Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

Two IP addresses accounted for the majority of the 1.4 million exploitation attempts observed over the past week. React2Shell exploitation activity remains strong, with over 1.4 million attempts ...

A major telecommunications company located in Asia was allegedly breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers who spent over four years inside its systems, according to a new report from incident ...

Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and one of the most dangerous techniques used by hackers is the reverse shell. This method allows attackers to gain remote control over a victim’s machine, ...

The Rapid7-powered Metasploit Framework is the world’s leading penetration testing framework. The Project is a collaboration between the open-source community and Rapid7 to provide a tool for ...

The first step in our penetration testing process was to perform an initial enumeration of the target IP using Nmap, one of the most widely used network scanning tools in the industry. This scan helps ...

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There are two popular types of shells: bind and reverse. Bind shell - Opens up a new service on the target machine and requires the attacker to connect to it to get a session. Reverse shell - A ...

how a poisoned MS Office document can be used to give a connect-back foothold to an attacker. At 1:57 long it couldn’t really explain the details of such an attack so here is a much more granular look ...

There are two popular types of shells: bind and reverse. A bind shell is the kind that opens up a new service on the target machine, and requires the attacker to connect to it in order to get a ...