How password managers can be hacked – and how to stay safe
Look no further to learn how cybercriminals could try to crack your vault and how you can keep your logins safe
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Introducing HTTP Anomaly Rank
HTTP Anomaly Rank If you've ever used Burp Intruder or Turbo Intruder, you'll be familiar with the ritual of manually digging through thousands of responses ...
Why shadow AI could be your biggest security blind spot
From unintentional data leakage to buggy code, here’s why you should care about unsanctioned AI use in your company
In memoriam: David Harley
Former colleagues and friends remember the cybersecurity researcher, author, and mentor whose work bridged the human and technical sides of security
The who, where, and how of APT attacks in Q2 2025–Q3 2025
ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe highlights some of the key findings from the latest issue of the ESET APT Activity Report
ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2025–Q3 2025
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q2 2025 and Q3 2025
Sharing is scaring: The WhatsApp scam you didn’t see coming
How a fast-growing scam is tricking WhatsApp users into revealing their most sensitive financial and other data
WebSocket Turbo Intruder: Unearthing the WebSocket Goldmine
Many testers and tools give up the moment a protocol upgrade to WebSocket occurs, or only perform shallow analysis.
Cookie Chaos: How to bypass __Host and __Secure cookie prefixes
Browsers added cookie prefixes to protect your sessions and stop attackers from setting harmful cookies.
Inline Style Exfiltration: leaking data with chained CSS conditionals
I discovered how to use CSS to steal attribute data without selectors and stylesheet imports! This means you can now exploit CSS injection via style attributes!
Beware the false false-positive: how to distinguish HTTP pipelining from request smuggling
Sometimes people think they've found HTTP request smuggling, when they're actually just observing HTTP keep-alive or pipelining.
HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame
Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover.
Repeater Strike: manual testing, amplified
Manual testing doesn't have to be repetitive.
Drag and Pwnd: Leverage ASCII characters to exploit VS Code
Control characters like SOH, STX, EOT and ETX were never meant to run your code - but in the world of modern terminal emulators, they sometimes do.
Document My Pentest: you hack, the AI writes it up!
Tired of repeating yourself? Automate your web security audit trail.
SAML roulette: the hacker always wins
Introduction In this post, we’ll show precisely how to chain round-trip attacks and namespace confusion to achieve unauthenticated admin access on GitLab Ent...
Shadow Repeater:AI-enhanced manual testing
Have you ever wondered how many vulnerabilities you've missed by a hair's breadth, due to a single flawed choice?
Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2024
Welcome to the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2024, the 18th edition of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most innovative must-read web s...
Bypassing character blocklists with unicode overflows
Unicode codepoint truncation - also called a Unicode overflow attack - happens when a server tries to store a Unicode character in a single byte.
Stealing HttpOnly cookies with the cookie sandwich technique
In this post, I will introduce the "cookie sandwich" technique which lets you bypass the HttpOnly flag on certain servers.