A Closer Look at Malware From the Macfinger ClickFix Campaign, (Fri, Sep 25th)
Introduction My previous post on Macfinger ClickFix was two days ago, and this campaign remains active. The more I look into the malware delivered by this campaign, the more I believe it is not a...
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View ArticleOne URL, Three Different Tricks, (Thu, Sep 24th)
Yesterday, we received a phishing email with an interesting link. At first sight, it looks like garbage, but every piece of it has been carefully crafted to confuse basic security controls. Here is the...
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View ArticleMacfinger ClickFix campaign, (Tue, Sep 22nd)
Introduction I've found several legitimate websites with injected script for a campaign using the ClickFix social engineering technique. This particular ClickFix campaign was documented earlier this...
View ArticleThe Truth about GET and HTTP Standards, (Tue, Sep 22nd)
On Friday, Xavier talked about the newly introduced HTTP Query method. This new method was introduced to allow "GET" requests that include a body. The main reason for this was that GET requests...
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View ArticleTerminalFix: PNG Steganography, (Mon, Sep 21st)
Microsoft Security Research published an interesting blog post "TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion" about a malware campaign. The aspect that I want to take a...
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View ArticleHTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST., (Fri, Sep 18th)
In June 2026 the IETF published RFC 10008[1], defining a new HTTP method: "QUERY". The HTTP protocol faced already by changes (HTTP/2, HTTP/2) but it’s the first new standard HTTP verb since "PATCH" in...
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View ArticleLausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep...
At the end of August, a malspam message was caught in the quarantine of a mail gateway operated by one of my customers. The message was not especially remarkable – it asked the recipient to review some...
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View ArticleScans Targeting Hospitality Applications, (Wed, Sep 16th)
Earlier today, I noted an odd request showing up in our "First Seen" report: GET /PIAF-HMS/ HTTP/1.1 Host: [redacted] User-Agent: Farez-Sorter/1.0 Accept-Encoding: gzip This request is linked to a...
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View ArticleMacOS 27 - First Boot, (Tue, Sep 15th)
I have not done this type of diary in a while: What traffic will you see from a system on boot, before a user logs in? I just took a quick look at macOS 27 "Golden Gate" to see what traffic you should...
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View ArticleApple Updates Everything, (Mon, Sep 14th)
Today, Apple released its annual update across all its operating systems. With that, Apple not only released new features but also patched 261 different vulnerabilities. This is the most...
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