September 30, 2024 at 08:00PM AI code-generation assistants have increased coding speed but also lead to more defects and vulnerabilities, resulting in a rise in false positives for application vulnerabilities. Reachability analysis is being used to prioritize remediation requests, reducing the number of vulnerabilities needing patching. Overall, reducing non-reachable code helps cut remediation work by … Read more
April 18, 2024 at 07:36AM Sandboxes are valuable for both dynamic and static malware analysis. For instance, they facilitate the detection of threats in PDFs by extracting their structure and scrutinizing URLs. They also expose LNK abuse, aid in investigating spam and phishing emails, analyzing suspicious office documents, and looking inside malicious archives. ANY.RUN is … Read more
April 12, 2024 at 04:55PM The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has publicly released its Malware Next-Gen Analysis platform. The platform allows users to analyze suspicious files, URLs, and IP addresses for potential threats. CISA aims to enhance threat intelligence with dynamic and static analysis tools. Users can submit artifacts for analysis, with … Read more
April 11, 2024 at 04:24PM The Rust Project issued an update for its standard library due to a Windows batch-processing vulnerability, allowing for code injection. While known for memory safety, this incident highlights the language’s susceptibility to logic bugs. The group quickly addressed the issue, yet experts advise broader testing to address logical bugs and … Read more
October 13, 2023 at 06:18AM Dozens of vulnerabilities in the Squid caching and forwarding web proxy, discovered in 2021 by researcher Joshua Rogers, remain unpatched. Only a few flaws have been addressed, while 35 vulnerabilities still exist. The Squid Team lacks resources to address the issues, and the researcher suggests reassessing the use of Squid … Read more