SOCMINT: Intelligence in the Social Media Era 🔍

Social media is more than just likes and shares — it’s a goldmine of public data. In our latest article, dive into what SOCMINT (Social Media Intelligence) really is, how it differs from traditional OSINT, and what it can — and can’t — uncover.

We review the most popular SOCMINT tools, unpack real‑world case studies, and highlight key ethical and legal considerations so you can leverage this powerful discipline responsibly.

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/socmint/

CVE-2025-4700, -4439, -7001, and other: Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab, 4.3 - 8.7 rating❗️

Once again, GitLab reports a slew of vulnerabilities fixed. Several XSS, email disclosure, unauthorized access to logs, and other were disclosed.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/3VA55
👉 Dork: http.favicon.hash_sha256:72a2cad5025aa931d6ea56c3201d1f18e68a8cd39788c7c80d5b2b82aa5143ef OR http.headers.set_cookie:"gitlab" OR http.headers.location:"gitlab"

Vendor's advisory: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/23/patch-release-gitlab-18-2-1-released/

Pyramid of Pain: Measuring Adversary Disruption 🔺

In our new article, explore the Pyramid of Pain framework to understand which indicators — hashes, IPs, domains, tactics, and techniques — cause the most disruption to attackers.

Let's learn how to apply this model in your threat hunting and incident response to maximize detection and containment.

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/pyramid_of_pain/

C2 Hunting Case Studies 🎯

See how real-world investigations uncovered command‑and‑control infrastructures — from stealthy beaconing patterns to innovative detection techniques — and learn actionable strategies to elevate your threat hunting game.

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/c2_hunting_cases/

CVE-2025-40600: DoS in SonicWall, 7.5 rating❗️

A "Use of Externally-Controlled Format String" vulnerability allows attackers to perform a remote DoS on some SonicWall VPN instances.

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👉 Link: https://nt.ls/HhWT4
👉 Dork: http.favicon.hash_sha256:6bb6f64adaa6a7ed4da10a2fe4edf4cb4d9914aa742c7ad607ca4ca678dcd3f1

Vendor's advisory: https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0013

CVE-2025-7443: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in BerqWP Plugin, 8.1 rating❗️

Lack of file validation allows attackers to upload arbitrary files, which can lead to RCE.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/puxoz
👉 Dork: http.body:"plugins/searchpro"

Read more: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/searchpro/berqwp-2242-unauthenticated-arbitrary-file-upload

Hannibal Stealer Part 2: Unmasking the Modular Threat 🔓

Explore Hannibal’s evolution into a modular stealer — complete with browser cookie bypasses, Telegram & HTTP C2 channels, FTP/VPN/crypto theft modules, and clipboard hijacking — and learn how to detect and disrupt its operations.

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/hannibal_stealer_part_2/

🚧 Planned Maintenance 🚧
The application may be unavailable for a period of time❗️

On Sunday, August 3, 2025, at 08:00 UTC ⏰, we will servicing the Netlas load balancer. In case of problems, the application may be unavailable for a couple of hours. Our team will do everything possible to prevent this.

Please remember to save your work before this time.

The $1.5 B Bybit Hack & How OSINT Cracked the Case 🔍

On February 21, 2025, the Lazarus Group tricked a Safe{Wallet} developer into approving malicious multisig transactions — netting over $1.4 billion from Bybit’s cold wallet — and covered their tracks with targeted JavaScript injection.

In our latest article, see how open-source sleuthing linked the heist to North Korea’s premier APT and learn the OSINT techniques that unraveled this record-breaking crypto theft.

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/bybit_hack

CVE-2025-53786: Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft Exchange, 8.0 rating❗️

A vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange hybrid configurations could potentially allow an attackers with high local privileges to escalate their privileges in an organization's cloud infrastructure.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/GBh5M
👉 Dork: tag.name:"microsoft_exchange"

Vendor's advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53786

CVE-2025-50055: SAML Injection in OpenVPN Access Server, high rating❗️

The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform JavaScript injection via SAML relaystate, potentially leading to RCE.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/uLSQx
👉 Dork: http.headers.server:"OpenVPN-AS"

Vendor's advisory: https://ssg-dev.openvpn.net/as-docs/as-3-0-release-notes.html#access-server-3-0-versions

I, Robot + NIST AI RMF: Prevent the Great Robot Uprising 🤖

Thinking your toaster couldn’t lead an army? Think again.

In our latest article, we use classic scenes from I, Robot to break down the NIST AI Risk Management Framework’s four pillars — Map, Measure, Manage, Govern — so you can keep your AIs on task (and off the march).

👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/nist_ai_rmf/

CVE-2025-54253 and CVE-2025-54254: Arbitrary code execution in Adobe Experience Manager CMS

Adobe is aware that CVE-2025-54253 and CVE-2025-54254 have a publicly available proof-of-concept. Adobe is not aware of these issues being exploited in the wild.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/MngFC
👉 Dork: tag.name:"adobe_experience_manager"

Vendor's advisory: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/aem-forms/apsb25-82.html

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👉 Read now: https://netlas.io/blog/best_bug_boounty_courses/

CVE-2025-7384: Critical PHP Object Injection in WordPress Plugin

A critical vulnerability has been found in the Database for Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Elementor forms WordPress plugin. Since this is a backend-only plugin, it is not directly detectable through standard search dorks. Supported frontend plugins could help determine the scope. However, only about 1% of hosts identified this way are actually vulnerable.

🔍 Netlas: https://nt.ls/Be3g6
ℹ️ Advisory: https://nt.ls/RoI8t

CVE-2025-27210 – High Severity Path Traversal in Node.js (Windows)

One of our Netlas users identified a serious flaw in Windows builds of Node.js and asked us to inform the community. Any web app running Node.js 20.x before 20.19.4, 22.x before 22.17.1, or 24.x before 24.4.1 on Windows may be at risk of unauthorized file access through path traversal.

⚡️ Update immediately
ℹ️ Advisory: https://nt.ls/YX7xc

CVE-2025-20265 — Critical RCE in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (CVSS 10).

Exploitable by unauthenticated attackers when RADIUS authentication is enabled; affects FMC 7.0.7 & 7.7.0. We see <200 internet-exposed on-prem FMCs (cloud-hosted cdFMC excluded).

🔍 Netlas: https://nt.ls/E5j8D
ℹ️ Advisory: https://nt.ls/C3hPx

Meet Kanvas — an open-source incident response tool that turns chaos into clarity with built-in visualizations, intel lookups, and teamwork-friendly features.

This post, written by an experienced security analyst for fellow security analysts, breaks down how Kanvas can supercharge your IR workflow.

👉 Read the post: https://netlas.io/blog/kanvas/

🚀 Netlas v1.3.0 is live!

This update doubles the number of scanned ports, adds protocol detection to public scans, boosts vulnerability coverage, and makes downloads lightning-fast.

Explore what’s new 👉 https://docs.netlas.io/changelog/#netlas-v1-3-0

⚠️ Today, 2025-08-22, starting from 04:30 UTC, we began experiencing a major service outage.

The issue has been localized to a problem within our database cluster. Our engineering team is actively working to resolve the issue and restore full service as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide updates as we make progress.

CVE-2025-26496 and other: Multiple vulnerabilities in Tableau Server, 7.7 - 9.6 rating 🔥

Five new vulnerabilities in Tableau Server include Type Confusion, Path Traversal, Dangerous File Uploads and Improper Input Validation.

Search at Netlas.io:
👉 Link: https://nt.ls/gsuQl
👉 Dork: http.headers.server:"Tableau"

Read more: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=005132575&type=1