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Completing the Circle: The Path to CVE-2025-7388

By Marcos Accossatto on Thu, 09/04/2025
On March 6, 2024, Zach Hanley from Horizon3.ai wrote a blog post about reproducing CVE-2024-1403 using an authentication bypass in Progress OpenEdge.In the blog post, he explained the architecture behind OpenEdge and all the technical information related to the CVE-2024-1403 vulnerability. In the same blog post, he also posted a proof of concept (POC) to exploit the vulnerability. However, as this...
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Core Impact Quarterly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | Q2 2025

By Pablo Zurro on Fri, 08/22/2025
Core Impact Exploit Library AdditionsOne of Core Impact’s most valuable features is its certified exploit library, maintained by a team (formerly Core Labs) within the Fortra Intelligence & Research Experts (FIRE) group. This team conducts in-depth research to evaluate and prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities, ensuring the library is updated with high-impact, reliable exploits that enable...
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CISO’s Guide to Justifying Offensive Security Investments

Map Offensive Tactics to Business ObjectivesOffensive security is vital for strengthening organizational defenses, but not everyone immediately understands that. Get the buy-in you need to fund your offensive strategy, using the tips outlined in this guide. The CISO's Guide to Justifying Offensive Security Investments helps you:Build a Practical Business CaseConvey Compelling ROI & Value...
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Proposed HIPAA Update Makes Yearly Pen Testing Mandatory

By Katrina Thompson on Thu, 07/17/2025
In early 2025, significant changes to the HIPAA Security Rule were proposed by the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR). The proposed update to the HIPAA Security Rule, published on January 6, 2025, introduces a significant new requirement: all covered entities and business associates must conduct penetration...
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Core Impact 21.7: Transform Your Agents

By Pablo Zurro on Wed, 04/30/2025
We’re excited to announce the release of Core Impact 21.7, packed with powerful new features, thoughtful enhancements, and critical fixes that further solidify Core Impact as a go-to solution for penetration testers. This update focuses on extending agent customization options, improving integration with external tools, and optimizing the overall user experience.Agent TransformationsThis new...
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Core Impact Quarterly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | Q1 2025

By Pablo Zurro on Mon, 04/07/2025
Core Impact Updates New Release: Core Impact 21.7Core Impact 21.7 is now available! This release sees the introduction of the new agent transformation callbacks, a newer UI for the entity's creation dialogs, a series of quality-of-life changes, and more.A more extensive post will be published detailing all the new features and their use cases. Core Impact Exploit Library AdditionsOne of Core...
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Core Impact Monthly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | December 2024-January 2025

By Pablo Zurro on Wed, 02/19/2025
Core Impact Exploit Library AdditionsOne of Core Impact’s most valuable features is its certified exploit library, maintained by a team (formerly Core Labs) within the Fortra Intelligence & Research Experts (FIRE) group. This team conducts in-depth research to evaluate and prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities, ensuring the library is updated with high-impact, reliable exploits that enable...
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Core Impact and Cobalt Strike: Distinct Strengths, Enhanced Combination

By Pablo Zurro on Thu, 01/23/2025
Given its functionality as a multifaceted toolset, there are some features of Core Impact that users may not have taken advantage of. In this post, we’ll talk about SOCKS tunneling. Namely, we’ll walk through use cases of Core Impact’s SOCKS proxy capabilities and how to use it together with Cobalt Strike.What is SOCKS Tunneling?SOCKS Tunneling allows operators to run Core Impact modules and...
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The Financial Industry Threat Landscape: Top Threats and Proactive Security Best Practices

Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but it certainly seems to be the root of nearly all cyberattacks. This past year, 95% of attacks were financially motivated, according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). It’s clear that any company that manages money – and especially those that are in charge of a lot of it – has a huge, dollar-sign target on their backs....
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Core Impact Monthly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | November 2024

By Daniel De Luca on Thu, 12/12/2024
Core Impact Exploit Library Additions One of Core Impact’s most valuable features is its certified exploit library. Fortra’s Core Security has a team of expert exploit writers that conduct research, evaluating and prioritizing the most relevant vulnerabilities in order to update the library with critical and useful exploits. Additionally, the QA team creates its own clean environment to validate...
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Core Impact Monthly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | October 2024

By Pablo Zurro on Fri, 11/08/2024
Core Impact Updates NTMLrelayx MultiRelay and Keep-Relaying Support The latest update to Impacket 0.12 introduces the MultiRelay and keep-relaying modes, allowing users to run relays for extended periods and analyze captured connections for each target. The NTLMrelayx module will continuously relay new incoming connections until manually stopped. This feature, combined with the Connection Store...
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How to Proactively Harden Your Environment Against Compromised Credentials

By Pablo Zurro on Wed, 10/23/2024
According to NordPass, the average user maintains an average of 168 logins for personal purposes, and no less than 87 for the workplace. This is an extraordinary amount to keep safe, and threat actors realize that it’s only a matter of time before users make a wrong move and enter those credentials somewhere they’re not supposed to. And this is why, inevitably, they manage to swipe them and sneak...
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Are You Prepared for Ransomware IRL?

Thu, 10/10/2024
Most ransomware prevention advice focuses on antivirus software and other defenses, such as having good detection and response (DR) mechanisms. All of these are important. But with the advanced level of ransomware today, you also need to take measures that test your defenses and DR strategies to ensure the measures you have in place will hold up to a real-life advanced attack. Working in Theory vs...
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Core Impact Monthly Chronicle: Exploits and Updates | August & September 2024

By Pablo Zurro on Thu, 10/10/2024
Core Impact Exploit Library AdditionsOne of Core Impact’s most valuable features is its certified exploit library. Fortra’s Core Security has a team of expert exploit writers that conduct research, evaluating and prioritizing the most relevant vulnerabilities in order to update the library with critical and useful exploits. Additionally, the QA team creates its own clean environment to validate...
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CVE-2024-6769: Poisoning the Activation Cache to Elevate From Medium to High Integrity

This blog is about two chained bugs: Stage one is a DLL Hijacking bug caused by the remapping of ROOT drive and stage two is an Activation Cache Poisoning bug managed by the CSRSS server.The first stage was presented in detail at Ekoparty 2023 in the presentation called "I'm High" by Nicolás Economou from BlueFrost Security. He explained how to exploit the vulnerability which, at the time, had not...
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Decoding the Attacker Mindset: Pen Testing Revelations

Penetration testing is not simply about evaluating the security of an IT environment—it's about uncovering the attacker's playbook. By emulating the tactics of real-world attackers, security professionals can identify overlooked weaknesses, close gaps, and bolster their defenses with enhanced security controls. Featuring TLDRs and Takeaways for at...
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What’s New in Impacket 0.12?

Impacket 0.12 is now available! A lot of work has been done since version 0.11, and this new release includes improvements to libraries and examples, new examples, and more.Encoding UpdatesSome encoding issues were still present after transitioning from python 2 to python 3, primarily caused by transitions between bytes and str object types.Version 0.12 features encoding updates in several...
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Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30051)

In this blog post, I will explain a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) Core library that I analyzed when the exploit for Core Impact was being developed. This vulnerability allows an unprivileged attacker to execute code as a DWM user with Integrity System privileges (CVE-2024-30051).Since there was not enough public information at the time to develop the exploit,...