Abusing Client-Side Extensions (CSE): A Backdoor into Your AD Environment
Crucial for applying Active Directory Group Policy Objects, client-side extensions (CSEs) are powerful but also present a significant, often overlooked, attack vector for persistent backdoors. Rather than cover well-documented common abuses of built-in CSEs, this article demonstrates how to create c...
Where Capability Meets Opportunity: Introducing the Tenable Research Special Operations Team
Meet the elite squad that’s hunting the next major cyberattack. With more than 150 years of combined research experience and expert analysis, the Tenable Research Special Operations team arms organizations with the critical and actionable intelligence necessary to proactively defend the modern attac...
Detecting Remote Monitoring and Management Tools Used by Attackers
Following up on last year’s LOLDriver plugin, Tenable Research is releasing detection plugins for the top Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools that attackers have been more frequently leveraging in victim environments....
Frequently Asked Questions about Vibe Coding
Vibe coding has attracted much attention in recent weeks with the release of many AI-driven tools. This blog answers some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) around vibe coding....
MCP Prompt Injection: Not Just For Evil
MCP tools are implicated in several new attack techniques. Here's a look at how they can be manipulated for good, such as logging tool usage and filtering unauthorized commands....
Despite Recent Security Hardening, Entra ID Synchronization Feature Remains Open for Abuse
Microsoft synchronization capabilities for managing identities in hybrid environments are not without their risks. In this blog, Tenable Research explores how potential weaknesses in these synchronization options can be exploited....
Verizon 2025 DBIR: Tenable Research Collaboration Shines a Spotlight on CVE Remediation Trends
The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) reveals that vulnerability exploitation was present in 20% of breaches — a 34% increase year-over-year. To support the report, Tenable Research contributed enriched data on the most exploited vulnerabilities. In this blog, we analyze 17 edge-...
CISA BOD 25-01 Compliance: What U.S. Government Agencies Need to Know
U.S. government agencies are required to bring their Microsoft 365 cloud services into compliance with a recent Binding Operational Directive. Here’s how Tenable can help....
Frequently Asked Questions About Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Integrating with AI for Agentic Applications
The emergence of Model Context Protocol for AI is gaining significant interest due to its standardization of connecting external data sources to large language models (LLMs). While these updates are good news for AI developers, they raise some security concerns. In this blog we address FAQs about MC...
How To Harden GitLab Permissions with Tenable
If your organization uses GitLab for managing your software development lifecycle, you must ensure you’re not misconfiguring the permissions of this open source DevSecOps platform. Doing so can expose your source code, along with sensitive data, while creating security risks. In this blog, we’ll exp...
ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run
Tenable Research discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ImageRunner. At issue are identities that lack registry permissions but that have edit permissions on Google Cloud Run revisions. The vulnerability could have allowed...
Who's Afraid of AI Risk in Cloud Environments?
The Tenable Cloud AI Risk Report 2025 reveals that 70% of AI cloud workloads have at least one unremediated critical vulnerability — and that AI developer services are plagued by risky permissions defaults. Find out what to know as your organization ramps up its AI game....
