What the 2025 Elastic Global Threat Report reveals about the evolving threat landscape
The 2025 Elastic Global Threat Report provides current insights on adversary trends and defender strategies derived from real-world telemetry.
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20 articles
WARMCOOKIE One Year Later: New Features and Fresh Insights
A year later: Elastic Security Labs re-examines the WARMCOOKIE backdoor.
FlipSwitch: a Novel Syscall Hooking Technique
FlipSwitch offers a fresh look at bypassing Linux kernel defenses, revealing a new technique in the ongoing battle between cyber attackers and defenders.
Elastic excels in AV-Comparatives EPR Test 2025: A closer look
Elastic shares results of the 2025 AV Comparatives EPR test
MCP Tools: Attack Vectors and Defense Recommendations for Autonomous Agents
This research examines how Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools expand the attack surface for autonomous agents, detailing exploit vectors such as tool poisoni...
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.
Investigating a Mysteriously Malformed Authenticode Signature
An in-depth investigation tracing a Windows Authenticode validation failure from vague error codes to undocumented kernel routines.
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.
Agentic Frameworks Summary
Agentic systems require security teams to balance autonomy with alignment, ensuring that AI agents can act independently while remaining goal-consistent and ...
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.
MaaS Appeal: An Infostealer Rises From The Ashes
NOVABLIGHT is a NodeJS infostealer developed and sold as a MaaS offering; it is used primarily to steal credentials and compromise cryptowallets.
Repeater Strike: manual testing, amplified
Manual testing doesn't have to be repetitive.
Taking SHELLTER: a commercial evasion framework abused in-the-wild
Elastic Security Labs detected the recent emergence of infostealers using an illicitly acquired version of the commercial evasion framework, SHELLTER, to dep...
How AI and contextual search enhance defence cybersecurity
Contextual search brings clarity, speed, and insight to defence security teams
Microsoft Entra ID OAuth Phishing and Detections
This article explores OAuth phishing and token-based abuse in Microsoft Entra ID. Through emulation and analysis of tokens, scope, and device behavior during...
A Wretch Client: From ClickFix deception to information stealer deployment
Elastic Security Labs detected a surge in ClickFix campaigns, using GHOSTPULSE to deploy Remote Access Trojans and data-stealing malware.
Call Stacks: No More Free Passes For Malware
We explore the immense value that call stacks bring to malware detection and why Elastic considers them to be vital Windows endpoint telemetry despite the ar...
Elastic Security scores 100% in AV-Comparatives Business Security Test
Elastic Security nailed it with a perfect score of 100% in the most recent AV-Comparatives Business Security Test.