced by the Rights Management Service (RMS), which is the encryption engine built into Microsoft 365. This update started rolling out in mid-April 2026 and is expected to be completed worldwide by early May 2026. It requires enabling coauthoring on encrypted files in your tenant beforehand. Source
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    Shift Happens – Uncovering Two Built-in Command Injections in Windows Context Menus
    TL;DR: Two command injection vulnerabilities exist in the Windows Explorer “Open PowerShell window here” context menu due to improper quoting and command injection through user-controlled folder paths. By creating folders with crafted names (e.g., folder; calc), an attacker can trigger arbitrary PowerShell command execution when a user uses Shift + Right-Click → Open PowerShell window […] The post Shift Happens – Uncovering Two Built-in Command Injections in Windows Context Menus appeared first on SpecterOps.  ( 18 min )
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    Spring cleaning your browser
    Clean up your browser by removing unneeded extensions, clearing cached data, scanning for info-stealing malware, and more.  ( 27 min )
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    Otto Support - SSRF and Token Passthrough with MCP
    SSRF and token passthrough are not new, but MCP servers are reintroducing them at scale. From a chained SSRF-to-RCE in mcp-atlassian to Microsoft's MarkItDown and OpenClaw, this post walks through three recent disclosures and the controls that actually prevent them.  ( 10 min )
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    Build Fast, Build Secure: Wiz findings are now in Lovable
    With Wiz in Lovable, every builder can catch and fix risks in real time, keeping apps secure as they’re created  ( 52 min )
    It's Time to Go After Achieving Zero Code Criticals
    Ready to hit Zero Code Criticals? Here's how Wiz helps you get there and stay there, with the badge to prove you did.  ( 52 min )
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    PCPJack | Cloud Worm Evicts TeamPCP and Steals Credentials at Scale
    Cloud attack framework skips cryptomining, harvests financial, messaging, and enterprise credentials for fraud, spam, and potential extortion.  ( 34 min )
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    PCPJack | Cloud Worm Evicts TeamPCP and Steals Credentials at Scale
    Cloud attack framework skips cryptomining, harvests financial, messaging, and enterprise credentials for fraud, spam, and potential extortion.  ( 34 min )
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    TCLBANKER: Brazilian Banking Trojan Spreading via WhatsApp and Outlook
    REF3076 uses a trojanized Logitech installer to deploy TCLBANKER, a Brazilian banking trojan with environment-gated payloads, WPF fraud overlays, and self-propagating WhatsApp and Outlook worm modules.  ( 53 min )

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    Gain faster updates and real-time fleet visibility with DDM
    Read our e-book to discover how Declarative Device Management (DDM) can help your organization scale up with faster updates, proactive compliance and real-time fleet visibility.  ( 5 min )
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    Windows 11 April 2026 new features: app removal, SID hardening, and hotpatch default
    The April 2026 Windows update cycle includes several changes that matter to IT administrators. Source
    Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC): a new, open networking protocol for AI supercomputers
    OpenAI, together with AMD, Broadcom, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, published a new paper describing MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new networking protocol designed for large AI training clusters. MRC addresses two of the most critical problems in these networks: traffic congestion and link failures. The protocol is already deployed in production at OpenAI and Microsoft data centers. The specification is freely available through the Open Compute Project (OCP) under an open license. Source
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    The Accidental C2: Exploring Dev Tunnels for Remote Access
    Dev Tunnels aren’t "just port forwarding". They consist of layers of embedded protocols with RPC messages being exchanged. Once you peal the layers, you quickly see how Dev Tunnels are a C2 framework with extra steps. The post The Accidental C2: Exploring Dev Tunnels for Remote Access appeared first on SpecterOps.  ( 21 min )
    How We Think about Red Teaming
    TL;DR: Red teaming means different things to different vendors. We discuss how SpecterOps defines it, why engagements start from assumed breach, and what organizations should expect to learn and take away. The terminology problem: not all “red teams” are the same  Organizations today face adversaries that chain together misconfigurations, privileges, and identity exposures across hybrid environments that often […] The post How We Think about Red Teaming appeared first on SpecterOps.  ( 13 min )
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    The Jenkins Threat Landscape
    What usage patterns, plugin adoption, and configuration choices reveal about the Jenkins attack surface.  ( 58 min )
    Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in PAN-OS Exploited in-the-Wild
    Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-0300, a critical vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal that allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) with root privileges.  ( 50 min )
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    LABScon25 Replay | Please Connect to the Foreign Entity to Enhance Your User Experience
    Joe FitzPatrick reveals how consumer imports of networked devices pose a real security risk to small businesses and critical infrastructure alike.  ( 24 min )
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    LABScon25 Replay | Please Connect to the Foreign Entity to Enhance Your User Experience
    Joe FitzPatrick reveals how consumer imports of networked devices pose a real security risk to small businesses and critical infrastructure alike.  ( 24 min )
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    Otto Support - Excessive Agency and Tool Privileges
    AI agents connected to too many tools don't just create risk, they've already caused real damage. From deleted databases to mass-wiped mailboxes, excessive agency has a track record. This post breaks down what it looks like in practice and how role-aware tool registration can help contain it.  ( 8 min )
    CVE-2026-42208: Pre-Authentication SQL Injection in LiteLLM Proxy
    Bishop Fox researchers confirmed a critical pre-authentication SQL injection in LiteLLM proxy affecting versions 1.81.16 through 1.83.6. Attackers can exploit it without credentials, and it blends into normal logs. In-the-wild exploitation was observed within 36 hours of the advisory going public.  ( 13 min )
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    1 little known secret of forfiles.exe, part 2
    In this old post I have demonstrated how to abuse forfiles.exe to run your ‘cmd.exe’ of choice. There is one more trick we can do with this tool. When forfiles.exe enumerates the files it executes a default command cmd /c … Continue reading →  ( 2 min )

