Onboarding new employees into an organization is an exciting time, but it also presents security challenges. Ensuring that new hires understand cybersecurity risks from day one
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How Can Non-Human Identities Enhance Cloud Security? As advancements in technology take us to the peaks of innovation, the threat landscape also evolves, posing unique challenges to cloud security. So, how do we stay ahead? The answer lies in effective Non-Human Identity (NHI) and Secrets management. NHIs are machine identities that are central to cybersecurity. […]
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Are You Safeguarding Your Non-Human Identities Efficiently? As a cybersecurity specialist, it’s always important to ask, “Am I doing enough to safeguard my non-human identities (NHIs)?” Implementing secure rotation and managing secrets effectively can be the difference between a well-protected system and a compromised one. NHIs, as the term implies, refer to machine identities that […]
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Why Should You Consider Automated Secrets Vaulting? How secure is your organization’s sensitive information within your cloud environment? With rampant digital threats and complex network systems, safeguarding Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secret credentials has ascended as a priority for businesses worldwide. This increasing risk calls for robust cybersecurity measures, and automated secrets vaulting aims […]
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2025 marks a pivotal moment in the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Rapid advancements in AI are not only redefining industries; they are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape in profound ways. Through this evolution, I have noted three primary […]
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SYMMETRY CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Top Healthcare RCM Company Enhances PHI Safeguards with Symmetry ABOUT Industry: Healthcare, Fintech Size: 10K+ Employees...
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Authors/Presenters: Craig Lester
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Stytch CTO Julianna Lamb explains why, when it comes to authentication, most organizations are going to be better off relying on a platform than trying to manage these processes at scale themselves. Julianna goes on to discuss the complexities of authentication and why companies are struggling with the decision to build their own authentication systems...
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Eric Brüggemann, CEO of Code Intelligence, introduces Spark, their new AI-driven security testing tool. Spark automates vulnerability detection by integrating into CI/CD pipelines and eliminating the need for developers to manually write security tests. The tool scans code, identifies potential risks, and generates automated security tests using AI, minimizing the time and effort required for..
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Databricks is a data analytics platform built to handle the scale and complexity of today’s data. Learn how Tonic integrates seamlessly with Databricks to generate synthetic test data based on production data that is both complex enough to be valuable and secure enough to protect user privacy.
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Bloody hell: New York Blood Center Enterprises crippled by ransomware scrotes unknown.
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As part of our ongoing mission to identify emerging threats to mobile security, our zLabs team shares how we can help protect you against Tria Stealer.
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Authors/Presenters: Elonka Dunin, Klaus Schmeh
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TLDR: SlackPirate has been defunct for a few years due to a breaking change in how the Slack client interacts with the Slack API. It has a new PR by yours truly to let you loot Slack again out of the box, and a BOF exists to get you all the credential material you need to do it. I recommend you let Nemesis do the heavy lifting of finding interesting data in what you pull back.
The BOFThis all started because I noticed that my brilliant colleague Matt Creel had added a new BOF to TrustedSec’s CS-Remote-OPs-BOF collection that pulled Slack cookies from the memory of either a browser or Slack client process. This would allow an operator to then utilize the stolen cookies to proxy browser traffic through a compromised machine and access the target organization’s Slack instance. He released a great blog about it if you want to learn more.
Slack is awesome, and full of valuable data about an organization. There’s the obvious stuff like people being lax and pasting credentials, but don’t forget that is also a comprehensive directory of who works there, and probably more valuable than their internal documentation (when was the last time you actually searched Confluence? Exactly.)
I was stoked to start using Matt’s BOF, since there hasn’t been an assessment where I got access to Slack where it didn’t prove useful. That said, something was nagging at me… This is the age of Nemesis! We don’t need to read anymore, reading is for squares! We have computers to do that for us while we watch short-form videos of animals with funny things on their heads (see below). Reading Slack was no exception.
https://medium.com/media/27059ff93db76037ec82d64aa35b9853/href
A classic.
So I set out to find a good Slack looter. I quickly stumbled upon SlackPirate, created by Mikail Tunç, which seemed to be the defacto choice. And for good reason! It is simple, fairly comprehensive, and also quite modular; you can change what is being searched for with relative ease. By default though it does a lot, such as:
Great! I plugged in my cookie and… no dice. I was unable to authenticate to any of the API endpoints I should be able to. I knew the Slack cookie I had was valid, so it was time to investigate.
