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Blogs | INSIGHTS | September 11, 2012

Malware Doesn’t Care About Your Disclosure Policy, But You Better Have One Anyway

All over the world, things are changing in ICS security—we are now in the spotlight and the only way forward is, well, forward. Consequently, I’m doing more reading than ever to keep up with technical issues, global incidents, and frameworks and policies that will ensure the security of our future. From a security researcher’s perspective, one exciting development is that .gov is starting to understand the need for disclosure in some cases. They have found that by giving companies lead time to implement fixes, they often get stonewalled for months…

Eireann Leverett
Blogs | INSIGHTS | August 29, 2012

Stripe CTF 2.0 Write-Up

Hello, World! I had the opportunity to play and complete the 2012 Stripe CTF 2.0 this weekend. I would have to say this was one of the most enjoyable CTF’s I’ve played by far.  They did an excellent job. I wanted to share with you a detailed write-up of the levels, why they’re vulnerable, and how to exploit them. It’s interesting to see how multiple people take different routes on problems, so I’ve included some of the solutions by Michael Milvich (IOActive), Ryan O’Horo(IOActive), Ryan Linn(Spiderlabs), as well as my own (Joseph…

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Blogs | INSIGHTS | August 17, 2012

One Mail to Rule Them All

This small research project was conducted over a four-week period a while back, so current methods may differ as password restoration methods change. While writing this blog post, the Gizmodo writer Mat Honan’s account was hacked with some clever social engineering that ultimately brought numerous small bits and pieces of information together into one big chunk of usable data. The downfall in all this is that different services use different alternative methods to reset passwords: some have you enter the last four digits of your credit card and some would…

Lucas Lundgren
Blogs | INSIGHTS | August 8, 2012

Impressions from Black Hat, Defcon, BSidesLV and IOAsis

A week has passed since the Las Vegas craziness and we’ve had some time to write down our impressions about the Black Hat, Defcon and BSidesLV conferences as well as our own IOAsis event. It was great for me to meet lots of people—some of who I only see once a year in Las Vegas. I think this is one of the great things about these events: being able to talk for at least a couple of minutes with colleagues and friends you don’t see regularly (the Vegas craziness doesn’t…

Cesar Cerrudo
Blogs | INSIGHTS | July 19, 2012

IOActive Las Vegas 2012

That time of the year is quickly approaching and there will be nothing but great talks and enjoyment. As a leading security and research company, IOActive will be sharing a lot of our latest research at BlackHat USA 2012, BSidesLV 2012, and IOAsis.  And, of course, we’ll also be offering some relaxation and party opportunities, too! This year we are proud to be one of the companies with more talks accepted than anyone else at BlackHat USA 2012, an incredible showing that backs up our team’s hard work: ·         SEXY…

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Blogs | INSIGHTS | July 16, 2012

The Value of Data

Have you ever entered an office and seen a pile of money sitting unattended and easily accessible on a desk? How many people in your company have a key or combination to a safe with money inside and can open that safe without any controls? Do you leave money in a non-secure place that everyone knows about and can freely access? Your probable answer to all these questions is NO, which makes sense—what doesn’t make sense is how so many companies don’t think the same way about data….

Cesar Cerrudo
Disclosures | ADVISORIES | July 13, 2012

Invensys Wonderware InTouch 10 DLL Hijack

ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-177-01P on the US-CERT Portal on July 05, 2012. The web page’s release was delayed to provide the vendor with enough time to contact customers concerning this information. Independent researcher Carlos Mario Penagos Hollmann has identified an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability, commonly referred to as a DLL hijack, in the Invensys Wonderware InTouch application. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution. ICS-CERT has coordinated the report with Invensys, which has produced an upgrade to address this vulnerability. Mr. Hollmann has validated that…

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Carlos Hollman
Disclosures | ADVISORIES | July 3, 2012

WellinTech KingView and KingHistorian Multiple Vulnerabilities

Independent researchers Carlos Hollmand and Dillon Beresford identified multiple vulnerabilities in WellinTech’s KingView and a single vulnerability in WellinTech’s KingHistorian applications. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely. WellinTech has created a patch, and the researchers have validated that the patch resolves these vulnerabilities in the KingView and KingHistorian applications.

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Carlos Hollman
Library | WHITEPAPER | July 1, 2012

Reversal and Analysis of the Zeus and SpyEye Banking Trojans

Although the core functionality of SpyEye is similar to its main rival Zeus, SpyEye incorporates many advanced tricks to hide its presence on the local system. This document includes a deep technical analysis of the bot’s advanced hooking and injection mechanisms, as well as its core functionality used to hijack and steal user information. Zeus is an advanced piece of malware, so getting it to a reversible state was not a trivial exercise since it incorporates multiple layers of custom, portable, executable encryption. IOActive reverse engineers stripped each encryption layer…

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Commonalities in Vehicle Vulnerabilities

2022 Decade Examination Update | With the connected car now commonplace in the market, automotive cybersecurity has become the vanguard of importance as it relates to road user safety. IOActive has amassed over a decade of real-world vulnerability data illustrating the issues and potential solutions to cybersecurity threats today’s vehicles face.

This analysis is a major update and follow-up to the vehicle vulnerabilities report originally published in 2016 and updated in 2018. The goal of this 2022 update is to deliver current data and discuss how the state of automotive cybersecurity has progressed over the course of 10 years, making note of overall trends and their causes.

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