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    Microsoft Copilot Cowork: New AI features for Microsoft 365
    Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork moves beyond chat-based AI responses by acting as an autonomous agent—an AI that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and other Microsoft 365 services. Cowork is built on top of Work IQ, Microsoft's intelligence layer that reads your emails, meetings, files, and organizational data to provide context for actions. As of May 2026, Cowork is available through the Frontier preview program and has expanded to include mobile support, custom skills, plugins, and integration with Agent 365. Access requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and enrollment in the Frontier early-access program. Source
    Windows 365 Flex, AVD Hybrid, and pricing changes explained
    Microsoft announced three updates for its cloud desktop products in May 2026: a 20% price cut for Windows 365 Business, a rename of Windows 365 Frontline to Windows 365 Flex, and a public preview of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Hybrid, which lets you run cloud-managed virtual desktops on your own on-premises servers. This article focuses on the technical aspects of these changes, particularly AVD Hybrid, which introduces meaningful new infrastructure options for organizations that cannot fully migrate workloads to Azure. Source
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    Introducing Penetration Test Findings: Unified Offensive Security in Wiz
    Streamline pen-testing by unifying findings from bug bounties, manual audits, and Wiz Red Agent into a single, context-rich view.  ( 52 min )
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    C/C++ checklist challenges, solved
    We recently added a C/C++ security checklist to the Testing Handbook and challenged readers to spot the bugs in two code samples: a deceptively simple Linux ping program and a Windows driver registry handler. If you found the inet_ntoa global buffer gotcha or the missing RTL_QUERY_REGISTRY_TYPECHECK flag, nice work. If not, here’s a full walkthrough of both challenges, plus a deep dive into how the Windows registry type confusion escalates from a local denial of service to a kernel write primitive. Since we first released the new C/C++ security checklist, we also developed a new Claude skill, c-review. It turns the checklist into bug-finding prompts that an LLM can run against a codebase. It’s also platform and threat-model aware. Run these commands to install the skill: The Linux ping pro…  ( 13 min )
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    Know who to watch before the incident finds you
    Elastic Security v9.4 introduces Entity Analytics Watchlists, a way to codify what your team already knows about high-risk entities and feed that context directly into risk scoring, without custom pipelines or detection engineering overhead  ( 15 min )
    AI-generated hunting leads: The hunt starts before you ask the question
    Introducing AI-generated hunting leads, proactive, environment-aware threat hypotheses powered by Elastic Entity analytics and integrated AI reasoning.  ( 11 min )
    Your UEBA is lying to you: Why entity record quality decides everything
    Most entity analytics systems are confidently wrong. They track users who do not exist, generate risk scores built on noise, and call it behavioral analytics. Learn why the entities records you don't create matter as much as the ones you do and how a confidence-tiered model changes the game.  ( 21 min )
    Elastic Workflows GA: automation where your security data already lives
    Elastic Workflows is generally available in 9.4, bringing production-ready security automation with deeper case management integration, human-in-the-loop support, natural language authoring, and more.  ( 22 min )

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    Sara AI Pentesting Is Now Generally Available: The Model Is Changing
    The Model We’ve Relied on Is Starting to Break Over the past 20 years, I’ve seen the threat landscape evolve from opportunistic attackers, to organized cybercrime, to nation-state campaigns. Each shift forced security teams to adapt. What’s happening right now is different. AI models coming out of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and X are rewriting the […] The post Sara AI Pentesting Is Now Generally Available: The Model Is Changing appeared first on Synack.  ( 14 min )
    Continuous Security Validation Is Replacing Periodic Penetration Testing
    Key Takeaways Why the Industry Is Moving from Detection to Validation Over the past year, the conversation around offensive security has changed faster than most enterprise programs have been able to adapt. AI is compressing attacker timelines; cloud and SaaS environments change daily; identity systems, APIs, and infrastructure shift continuously, not quarterly. And still, most […] The post Continuous Security Validation Is Replacing Periodic Penetration Testing appeared first on Synack.  ( 15 min )
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    The Danger of Multi-SSO AWS Cognito User Pools
    After a small detour, the CloudSecTidbits series is back with new episodes. We had the opportunity to present them at the first DEFCON in Singapore few days ago during our DemoLabs sessions. Meeting Singapore’s community was indeed amazing - thanks again for having us! From the Previous Episodes CloudSec Tidbits is a blogpost series showcasing interesting bugs found by Doyensec during cloud security testing activities. We focus on vulnerabilities resulting from an insecure combination of web and cloud related technologies. Every article includes an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) laboratory that can be easily deployed to experiment with the described vulnerability. Time to get ready and dive into a new tidbit. Tidbit No. 4 - The Danger of Multi-SSO User Pools What is AWS Cognito? If you …  ( 9 min )
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    Microsoft 365 Backup: Restore individual files and folders with granular restore
    Microsoft 365 Backup now lets you recover individual files and folders from SharePoint and OneDrive backups without rolling back an entire site or account. This granular restore feature became generally available in late April 2026. You need the SharePoint Backup Administrator role to use it, and the service charges $0.15 per GB per month for protected data. This article explains how the feature works, its limitations, and how to perform a restore. Source
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    Red Canary CFP tracker: May 2026
    Red Canary's monthly roundup of upcoming security conferences and call for papers (CFP) submission deadlines May 2026  ( 25 min )
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    Practical Package Security: The Unofficial Guide
    Get actionable best practices to shrink your attack surface, protect execution environments, control package ingestion, and catch compromises early.  ( 56 min )
    From Foundation to Force: Your Guide to Operationalizing Wiz at Scale
    Following your foundation, operationalize Wiz across development, detection and response, and program maturity so your security program never stops getting stronger.  ( 57 min )
    Meet Wiz for M365: Bringing SaaS into the Security Graph
    Secure Microsoft 365 and the cloud it powers — one platform, one graph, complete context.  ( 54 min )
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    Copirate 365 at DEF CON: Plundering in the Depths of Microsoft Copilot (CVE-2026-24299)
    This is a writeup of my DEF CON Singapore talk that walks through vulnerabilities and exploits in M365 Copilot and Consumer Copilot. I disclosed these to Microsoft last year. MSRC assigned CVE-2026-24299 and the issues are now patched. Contents This turned out to be a long post, covering the 45 minute talk. I added an index page, so you know what’s in here. The talk had a more demos by the way, but I included videos here in this post also.  ( 12 min )
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    Azure Hacking: New Cloudfoxable Challenges
    Cloudfoxable started as a hands-on AWS security training tool. Now it's expanding. Bishop Fox has launched the first set of Azure challenges, giving security professionals a safe, intentionally misconfigured environment to explore identity-driven attack paths and privilege escalation in Azure.  ( 7 min )
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    From plain English to production rule: AI-native Elasticsearch ES|QL detection in Elastic Security
    Elastic Security now lets analysts describe a threat behavior in plain language and receive a complete, validated Elasticsearch ES|QL detection rule in return, no query expertise required.  ( 28 min )
    Elastic Conversational Entity Analytics: threat hunting in a single conversation
    Conversational Entity Analytics delivers Entity Analytics features as rich inline attachments and Canvas previews into Agent Builder, so you don’t have to leave the conversation.
    One agent, the right skills: Elastic Security 9.4 brings domain expertise on demand to every SOC workflow
    Elastic Security 9.4 introduces skills, modular AI capabilities that teach the Elastic AI Agent how to detect, investigate, and hunt like a specialist. This is how they work, and why they matter for the SOC.

