On a recent engagement a USB #keylogger was found. My colleague Cass and I analyzed the key logger to find leads towards the threat actor. We have written down what we learned on our side quest:
https://research.hisolutions.com/2025/07/a-tale-of-practical-keylogger-forensics/
#DFIR #Forensics
The 13th annual @volatility #PluginContest is now OPEN! This is a meaningful way to contribute to open source forensics & gain community-wide visibility for your work. And, as always, winners get cash prizes!
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
You can find full details in our latest blog post: https://volatilityfoundation.org/the-13th-annual-volatility-plugin-contest-is-open/
REMINDER: The Call for Speakers for #FTSCon is open! The deadline is July 23.
See the full details in our blog post: https://volatilityfoundation.org/announcing-ftscon-2025-in-person-malware-and-memory-forensics-training/
Hundreds of Brother printer models are affected by a critical, unpatchable vulnerability (CVE-2024-51978) that allows attackers to generate the default admin password using the device’s serial number—information that’s easily discoverable via other flaws.
748 total models across Brother, Fujifilm, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta are impacted, with millions of devices at risk globally.
Attackers can:
• Gain unauthenticated admin access
• Pivot to full remote code execution
• Exfiltrate credentials for LDAP, FTP, and more
• Move laterally through your network
Brother says the vulnerability cannot be fixed in firmware and requires a change in manufacturing. For now, mitigation = change the default admin password immediately.
Our pentest team regularly highlights printer security as a critical path to system compromise—and today’s news is another example that underscores this risk. This is your reminder: Printers are not “set-and-forget” devices. Treat them like any other endpoint—monitor, patch, and lock them down.
Need help testing your network for exploitable print devices? Contact us and our pentest team can help!
Read the Dark Reading article for more details on the Brother Printers vulnerability: https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/millions-brother-printers-critical-unpatchable-bug
My previous intro post was a few years old, so behold, new intro post:
Mike. Live in the Seattle area having grown up in the UK as a full blown British. Have a wife (incredible), child (boy), and three dogs (golden retriver/cream retriver/fuck knows).
I work in information security, something I have done for about 20 years. By day I run corporate security, enterprise IT and various other bits and pieces for an EV charging startup. I am big into EV's and currently drive one that is not a Tesla. I want an electric motorbike, so if anyone has a spare one please send it.
I also have a company of my own, Secure Being (https://securebeing.com), which does pen testing and digital forensic work - it's my way of staying super hands on while still doing the management bits on the career path.
I have written books about information security things. Five of them. Two are non-fiction textbooks, and three are fiction based on real world #infosec things. Check out https://infosecdiaries.com and your local bookstore to find them, just search for my name. I have been trying to write more stuff, but always seem to find myself distracted by other things, such as work. linktr.ee/secureowl has some mini stories I've written.
I love radio and everything RF. I have lots of antennas and various scanners and radios on my desk. I love intercepting and decoding things, like digital radio protocols.
I am a big aviation nerd. I always wanted to be a commercial pilot. I gained my private pilots license in the UK at 17, all self funded by my employment at the local Safeway/Morrisons store. I did the sim test and commercial assessments, but for some reason, at 18, I was unable to find the £100k needed to complete the commercial training, so I did computers. But do not worry, because those computers and love of aviation and radio/RF combined, and I run a project called ACARS Drama. https://acarsdrama.com has all the details.
I play guitar and am a big guitar/audio nerd as well. I record music under the moniker Operation: Anxiety, https://operationanxiety.com - the music is on all the normal places.
Finally, I am a massive fan of motorsport. I believe I have watched every F1 race for the last 30 years, maybe 25. I also follow F2, FE, Indycar and MotoGP closely. I average around 18 hours of Le Mans 24 hour racing watching per year.
So there you have it. If you are looking for a thought leader on the topics mentioned above, you've come to the wrong place - because this is where I shitpost, and shitposting is cheap therapy.
Mini Digital Forensic Diaries story: got sent to a university in London to investigate a case where a student, who bragged of hacker prowess openly, was suspected of introducing malware to a machine and stealing a lecturers password.
“We don’t know how, but we know they logged into the account, and sent emails - and this is the only machine the lecturer uses,” came the brief.
Imaged the machine suspected of being targeted.
