The UK Smart Grid: How It Started & How It’s Going

It’s no secret that if nations want to meet the Net Zero emission targets set by international organizations by 2050, there’s a lot of work to be done. In the UK, one ...
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Linux X86 Assembly – How To Test Custom Shellcode Using a C Payload Tester

Overview In the last blog post in this series, we created a tool to make it easy to build our custom payloads and extract them.  However, what if we want to test ...
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Linux X86 Assembly – How to Make Our Hello World Usable as an Exploit Payload

Overview In the last two tutorials, we built a Hello World program in NASM and GAS for x86 assembly.  While this can help us learn x86 assembly, it isn’t viable as a ...
Oil and Gas Sectors Targeted by AgentTesla Infostealer Campaigns

Oil and Gas Sectors Targeted by AgentTesla Infostealer Campaigns

Digital attackers used spearphishing campaigns to target oil and gas companies with samples of the AgentTesla infostealer family. In the first campaign spotted by Bitdefender, malicious actors sent out emails that appeared ...
CISA Disclosed Ransomware Attack at Natural Gas Compression Facility

CISA Disclosed Ransomware Attack at Natural Gas Compression Facility

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that a natural gas compression facility suffered a ransomware attack. According to CISA Alert (AA20-049A), digital attackers leveraged a spearphishing link and abused the ...

Managing and Responding to Advanced Cyber Risks in the Oil and Gas Industry

To protect the integrity and safety of their business-critical assets, cybersecurity must be a top priority for the oil and gas industry. Although they operate some of the nation’s most critical systems, ...