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    Exchange Online Change Optics Report: spot mail flow problems before they hit
    Microsoft has released the Change Optics Report in public preview for Exchange Online. This new report, available in the Exchange Admin Center (EAC), identifies emails in your tenant that will be affected when Microsoft enforces an upcoming service change — before the change takes effect. Currently, it covers two scenarios: outbound mail sent from your default onmicrosoft.com domain, and incoming Direct Send traffic. This article explains what the report shows, how to access it, and what steps to take for each scenario. Source
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    Copy Fail: Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    Detect and mitigate Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), an easily exploitable vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allows escalation from an unprivileged local user account to root access.  ( 52 min )
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    Overview of Content Published in April
    Here is an overview of content I published in April: Blog posts: Update: cut-bytes.py Version 0.0.18 SANS ISC Diary entries: A .WAV With A Payload  ( 11 min )
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    3 ways custom scan checks turn practitioner knowledge into scalable automation
    Senior pentesters have a deeply refined intuition about what is vulnerable in an environment. The problem? That expertise is often siloed with an individual and trapped in their notes or Python scripts.  ( 7 min )
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    DFIR: From alert to root cause using Osquery without leaving Elastic Security
    Learn how to perform distributed, real-time Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) using Osquery and Elastic to investigate threats at scale without relying on disk imaging.  ( 29 min )

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    Beyond access: rethinking the complete Apple deployment strategy for education
    As education technology evolves, schools need a complete Apple device management approach that unifies identity, security and insight to support better learning outcomes. Learn how Jamf helps.  ( 9 min )
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    Windows Server 2025 in-place upgrade via Windows Update: prerequisites, steps, and limits
    Starting in mid-April 2026, Microsoft allows you to upgrade Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 directly to Windows Server 2025 through Windows Update — no installation media (ISO file or DVD) required. The process is called an in-place upgrade, meaning your installed applications, settings, and server roles remain unchanged while only the operating system version changes. This article covers the prerequisites, the exact registry change you need to make, the step-by-step procedure for both the graphical desktop and the text-only Server Core installation, and the important cases where you must not use this method. Source
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    Red Agent and Claude Opus: Securing Production Targets at Scale
    Delivering enterprise-grade continuous AI-powered risk assessment to hundreds of customers through the combined power of Wiz and Anthropic  ( 51 min )
    The (In)security Landscape of AI-Powered GitHub Actions (Part 2/2)
    When AI meets CI/CD: permission bypasses, prompt injection, and what to do about it.  ( 62 min )
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    Introducing AIMap: Security Testing For AI Agent Infrastructure
    Attackers can already find, connect to, and probe your exposed AI agent infrastructure. AIMap gives defenders that same visibility. Built by Bishop Fox, this open-source tool discovers, scores, and tests exposed AI endpoints so you can understand your real attack surface before someone else does.  ( 9 min )

