At GRIMM we do a lot of vulnerability research and one of our favorite techniques for finding bugs in software is to repurpose or extend security tools from one area of research to another. One great example of this is when Juwei Lin and Lilang Wu ported syzkaller, the popular Linux kernel fuzzer, to macOS. Their research undercovered […]
Analyzing the Linux Kernel in Userland with AFL and KLEE Read More »
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc. (NMFTA), NXP® Semiconductors and GRIMM, a cybersecurity research firm, recently partnered to conduct an R&D project focused on Power Architecture®, also known as PowerPC®, a technology commonly found in automotive ECUs, to determine its cyber security impact on the heavy vehicle industry. NMFTA commissioned the research project to deliver an open-source software
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GRIMM purchased a GeoVision camera that arrived off-the-shelf with security vulnerabilities like most consumer IOT devices. The camera is a stand-in for any IOT device in a residential, industrial, or enterprise environment. The team demonstrated through a practical hands-on-exercise at HackNYC, RSA, Hack the Capitol, and multiple BSides where participants learn how to use a publically available exploit to compromise an emulated
IOT is even more of a risk than you thought Read More »
What would you do if your company’s IT devices were discovered to be part of a botnet? In October 2018, dozens of companies’ Hadoop servers were found to be compromised and participating in a self-replicating botnet. The botnet’s malware was able to install itself via a vulnerability in Hadoop that had been publicly known for
Know Your Enemy: Botnet Command and Control Architectures Read More »
The SCYTHE team is excited to announce that our latest release gives you the power of Atomic Red Team with all the automation and ease of use of the SCYTHE platform. Plus, you can now create and share your own SCYTHE threats allowing the ecosystem of adversary simulation to expand via the community! What’s new in version 2.4? Signature
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Introduction *hacker voice* “I’m in” is a Hollywood-esque phrase you’ve probably heard before. But how does someone actually do that? Do you wear a hoodie and change your terminal text to bright green? You could, but that won’t be of much help. Bypassing authentication is when an attacker gains access to an application, service, or
Modern Authentication Bypasses Read More »
Boards of Directors and investors do not need to be technical experts to oversee or discover cybersecurity risk in organizations. They do, however, need to ask probing questions to ascertain the maturity level of, and fundamental challenges within, the way organizations understand and manage cybersecurity risk. In our interactions with Executive Board of Directors, Venture
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As the cybersecurity industry continues to evolve, the use of certain terminology is changing and becoming more prevalent; such as the increased mention of Red Teams and Blue Teams inside boardrooms and IT departments. With the use of these terms, it is also means their definitions can be broad or confusing, sometimes becoming interchangeable with
The Purple Team – Organization or Exercise Read More »
Last week the Director of National Intelligence released a Worldwide Threat Assessment. It’s fairly short and to the point (only 42 pages), but I wanted to summarize for those who don’t have time to read it and help apply it to enterprise defense. The main two things to take away from this report are: Threats:
DNI Threat Assessment – Practical Guidance for your Company Read More »
The SCYTHE team has been hard at work on our new release and we are proud to present the next major evolution of the SCYTHE Continuous Red Team Automation platform. What’s New More auto-generated implants Linux support One-Click MITRE ATT&CK Report New Threats in the Threat Catalog New Logging Output Option Linux Implant Builder The campaign creation
SCYTHE: Starting 2019 with Linux and ATT&CK™ Read More »