While giving the lecturer their laptop back post imaging I observed, via projector, the lecturer entering in their password to the username field on the login screen.
“Whoops, I’m always doing that - at least this time it wasn’t in front of the students,” they said.
Sure enough, there was no evidence of anything untoward on the laptop, but I had a good theory as to what may have occurred.
Check out more, less mini, stories like this at https://infosecdiaries.com.
A very nice blog post by Derek Eiri about the inner workings of #Fuji for #macOS forensic acquisition. Tool validation is very important in #DigitalForensics.
#DFIR #AppleForensics #MacForensics
https://mreerie.com/2025/05/12/exploring-macos-native-commands-andrea-lazzarotto-fuji/
After #HW, let's dive into our #DFIR/TI session
:
- @tomchop will introduce you #OpenRelik a new collaborative IR invest portal 
- @udgover & Matt Muir will introduce us to their e2e malwares process workflow using FLOSS 
- and we'll be able to learn & practice #MISP as analysts with @C00kie_two & @wr during their dedicated workshop 
GO & book your (free) seat: https://pretix.eu/passthesalt/2025/ 
program: https://cfp.pass-the-salt.org/pts2025/schedule/ 
July 1 to 3, 2025 
Lille, FR
Relays appreciated 
New blog post on Apple Unified Logs (iOS) and how to query them effectively.
Learn how to generate a .logarchive using a macOS device, third-party tools, or straight from files in a full file system extraction. Use a macOS device to convert the .logarchive into a JSON file for use outside of a macOS environment. Process the JSON file with iLEAPP in order to query the data using SQLite.
If you are not looking at unified logs you are missing incredibly valuable evidence in your cases.
Thanks to the following researchers for their invaluable contributions: Lionel Notari Tim Korver Johann POLEWCZYK Heather Charpentier
Read the blog post here:
https://abrignoni.blogspot.com/2025/05/extraction-processing-querying-apple.html
#DigitalForensics #DFIR #MobileForensics #UnifiedLogs #AppleForensics #iOSForensics #iLEAPP
#DigitalForensics
Congratulations to all of the Volatility contributors - this was no small feat! We are proud to be a sustaining sponsor of this important open-source project that remains the world’s most widely used memory forensics platform. #dfir
AI-powered features are the new attack surface! Check out our new blog in which LMG Security’s Senior Penetration Tester Emily Gosney @baybedoll shares real-world strategies for testing AI-driven web apps against the latest prompt injection threats.
From content smuggling to prompt splitting, attackers are using natural language to manipulate AI systems. Learn the top techniques—and why your web app pen test must include prompt injection testing to defend against today’s AI-driven threats.
Map visualization and firewall for AWS activity, inspired by Little Snitch for macOS
Digital Forensics StartMe Page by Dillon Bowe
- SANS posters & cheatsheets
- Blog feed
- YouTube feed
- Memory tools
- Network tools
- Malware tools
- getting started guides
and more.
Sidder og kigger på en image af en T68i fra digital corpera. Jeg har lavet lidt python til at trække billeder ud men det fungere ikke helt. Nogle der ligger inde med filsystem formatet for sådan en telefon?
Eng: I am looking at an image of the storage in a T68i from digital corpera. I have written some simple python to extract pictures. But do anyone know about the storage layout of such phone?
New on the @volexity Blog: Multiple Russian threat actors are leveraging Signal, WhatsApp, and a compromised Ukrainian government email address to impersonate EU officials. This latest round of phishing attacks abuses first-party Microsoft Entra apps and OAuth to compromise targets.
Investigation Scenario 
You have detected unauthorized modification to /etc/libaudit.conf on a Linux server.
What do you look for to investigate whether an incident occurred and its impact? What could an attacker have done here?
New Open-Source Tool Spotlight 
Google's GRR (GRR Rapid Response) is an open-source framework for remote live forensics and incident response. It allows security teams to investigate systems at scale without interrupting operations. Used for data collection, analysis, and hunting. #CyberSecurity #DFIR
Project link on #GitHub 
https://github.com/google/grr
#Infosec #Cybersecurity #Software #Technology #News #CTF #Cybersecuritycareer #hacking #redteam #blueteam #purpleteam #tips #opensource #cloudsecurity
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