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    Key Takeaways from the 2026 State of AI in the Cloud Report
    How AI Adoption, Autonomy, and Attacker Innovation Are Reshaping Cloud Security  ( 53 min )
    Supply Chain Campaign Targets SAP npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Malware
    Detect and mitigate malicious npm packages linked to the recent Shai-Hulud-style campaign - Mini Shai Hulud.  ( 54 min )
    Wiz Code Week Recap: Securing AI Native Development
    Providing Application Security teams with visibility and guardrails to secure agentic software development and the modern software supply chain  ( 54 min )
    Modern Defensible Architecture: Resilience for the Australian Federal Government
    How Wiz enables Australian government agencies to operationalise MDA with real-time context, zero trust enforcement, and end-to-end cloud visibility.  ( 54 min )
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    What GigaOm and Synack Got Right About AI Pentesting
    What Mythos Means for Penetration Testing as a Service When Anthropic announced the Claude Mythos Preview, the reaction from the security community was immediate. We’re not talking about the next best model. This model is such a leap forward and so capable at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that Anthropic deemed it too dangerous to release […] The post  What GigaOm and Synack Got Right About AI Pentesting appeared first on Synack.  ( 16 min )
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    Windows 365 Reserve: user-initiated Cloud PC provisioning
    Windows 365 Reserve is Microsoft's short-term Cloud PC solution for users whose primary physical device becomes unavailable. Since its general availability in December 2025, only IT admins could provision these Cloud PCs through Microsoft Intune. A public preview announced on April 28, 2026 adds an optional setting that lets users start the provisioning process themselves from the Windows App, without waiting for IT intervention. Source
    Copilot agentic AI in Outlook: automating inbox and calendar management
    Microsoft announced agentic features for Copilot in Outlook, expanding from single-task assistance to continuous, multi-step automation of email and calendar work. These features let Copilot act independently on your behalf — prioritizing messages, drafting follow-ups, responding to meeting invites, and resolving scheduling conflicts. Access is currently limited to Microsoft's Frontier early-access program and requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. This article explains what the new features do, what your infrastructure must look like, and how you enable access as an administrator. Source
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    Introducing the redesigned Mac threat prevention. Now available in beta.
    The beta release of Mac threat prevention simplifies how Jamf admins can defend their Mac fleets.  ( 7 min )
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    The Internet Is Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down (cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940)
    Hello! Yes, it's all a disaster again! Let's get this party started: 0:00 0:12 1× No comments today, so imagine this: We wrote something that we find very funny, Nobody else gets it, But everyone humors us Just like a typical watchTowr Labs  ( 14 min )
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    How AI can streamline your security testing
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    Extending Ruzzy with LibAFL
    LibAFL is all the rage in the fuzzing community these days, especially with LLVM’s libFuzzer being placed in maintenance mode. Written in Rust, LibAFL claims improved performance, modularity, state-of-the-art fuzzing techniques, and libFuzzer compatibility. For these reasons, I set out to add LibAFL support to Ruzzy, our coverage-guided fuzzer for pure Ruby code and Ruby C extensions. This gives Ruby developers and security researchers access to a more advanced and actively maintained fuzzing engine without changing how they write their fuzzing harnesses. Ruzzy was originally built on top of LLVM’s libFuzzer, so using LibAFL’s compatibility layer should be easy enough. However, digging around in the internals of complex systems is never quite as simple as it seems. In this post, I will inv…  ( 9 min )
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    Mac Malware of 2017
    Let's look at all the mac malware from 2017, for each - discussing their infection vector, persistence mechanism, features & goals.  ( 40 min )
    Building HackingTeam's OS X Implant For Fun & Profit
    How to build HackingTeam's OS X implant in Xcode  ( 42 min )
    Reversing to Engineer: Learning to 'Secure' XPC from a Patch
    How reversing Apple's 'RootPipe' patch provided the means to secure TaskExplorer's XPC service  ( 42 min )
    Monitoring Process Creation via the Kernel (Part I)
    Why BlockBlock needs a kext (hint: process monitoring), and how the kext was created  ( 42 min )
    Phoenix: RootPipe lives! ...even on OS X 10.10.3
    Exploiting RootPipe on OS X 10.10.3  ( 42 min )
    Website Launch
    NSLog(@"Hello World"); objective-see.org is alive!  ( 42 min )
    Writing a Process Monitor with Apple's Endpoint Security Framework
    Learn how to leverage Apple's new Endpoint Security Framework to create a comprehensive (user-mode) Process Monitor for macOS 10.15!  ( 14 min )
    The Mac Malware of 2019
    Our annual report on all the Mac malware of the year - including samples for download, infection vectors, persistence mechanisms, payloads and more!  ( 41 min )
    Kernel Debugging a Virtualized OS X El Capitan Image
    How to remotely kernel-debug a OS X 10.11 VM  ( 42 min )
    More on, "Adware for OS X Distributes Trojans"
    A deeper dive into 'MacInstaller' and the adware it installs  ( 42 min )
    CVE-2015-3673: Goodbye Rootpipe...(for now?)
    Details on bypassing Apple's original rootpipe patch  ( 42 min )
    Dylib Hijack Scanner Released
    Announcing the release of DHS; a tool to help detect (dylib) hijackers  ( 42 min )
    The Mac Malware of 2018
    Our annual report on all the Mac malware of the year - including samples for download, infection vectors, persistence mechanisms, payloads and more!  ( 26 min )
    Monitoring Process Creation via the Kernel (Part III)
    Getting process creation notifcations from kernel-mode to user-mode, via the undocumented kev_msg_post function  ( 8 min )
    HandBrake Hacked! OSX/Proton (re)Appears
    The website of a popular application was hacked, and the application trojaned with a new variant of osx/proton.  ( 3 min )
    HackingTeam Reborn; A Brief Analyis of the RCS Implant Installer
    HackingTeam using native OS X crypto to protect malware -neat! New blog w/ sample + decryptions/dumpings/detections  ( 5 min )
    OSX/MacRansom; analyzing the latest ransomware to target macs
    Looks like somebody on the 'dark web' is offering 'Ransomware as a Service'...that's designed to infect Macs!  ( 6 min )
    Forget the NSA, it's Shazam that's always listening!
    Does Shazam's Mac App keep recording even when you turn the app off? ...yes :/  ( 8 min )
    [0day] Bypassing Apple's System Integrity Protection
    Read how an attacker can bypass Apple's SIP, via the local OS upgrade process  ( 11 min )
    Ay MaMi - Analyzing a New macOS DNS Hijacker
    OSX/MaMi (the first Mac malware of 2018) hijacks infected users' DNS settings and installs a malicious certificate into the System keychain, in order to give remote attackers 'access' to all network traffic  ( 9 min )
    A Deceitful 'Doctor' in the Mac App Store
    A massively popular app from the official Mac App Store, surreptitiously steals your browsing history! By fully reversing the application, we can fully expose its functionality and rather shady capabilities.  ( 13 min )
    'Untranslocating' an App
    Apple's App Translocation broke several of my tools, but we can locally undo it to restore broken functionality!  ( 11 min )
    Analyzing the Anti-Analysis Logic of an Adware Installer
    Dissecting string obfuscations, junk code insertions, and anti-debugging logic of InstallCore  ( 5 min )
    Persisting via a Finder Sync
    Learn how a Finder Sync can 'extend' Finder.app and how this could be abused for persistence  ( 5 min )
    New Attack, Old Tricks
    A Word document targets Mac users with malicious macros and an open-source payload.  ( 4 min )
    Are you from the Mac App Store?
    How to verify that an application came from the official Mac App Store, via receipt validation  ( 7 min )
    An Insecurity in Apple's Security Framework?
    Turns out that writing security tools is a great way to inadvertently uncover bugs in macOS. How about a crash in Apple's 'Security' framework ... that can't be good!?  ( 7 min )
    Towards Generic Ransomware Detection
    By monitoring file I/O events and detecting the rapid creation of encrypted files by untrusted processes, can ransomware be generically detected?  ( 26 min )
    Monitoring Process Creation via the Kernel (Part II)
    Process monitoring via the KAuth Subsystem (and some limitations)  ( 5 min )
    Two Bugs, One Func(), part three
    Analyzing code within the macOS kernel audit subsystem uncovered an exploitable heap overflow.  ( 5 min )
    Click File, App Opens
    The 'Mac File Opener' adware is fairly normal, except for it how it persists via registered document handlers  ( 9 min )
    WTF is Mughthesec!? poking on a piece of undetected adware
    Some undetected adware named "Mughthesec" is infecting Macs...let's check it out!  ( 5 min )
    Block Blocking Login Items
    Apple recently updated the way login items are stored by the OS. In this post, we'll illustrate how to parse the (new) login item files to detect persistence
    All Your Docs Are Belong To Us
    Here, we reverse, then 'extend' a popular macOS anti-virus engine. With the creation of a new anti-virus signature, classified documents will be automatically detected!  ( 14 min )
    Happy Birthday to Objective-See
