Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid

Read Time:37 Second

It’s a Taningia danae:

Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They have some on the underside of their mantle. There are more facing upward, near one of their eyes. But it’s the photophores at the tip of two stubby arms that are truly unique. The size and shape of lemons­—each nestled within a retractable lid like an eyeball in a socket­—they are by far the largest photophores known to science.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Read my blog posting guidelines here.

Read More

Windows PowerShell / Trojan File RCE revisited

Read Time:24 Second

Posted by hyp3rlinx on Jun 09

Hi,

Windows PowerShell Filename Code Execution POC

Discovery: 2019 and revisited 2023

Since it still works, I dusted off and made minor improvements:

Execute a remote DLL using rundll32
Execute an unintended secondary PS1 script or local text-file (can be
hidden)
Updated the PS1 Trojan Filename Creator Python3 Script
First reported to Microsoft back in 2019 yet remains unfixed as of the time
of this writing.

Remote code execution via a…

Read More