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In our latest research related to forensic traces left by IDEs, let's look into the Cursor AI IDE. Traces:
As in our previous research, we saw that some of its components rely on VS Code. [...] Read more
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As we continue our research around agentic IDEs which can leave traces, because at some IR stages you need to deal with such things—especially when an engineer's machine was involved in [...] Read more
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With the rise of AI companions and agentic features in popular IDEs, these tools can now execute commands with user consent. This presents new challenges for digital forensic specialists, [...] Read more
Background: Threat actors have been leveraging AI in their attacks for some time now. Through searching for answers on how we as IR specialists can stand against this threat, I have come to a simple [...] Read more
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One of the IR stages is the "collection" stage, which occurs between containment and analysis. We sometimes need to collect evidence from Kubernetes pods or Docker containers, which can [...] Read more
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During incident response, time constraints can make it difficult to fully understand the scope of an incident. This challenge becomes even greater when our existing toolset does not [...] Read more
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The Linux kernel lockdown mode was introduced in Linux kernel version 5.4. Its purpose is to help protect the kernel from actions that could compromise the confidentiality or integrity of [...] Read more
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As we continue our journey into the mechanisms of kernel protection toolsets and monitoring, let's focus on our next candidate: SLUB. In simple terms, SLUB (the Unqueued Slab Allocator) [...] Read more
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As we continue our discovery of Linux kernel protection mechanisms, we should also look at the built-in capability called Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR). KASLR’s [...] Read more
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In our previous article, I described one method to prevent or monitor harmful activities that can be carried out against the Linux kernel, focusing on the research of SELinux [...] Read more