    Today is our 2nd birthday! Let's look at our past, present, and future.  ( 2 min )
    From Italy With Love?
    Reverse-engineering a 'Russian' implant reveals HackingTeam's code!?  ( 9 min )
    OSX/Proton.B; a brief analysis, 6 miles up
    Analysis of OSX/Proton.B reveals some interesting tricks plus a command file that can be decrypted to reveal the malware's capabilities  ( 10 min )
    High Sierra's 'Secure Kernel Extension Loading' is Broken
    A new 'security' feature in macOS 10.13, is trivial to bypass.  ( 5 min )
    Analyzing CrossRAT
    The EFF/Lookout discovered a cross-platform implant, named CrossRat with ties to nationstate operators. Here, we tear it apart; analyzing its persistence mechanisms, features, and network communications.  ( 13 min )
    [0day] Bypassing SIP via Sandboxing
    In this guest blog post @CodeColorist writes about a neat macOS vulnerability. Ironically, by abusing security mechanisms such as sandboxing, macOS can be coerced to load an untrusted library, into a SIP-entitled process!
    Pass the AppleJeus
    A new macOS backdoor written by the infamous Lazarus APT group needs analyzing. Here, we examine it's infection vector, method of persistence, capabilities, and more!  ( 10 min )
    Why _blank_ Gets You Root
    Yet another a massive security flaw affects the latest version of macOS (High Sierra), allowing anybody to log into the root account with a blank, or password, of their choosing!  ( 7 min )
    A Surreptitious Cryptocurrency Miner in the Mac App Store?
    Turns out the innocuously named "Calendar 2" app, found on the official Mac App Store, was surreptitiously turning Mac into cryptocurrency miners!  ( 4 min )
    Weaponizing a Lazarus Group Implant
    The Lazarus group's latest implant/loader supports in-memory loading of 2nd-stage payloads. In this post we describe exactly how to repurposing this 1st-stage loader to execute *our* custom 'fileless' payloads!  ( 14 min )
    "Objective by the Sea" v2.0
    After the success of #OBTS v1.0, we decided to go international and plan #OBTS v2.0 in Europe! In this blog post, we re-live the highlights (from Monaco!) of "Objective by the Sea" v2.0.  ( 3 min )
    Mac Malware of 2016
    Let's analyse the malware that appeared in 2016, discussing the infection vector, persistence mechanism, feature, and disinfection for each.  ( 12 min )
    [0day] Synthetic Reality
    If you can programmatically generate synthetic mouse clicks, you can break macOS! Approving kernel extensions, dismissing privacy alerts, and much more more...  ( 8 min )
    Analysis of an Intrusive Cross-Platform Adware; OSX/Pirrit
    In Objective-See's first guest blog post, Amit Serper presents his detailed analysis of OSX/Pirrit  ( 10 min )
    An Unpatched Kernel Bug
    On my flight to ShmooCon, I managed to panic my fully-patched MacBook. Here we analyze the kernel panic report, finding that Apple's AMDRadeonX4150 kext is responsible for the crash.  ( 7 min )
    From the Top to the Bottom; Tracking down CVE-2017-7149
    High Sierra suffered from a nasty bug (CVE-2017-7149) that afforded local attackers access to the contents of encrypted APFS volumes.  ( 12 min )
    Two Bugs, One Func(), part one
    The macOS kernel had an (intentional?) off-by-one bug that could trigger a kernel panic.  ( 13 min )
    Middle East Cyber-Espionage (part two)
    The APT group WindShift has been targeting Middle Eastern governments with Mac implants. Let's (continue to) analyze their 1st-stage macOS implant: OSX.WindTail!  ( 8 min )
    Two Bugs, One Func(), part two
    Apple's 'fix' for a macOS kernel panic, fixes nothing and worse, introduces a new bug.  ( 13 min )
    Analyzing OSX/CreativeUpdater
    Recently, the popular MacUpdate website was subverted to distribute a new macOS cryptominer; OSX/CreativeUpdater.  ( 5 min )
    Rootpipe Reborn (Part I)
    In part one of a guest blog post, @CodeColorist writes about several neat macOS vulnerabilities.  ( 4 min )
    Writing a File Monitor with Apple's Endpoint Security Framework
    Learn how to leverage Apple's new Endpoint Security Framework to create a comprehensive (user-mode) File Monitor for macOS 10.15!  ( 10 min )
    Tearing Apart the Undetected (OSX)Coldroot RAT
    I uncovered a new cross-platform backdoor that provides remote attackers persistent access to infected systems  ( 12 min )
    Burned by Fire(fox) (Part II)
    Recently, an attacker targeted (Mac) users via a Firefox 0day. In this second post, we fully reverse OSX.NetWire.A, revealing (for the first time!), its inner workings and complex capabilities.  ( 12 min )
    OSX.Dummy
    A new Mac malware targets the cryptocurrency community. In this post, we dive into the malware and illustrate how Objective-See's tools can generically thwart this new threat at every step of the way.
    Breaking macOS Mojave (Beta)
    In macOS Mojave apps, to have to obtain user permission before using the Mac camera & microphone. We'll illustrate how this is trivial to bypass (at least in the current beta).  ( 4 min )
    Remote Mac Exploitation Via Custom URL Schemes
    The WINDSHIFT APT group is successfully infecting Macs with a novel infection mechanism. By abusing custom URL scheme handlers and minimal user interaction, Macs can be remotely compromised!  ( 8 min )
    Middle East Cyber-Espionage
    The APT group WindShift has been targeting Middle Eastern governments with Mac implants. Let's analyze their 1st-stage macOS implant: OSX.WindTail!  ( 7 min )
    Rootpipe Reborn (Part II)
    @CodeColorist continues writing about bugs, such as CVE-2019-8521 and CVE-2019-8565 that provide a mechanism to elevate privileges to root on macOS.  ( 4 min )
    Word to Your Mac
    A malicious Word document targeting macOS users, was recently uncovered. Let's extract the embedded macros, decode an embedded downloader, and retrieve the 2nd-stage payload!  ( 4 min )
    A Remote iOS Bug
    Apple wrote code to appease the Chinese government ...it was buggy. In certain configurations, iOS devices were vulnerable a "emoji-related" flaw that could be triggered remotely!
    Cache Me Outside
    Are full paths and preview thumbnails for files even on encrypted containers and removable usb devices really persistently stored? ...yes :( Apple's 'QuickLook' cache is to blame.  ( 7 min )
    [0day] Mojave's Sandbox is Leaky
    The macOS sandbox is seeks to prevent malicious applications from surreptitiously spy on unsuspecting users. Turns out, it's trivial to sidestep some of these protections, resulting in significant privacy implications!  ( 7 min )
    Escaping the Microsoft Office Sandbox
    Imagine you've gained remote code execution on a Mac via a malicious Word document. Turns out, you're still stuck in a sandbox. However, via a faulty regex, you can escape and persist!  ( 5 min )
    Who Moved My Pixels?!
    In this guest blog post my friend Mikhail Sosonkin reverses Apple's screencapture utility, discusses Mac malware that captures desktop images, and suggests methods for screen-capture detection!  ( 11 min )
    Mac Adware, à la Python
    Let's tear apart a persistent piece of adware, decompiling, decoding, and decompressing it's code to uncover its methods and capabilities.  ( 8 min )
    Mass Surveillance, is an (un)Complicated Business
    A massively popular iOS application turns out to be a government spy tool! Here, we analyze the app; decrypting its binary and studying its network traffic.  ( 12 min )
    When Disappearing Messages Don't Disappear
    Did you know on macOS, notifications are stored in a unencrypted database? Which means that even 'disappearing' messages from apps such as Signal - may not really disappear. Yikes!  ( 4 min )
    Death by vmmap
    A core Mojave utility is rather disastrously broken - causing a full-system lockup. Let's find out why!  ( 6 min )
    [0day] Abusing XLM Macros in SYLK Files
    A 0day logic flaw in Microsoft Excel leads to 'remote' code execution on macOS, via malicious macros.  ( 6 min )
    Burned by Fire(fox) (Part III)
    Recently, an attacker targeted (Mac) users via a Firefox 0day. In this third post, we analyze a second backdoor used in the attack, detailing its persistence, capabilities, and ultimate identify it a new variant of the cross-platform Mokes malware!  ( 6 min )
    Burned by Fire(fox) (Part I)
    Recently, an attacker targeted (Mac) users via a Firefox 0day. In this first post, we triage and identify the malware (OSX.NetWire.A) utilized in this attack, identifying its methods of persistence, and more!  ( 6 min )
    Lazarus Group Goes 'Fileless'
    The rather infamous APT group, "Lazarus", continues to evolve their macOS capabilities. Today, we tear apart their latest 1st-stage implant that supports remote download & in-memory execution of secondary payloads!  ( 8 min )
    Getting Root with Benign AppStore Apps
    In this guest blog post, "Objective by the Sea" speaker, Csaba Fitzl writes about an interesting way to get root via Apps from the official Mac App Store!  ( 17 min )
    The Dacls RAT ...now on macOS!
    A sophisticated Lazarus Group implant has arrived on macOS. In this post, we deconstruct the Mac variant of a OSX.Dacls, detailing its install logic, persistence, and capabilities.  ( 11 min )
    The 'S' in Zoom, Stands for Security
    Today we uncover two (local) security flaws in Zoom's latest macOS client. First, a privilege escalation vulnerability, and second, a method to surreptitiously access a user's webcam and microphone (via Zoom).  ( 12 min )
    Sniffing Authentication References on macOS
    CVE-2017-7170 was a local priv-esc vulnerability that affected OSX/macOS for over a decade! Here (for the first time!), we dive into the technical details of finding the bug, the core flaw, and exploitation.  ( 10 min )
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    CI/CD pipeline abuse: the problem no one is watching
    How we built an open-source, drop-in CI template that uses signal extraction and LLM reasoning to catch CI/CD abuse in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps pipelines.  ( 25 min )

