In the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, DLLs (Dynamic Load Libraries) are PE files like regular programs. One of the main differences is that they export functions that can be called by programs that load …
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Did you know that most modern passports are actually embedded devices containing an entire filesystem, access controls, and support for several cryptographic protocols? Such passports display a small …
The Trail of Bits cryptography team is releasing our open-source pure Go implementations of ML-DSA (FIPS-204) and SLH-DSA (FIPS-205) , two NIST-standardized post-quantum signature algorithms. These …
Since its original release in 2009, checksec has become widely used in the software security community, proving useful in CTF challenges, security posturing, and general binary analysis. The tool …
TL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the bug was first introduced, the threat landscape of the blockchain ecosystem …
We’re releasing Slither-MCP , a new tool that augments LLMs with Slither’s unmatched static analysis engine. Slither-MCP benefits virtually every use case for LLMs by exposing Slither’s static …
Trail of Bits is publicly disclosing two vulnerabilities in elliptic , a widely used JavaScript library for elliptic curve cryptography that is downloaded over 10 million times weekly and is used by …
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero Welcome back to the Windows Registry Adventure! In the previous installment of the series , we took a deep look into the internals of the regf hive …
Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM , providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related …
Guest post by Dillon Franke, Senior Security Engineer , 20% time on Project Zero Every second, highly-privileged MacOS system daemons accept and process hundreds of IPC messages. In some cases, these …
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero In the first three blog posts of this series, I sought to outline what the Windows Registry actually is, its role, history, and where to find further …
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero In the previous blog post , we focused on the general security analysis of the registry and how to effectively approach finding vulnerabilities in it. …
Posted by Tim Willis, Google Project Zero In 2021, we updated our vulnerability disclosure policy to the current “90+30” model. Our goals were to drive faster yet thorough patch …
Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project Zero Introduction In early June, I was reviewing a new Linux kernel feature when I learned about the MSG_OOB feature supported by stream-oriented UNIX domain …
Introduction Some time in 2024, during a Project Zero team discussion, we were talking about how remote ASLR leaks would be helpful or necessary for exploiting some types of memory corruption bugs, …
Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being …
Introduction I’ve recently been researching Pixel kernel exploitation and as part of this research I found myself with an excellent arbitrary write primitive…but without a KASLR leak. As …
An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform …
In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of …
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming …
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “ Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters ” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major …
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: …
Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles one zero-day bug that is already …
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Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill
A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds …
** Dec 12, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Server Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting OSGeo …