Analysis of the Joomla RCE (CVE-2015-8562)

Recently, during a penetration test I have found a vulnerable installation of the Joomla CMS. Yes, I already know that this vulnerability is quite old and that there is a ready to use Metasploit module but here is the catch: the module and other scripts available on internet weren’t working against my environment, furthermore, during the last year a lot of new vulnerabilities rely on the PHP Object Injection and Serialize/Unserialize. That's the reason why I thought it...

Descending into Cybercrime

More than an year ago (and before crazy and scary things like WannaCry and Petya happened) I had an idea for a research about the darkest shade of wearing a black hat, by the mean of getting some piece of information and statistics and write an analysis. Not a technical one, but something more like a financial analysis of the cybercrime business model and now I’m going to publish the results (it's even more present now than an...