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    What CREST Means for Your Next Synack Engagement
    CREST Helps Raise the Bar for the Researchers Behind Your Pentest When a cybersecurity company tells you its testers are vetted, what does that actually mean? Most of the time, it means the company ran its own screening, trusted its own judgment, and hoped you’d trust it too. That works, right up until the pentest […] The post What CREST Means for Your Next Synack Engagement appeared first on Synack.  ( 12 min )
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    Windows 11 point-in-time restore: configuration, limitations, and requirements
    Windows 11 is getting a new recovery feature called point-in-time restore, currently available as a preview in the Canary Insider channel (build 29576). It lets you roll back an entire PC—including the operating system, apps, settings, and local files—to a snapshot taken within the last 72 hours. Unlike the older System Restore feature, point-in-time restore captures the full system state on a schedule and is designed to be managed remotely in the future. This article covers how it works, how to configure it, and where its current limitations lie. Source
    Uninstall Copilot from Windows 11 with RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp Group Policy, PowerShell or Intune
    Microsoft released a new policy in April 2026 that lets you remove the Microsoft Copilot consumer app from managed Windows 11 devices using Group Policy or Microsoft Intune. The policy is called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp and is part of the April 2026 Windows security update. Alternatively, you can uninstall Copilot with PowerShell or Intune. Source
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    Securing GitHub: Wiz Research uncovers Remote Code Execution in GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server (CVE-2026-3854)
    Details on CVE-2026-3854: A critical flaw in GitHub’s internal git infrastructure enabling RCE on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server.  ( 63 min )
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    PortSwigger recognized at the Northern Tech Awards 2026.
    We’re proud to announce that PortSwigger recently won the Overall Judges’ Award at the Northern Tech Awards 2026. The Northern Tech Awards are run by GP Bullhound, the tech advisory and investment fir  ( 4 min )

