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Vulnerability Analysis

What is Ransomware

Ransomware costs organizations $2.73M on average to recover from. Learn how it works, its top infection vectors, and how to defend against it.

Mar 25, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What is Zip Slip Vulnerability

Zip Slip lets attackers escape archive extraction via path traversal to overwrite files and gain code execution. Here's how it works and how to stop it.

Mar 25, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What is Prototype Pollution

Prototype pollution lets attackers corrupt Object.prototype via unsafe merges, turning a data bug in lodash, jQuery, or minimist into RCE.

Mar 24, 20266 min read
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What is a Business Logic Vulnerability

Business logic vulnerabilities exploit correct code enforcing the wrong rules. Learn what they are, real breach examples, and how to detect them.

Mar 24, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What Are Hardcoded Credentials

Hardcoded credentials are secrets baked into code instead of a vault. Toyota, Uber, and Samsung breaches show why that risk never expires on its own.

Mar 23, 20268 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What is Sensitive Data Exposure

Sensitive data exposure covers everything from unencrypted databases to hardcoded secrets. Learn what causes it, real breach examples, and how to detect it early.

Mar 23, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What is Broken Authentication

Broken authentication lets attackers assume another user's identity via credential stuffing, forged tokens, or auth-bypass CVEs like Fortinet's CVE-2022-40684.

Mar 23, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What Are Cryptographic Failures

Cryptographic failures are OWASP's #2 Top 10 risk — weak, missing, or broken encryption. See real breaches, causes, and how to detect and fix them.

Mar 23, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

Zyxel Router Command Injection: CVE-2024-40891 Exploited in the Wild

Threat actors began mass-exploiting a Telnet-based command injection flaw in Zyxel CPE routers, with over 1,500 devices compromised in botnet campaigns. Zyxel initially refused to patch.

Mar 22, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

What Are Security Logging and Monitoring Failures

Equifax went undetected for 76 days, Marriott for four years. Here's what security logging and monitoring failures are, why they happen, and how to close the gap.

Mar 22, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

Use of Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Equifax lost 147M records to one unpatched library. Here's what "components with known vulnerabilities" means and how reachability analysis fixes the triage problem.

Mar 22, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Day: CVE-2025-23006 Pre-Auth RCE

SonicWall disclosed CVE-2025-23006, a critical deserialization vulnerability in its SMA 1000 series gateways that was actively exploited as a zero-day before patches were available.

Mar 20, 20265 min read

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