the grugq's newsletter

Subscribe
Archives
March 19, 2025

March 19, 2025

March 19, 2025

Secure Annex - Enterprise Browser Extension Security & Management Platform

An investigation into buying access to browsers through extensions


Back in 2023, I taught a full course on "Plenty of Phish in the Sea: Collecting and Investigating Email and Text Message Threats" in Japan.

I've now made the full course available to the public, and the slides can be accessed here: https://t.co/LDEJhEtPz1

This course provides a… pic.twitter.com/oqTHIFJ7gi

— Lena (@LambdaMamba) March 18, 2025


Our first video from RE//verse 2025 is live! Part journey of personal discovery, part technical deep-dive, this presentation from Markus Gaasedelen was the highest rated in the feedback survey and is a must-see talk: https://t.co/bxh4jotdoa

— RE//verse (@REverseConf) March 18, 2025


0day Today is the ultimate database of exploits and vulnerabilitieshttps://t.co/Fx5KrMKT4V pic.twitter.com/SQT0Ius29C

— Legion Hunter (@bGVnaW9u) March 17, 2025


https://t.co/l8nuchZeYL, a tool designed to help ethical hackers bypass restrictive Content Security Policies (CSP) and exploit XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerabilities on sites where injections are blocked by CSP, https://t.co/fMZZpW1k4T

— Nicolas Krassas (@Dinosn) March 18, 2025


In other lowkey news, Iran's AFTA (CISA equivalent) briefly posted news about foiling allegedly APT15 activities and caught them squatting in multiple critical infrastructure and gov networks. This is an interesting case to look at.

No IoCs as usual, so VT retrohunt FTW! pic.twitter.com/whS3oc670D

— Hamid Kashfi (@hkashfi) March 18, 2025


BitM Up! Session Stealing in Seconds Using the Browser-in-the-Middle Technique | Google Cloud Blog

The browser in the middle technique can enable compromises, especially if defenses and MFA aren't properly implemented.


Poland now has the largest quantum key distribution network in Europe, and second after China. Pionier-Q – 1 770 km. pic.twitter.com/BWFYt2zOJc

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) March 18, 2025


Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab

In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across the globe. This report includes an infrastructure analysis of Paragon’s spyware product, called Graphite; a forensic analysis of infected devices belonging to members of civil society; and a closer look at the use of Paragon spyware in both Canada and Italy.


Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to the grugq's newsletter:
X