Detectify founder, Frans Rosén, was awarded PortSwigger’s top web hacking method of 2022 for his research on account hijacking using OAuth quirks in sign-in flows. PortSwigger’s director, James Kettle, said the research identified issues often dismissed for lacking significant security impact. Kettle himself clinched second place for his work on HTTP request smuggling, while Google’s Simon Scannell secured third place for identifying a cache injection vulnerability in Zimbra’s webmail.

North Korean hackers step up phishing attacks on Ukraine government
North Korean state-sponsored cyber actor, TA406, is carrying out phishing attacks and credential-stealing operations against Ukrainian government entities to gather intelligence on the Russian invasion,