Researchers have known for almost a decade that threat actors sometimes use DNS records to host malicious PowerShell scripts. DomainTools also found that technique in use—in the TXT records for the domain 15392.484f5fa5d2.dnsm.in.drsmitty [.]com. The hexadecimal method, which was recently described in a blog post, isn’t as well-known.

As computers and software become increasingly sophisticated, hackers need to rapidly adapt to the latest developments and devise new strategies to plan and execute cyberattacks. One common strategy to maliciously infiltrate computer systems is known as software exploitation.

Multiple Fortinet FortiWeb instances recently infected with web shells are believed to have been compromised using public exploits for a recently patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw tracked as CVE-2025-25257.

Last, testing exploit code gives you a sexy demonstration that can be used to convince team members and management about the value of your computer security defenses.

Exploit (Computer Security) An exploit (from the verb to exploit, in the meaning of using something to one’s own advantage) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, ...

Crowdstrike has seen multiple cases of exploitation of CVE-2017-0213 impacting a retail firm in Europe, where an employee downloaded an exploit via WhatsApp to install uTorrent and play games.

Recently, numerous serious security vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely used programs. These pose a massive threat to PC security. We show you how you can close them.

Security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software have become an even more popular means of attack by cyber criminals - but an Adobe Flash vulnerability still ranks as the second most used exploit by ...