👩💻IW Weekly #97: XSS on Microsoft Whiteboard and Excalidraw, ChatGPT Account Takeover, reverse engineered ESP32-based air purifier, advanced HTTP header exploitation techniques, PikaBot Malware Analysis and many more…
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📝 5 Infosec Articles
- @spaceraccoonsec walks us through his thought process while reviewing source code, in this case an XSS on rich text editor/whiteboard features in Meta and Microsoft.
- @H4R3L discovered a lax caching rule on OpenAI’s ChatGPT which allowed taking over any account.
- The team at @PlerionHQ dives into different ways to enumerate AWS Metadata and also released a tool which would help you do the same.
- @jmswrnr on how he reverse engineered ESP32-based air purifier.
- Read about the most common price manipulation techniques on E-Commerce websites, by @intigriti.
🧵4 Trending Tweets
- Discover web reconnaissance techniques outlined by @TheMsterDoctor1
- Learn advanced HTTP header exploitation techniques for successful Bug Bounty hunting with insights from @yeswehack
- Unveiling the insights of a bug bounty journey, @Jayesh25_ shares invaluable tips and highlights the top 5 lessons learned from early mistakes.
- @ashketchum_16 outlines their methodology for uncovering XSS vulnerabilities at Microsoft.
📽️ 3 Insightful Videos
- Learn how to go from entry-level to mid-level in cybersecurity with Tadi.
- Discover Advanced Active Directory Enumeration Techniques with Bloodhound by ITSecurityLabs.
- Dive into PikaBot Malware Analysis with John Hammond and Ryan Chapman!
💼 2 Job Alerts
- @Hacker0x01 is currently seeking candidates for a remote Product Security Analyst position in India.
- @NCIIPC is looking for expert pen-testers, security researchers and ethical hackers.
🎁 1 Special Item
- @albinowax shouts out http-garden, a differential testing and fuzzing tool for HTTP servers and proxies, by @NarfIndustries.
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That’s all for this week. Hope you enjoyed these incredible finds and learned something new from today’s newsletter. Meet you again next week hacker, until then keep pushing 💪
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