TroubleshootingFiguring out what was the matter was pretty breezy! Slack is an Electron app, so you can still access the Chrome dev tools. Slack used to allow this by exporting a particular environment variable:
SET SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=TRUE && start C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\slack\slack.exeYou could then access the developer tools by pressing ctrl + alt + i. This no longer works for me, so I instead opted to use Chrome remote debugging, which was successful.
(NOTE: If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance your security team will have an alert in place for Chrome remote debugging to prevent cookie crimes. You may want to check with them before doing this on a work computer.)
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\slack\slack.exe --args --remote-debugging-port=9222Then when you browse to chrome://inspect/ you will be able to see Slack as with option to inspect:
Chrome remote debuggingBy pressing “inspect” you get your dev tools, plus a neat window of the Electron app you are debugging! I have never tried to use this to screen-peek on an Electron app over a proxy, but wouldn’t that be neat.
Inspecting Slack network trafficMy strategy at this point was to record network traffic while performing actions that seemed like they would have to be hitting a defined API endpoint from the client and seeing what the network traffic looked like. For example, going to the “users” page and finding what endpoint got hit to retrieve them. That’s what I am doing in the screenshot above for the BloodHoundGang slack (which you should join if you haven’t).
This allowed me to compare the requests with what was being performed in SlackPirate and determine what had changed to break it.
Turns out, not much! The APIs ended up being the same as before, the only piece that was missing what that now requests were made with a token included in the request payload itself, in addition to the cookie in the headers we already knew about.
An API request for user data containing an API tokenAs you can see, this token is also in a nice searchable format, starting with “xoxc”, so the same technique used by Matt’s BOF to pull the cookie from memory can be used for the token. Now the BOF pulls both, and can be used not only get the credential material needed to browse a target organization’s Slack via a proxy, but also interact with it programmatically.
With these two pieces of information, you can hit the Slack API just as if you were the client when a user clicks around and types. You can even make your own janky Slack bots that post out of your account… which of course I did. But you already knew that from the title. So here’s screenshots of my fellow Specters suffering while I posted the entire Bee Movie into our group chat, each line as its own message. We all know it’s what you’re here for.
🐝 The aftermathQuick aside — you may be thinking: Why go through all the trouble of doing this with the Electron client? Why not just open Slack in a web browser and inspect that traffic?
Anecdotally, I see people using the client way more often, so I wanted to make sure whatever I looked at would be representative of that. Also developers seem to trust dedicated clients more, so the tokens and cookies you snoop from them last much longer. For instance my buddy Jesko got tired of having to reauth to Slack, so he snagged a token from his phone’s client that never expires. My janky Slack bots haven’t had to reauth yet either.
SlackPirate UpdatesSo with our new programmatic access, it is time to loot! For the most part all of my changes to SlackPirate were updating the script to utilize the new token in addition to a cookie. There are a few other changes I threw in though that you may want to be aware of:
And there you have it. With these new updates, you are ready to get back to a nice easy life of not reading and letting Nemesis read your target’s whole Slack for you. So kick back and let your reading comprehension regress to a third-grade level with another classic animal-with-thing-on-head video from the cellar. It is a fine vintage.
https://medium.com/media/c6c2f8d56966e8eab40b836e1e4567ea/href
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DeepSeek, a disruptive new AI model from China, has shaken the market, sparking both excitement and controversy. While it has gained attention for its capabilities, it also raises pressing security concerns. Allegations have surfaced about its training data, with claims that it may have leveraged models like OpenAI’s to cut development costs. Amid these discussions, [...]
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Fenix24 this week acquired vArmour to add an ability to detect the relationship between software, as part of an effort to extend the services it provides to enable organizations to recover faster from a cyberattack.
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The food delivery industry has a fraud problem. With slim profit margins already under pressure, bad actors are exploiting vulnerabilities on both the consumer and courier sides of delivery platforms.
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Searchlight Cyber this week revealed it has acquired Assetnote as part of an effort to unify attack surface management with its platform for detecting stolen data that has been published on the Dark Web.
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JumpCloud this week revealed it has acquired Stack Identity to fuel an effort to add identity security and access visibility capabilities to its directory.
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By 2028, SSL/TLS certificate lifecycles may be cut down to just 47 days - a dramatic shift from the current 398-day maximum. Apple’s recent ballot submission to the CA/Browser Forum proposes this change, and it’s gaining traction among industry leaders, including Sectigo. While some enterprises may see this as an operational burden, the reality is clear: shorter certificate lifespans are a necessary and positive step for digital security and trust.
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