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    Why Mac security updates take too long and how to fix it
    Mac security updates lag due to legacy workflows. DDM enables faster patching, reducing vulnerability windows and manual effort for IT teams.  ( 7 min )
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    Windows 11 update control: Skip, pause, and restart without forced installs
    Microsoft is rolling out several long-requested changes to the Windows Update experience in Windows 11. You can now skip updates during initial device setup, pause them for up to 35 days with no limit on how many times you extend the pause, and restart or shut down your PC without being forced to install a pending update. Driver, .NET (Microsoft's application runtime framework), and firmware updates will be bundled into a single monthly restart cycle. These changes are currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Experimental channels. Source
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    NIST NVD Update: What it Means For Vulnerability Management
    The shift from static CVE scoring to risk-based prioritization signals a new era for Vulnerability Managers  ( 52 min )
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    MacOS malware persistence 11: osascript LOLBin. Simple C example
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    Azure Fabric Backdoor With A Twist
    Azure Fabric Backdoor With A Twist  ( 15 min )
    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 4. Approvals and Policies
    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 4. Approvals and Policies  ( 13 min )

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    A Look at RTEMS Security
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    When Guardrails Aren't Enough: Reinventing Agentic AI Security With Architectural Controls
    David Brauchler III delivers a fascinating Black Hat talk on the root cause of AI-based vulnerabilities and why security architecture is the real solution.  ( 7 min )

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    MCP Bridge Upgrade
    MCP Bridge Upgrade  ( 7 min )
    Black Hole of Trust: SEO Poisoning in Silver Fox’s Space Odyssey
    Black Hole of Trust: SEO Poisoning in Silver Fox’s Space Odyssey  ( 7 min )

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    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 3. Private Key Storage and Signing Module
    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 3. Private Key Storage and Signing Module  ( 12 min )

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    The Symbols of Operation
    The Symbols of Operation code data confusion ada lovelace  ( 6 min )

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    Public Report: AWS EKS Security Claims
    Public Report: AWS EKS Security Claims  ( 7 min )

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    Public Report: Google Private AI Compute Review
    Public Report: Google Private AI Compute Review  ( 7 min )

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    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 2. Common Custody Solutions Architectures
    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 2. Common Custody Solutions Architectures  ( 12 min )
    Legacy Technology in Transport: More Than “Old Tech”
    Legacy Technology in Transport: More Than “Old Tech”  ( 7 min )

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    Rapid Breach: Social Engineering to Remote Access in 300 Seconds
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    State of the Art of Private Key Security in Blockchain Ops - 1. Concepts, Types of Wallets and Signing Strategies
    Concepts, Types of Wallets and Signing Strategies  ( 12 min )
    Bridging the Valley of Death
    Bridging the Valley of Death: How Assurance Takes Us from Proof of Concept to Minimum Viable Product  ( 7 min )
    Goal-Based Regulation
    Goal-Based Regulation  ( 7 min )
    Unmasking Techno Sophists
    Unmasking Techno Sophists  ( 6 min )
    Public Report: VetKeys Cryptography Review
    Public Report: VetKeys Cryptography Review  ( 7 min )
    Your point of departure for forensic readiness
    Your point of departure for forensic readiness - Digital Forensics Incident Response  ( 10 min )

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    Euro 7 Anti-tampering and the Expanding Cybersecurity Landscape
    Euro 7, Anti-tampering, and the Expanding Cybersecurity Landscape  ( 6 min )

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    Understanding the Impact of Ransomware on Patient Outcomes – Do We Know Enough?
    Discover how ransomware affects patient care, with insights from NCC Group on clinical vulnerabilities and sector trends.  ( 16 min )
    Android-KillPermAndSigChecks
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    BlackBerry PlayBook Security – Part One
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    Drupal Vulnerability
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    Automated enumeration of email filtering solutions
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    Pairing over BLS12-381, Part 3: Pairing!
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    Java Web Start File Inclusion via System Properties Override
    This article details a vulnerability in Java Web Start that allows file inclusion through manipulated system properties.  ( 10 min )
    Scenester – A Small Tool for Cross-Platform Web Application
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    Tool Release – Ghostrings
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    Tool: WStalker – an easy proxy to support Web API assessments
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    Technical Advisory – Jitsi Meet Electron – Arbitrary Client Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-27162)
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    Tool Release: Blackbox iOS App Analysis with Introspy
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    Passive Decryption of Ethereum Peer-to-Peer Traffic
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    Hackproofing Lotus Domino Web Server
    Hackproofing Lotus Domino Web Server  ( 6 min )
    A Survey of Istio’s Network Security Features
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    Time Trial: Racing Towards Practical Remote Timing Attacks
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    Technical Advisory – Citrix Access Gateway Command Injection Vulnerability
    Explore how a command injection flaw in Citrix Access Gateway could allow attackers to execute arbitrary system commands.  ( 9 min )
    Principal Mapper (pmapper)
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    Virtual Access Monitor Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
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    General Data Protection Regulation: Knowing your data
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    Work daily with enforced MFA-protected API access
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    General Data Protection Regulation – are you ready?
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    SnapMC skips ransomware, steals data
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    IP-reputation-snort-rule-generator
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    IAM user management strategy
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    Research Blog Test Playground
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    Public Report – BLST Cryptographic Implementation Review
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    iOS User Enrollment and Trusted Certificates
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    Internet of Things Security
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    In-depth analysis of the new Team9 malware family
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    North Korea’s Lazarus: their initial access trade-craft using social media and social engineering
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    Autochrome
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    Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, NoEscape from NCC Group
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    Improving Software Security through C Language Standards
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    MeshyJSON: A TP-Link tdpServer JSON Stack Overflow
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    How-to: Importing WStalker CSV (and more) into Burp Suite via Import to Sitemap Extension
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    Crave the Data: Statistics from 1,300 Phishing Campaigns
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    Conference Talks – March 2022
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    Whitepaper – Weaning the Web off of Session Cookies: Making Digest Authentication Viable
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    Technical Advisory – DelTek Vision – Arbitrary SQL Execution (SQLi)
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    iSEC Completes TrueCrypt Audit
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    LDAPFragger: Bypassing network restrictions using LDAP attributes
    Discover how LDAPFragger uses LDAP attributes to evade network restrictions and exfiltrate data covertly.  ( 15 min )
    Whitepaper – Microcontroller Readback Protection: Bypasses and Defenses
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    ISM RAT
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    The Mobile Application Hacker’s Handbook
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    Introducing Chuckle and the Importance of SMB Signing
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    Advanced SQL Injection in SQL Server Applications
    Advanced SQL Injection in SQL Server Applications  ( 6 min )
    IAM user management strategy (part 2)
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    Cisco ASA series part four: dlmalloc-2.8.x, libdlmalloc, & dlmalloc on Cisco ASA
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    Conference Talks – December 2020
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    Visualising Firewall Rulesets – Simplifying Firewall Administration and Spotting the Pivot Point
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    Xendbg: A Full-Featured Debugger for the Xen Hypervisor
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    Writing Secure ASP Scripts
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    Whatsupgold Premium Directory traversal
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    What the HEC? Security implications of HDMI Ethernet Channel and other related protocols
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    whitebox
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    Java RMI Registry.bind() Unvalidated Deserialization
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    Hacking the Extensible Firmware Interface
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    Premium Practical Law Content Gateway(2)
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    Technical Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kyocera Printers
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    Modelling Threat Actor Phishing Behaviour
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    Technical Advisory – Multiple Vulnerabilities in Netgear ProSAFE Plus JGS516PE / GS116Ev2 Switches
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    Tool Release: PeachFarmer
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