Security
Penetration Testing, Security,
NIS2 Security Directive Compliance: Everything Essential Entities Need to Know
Is your organisation prepared for the evolving cybersecurity landscape? The European Union recently introduced the NIS 2 Directive (NIS2) in 2023. This significant update to the original NIS Directive aims to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of essential entities across critical sectors. This article provides a clear overview of NIS2 and its implications for your organisation. We’ll also explore how Cyrex, ...
26 March 2024
Penetration Testing, Security,
DORA Compliance: Fortify Finance with Penetration Testing
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a new EU regulation enforcing stricter IT risk management procedures, will go into effect in January 2025 to protect financial systems from disruptions and cyberattacks. With cyberattacks on financial institutions on the rise, the average cost of a data breach in the financial industry worldwide reached a staggering 5.9 million U.S. dollars in 2023. ...
26 March 2024
Security, Video Games,
The Growing Challenges of Online Gaming Services: Performance, Scalability & Security
Don’t be fooled by the title, we know that online gaming is nothing new. However, we’ve noticed a staggering increase in the inclusion of online functions or some degree of online connectivity, even in fully singleplayer experiences. Whether it’s for a gameplay reason or for anti-piracy reasons, such as the controversial Always-on DRM, we’re seeing a transition where gaming ...
14 March 2024
Security,
Intercepting HTTPS Traffic in Desktop Apps & Games: Cyrex Engineers at Work
We’re back checking in with our engineering team, discussing some of the work they do in their spare time to hone their skills and help make the digital world a safer place. Visiting us again is Hazem Elsayad, Lead Offensive Security Engineer for the Cyrex team. He’s got some more fantastic case studies and write-ups of his work including his ...
14 February 2024
Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing, Security,
Bug Bounty Write-Up: Cyrex Engineers at Work
We often say that at Cyrex, our team live and breath cybersecurity and it’s no exaggeration! Our security engineers often seek out bug bounties and other challenges to support their ongoing careers and cybersecurity efforts. In this ongoing series, we’ll dive into some of the write-ups from our security engineers and show you a little of the talent that makes ...
11 January 2024
Blockchain, Security,
Uncovering Vulnerabilities: Decoding the Off-chain Code of Blockchain Bridges
My name is Kyryl Volkov and I’m one of Cyrex’ resident security engineers. In this blog post, I’ll take you through and discuss 2 critical vulnerabilities in the bridge backend I discovered during one of our security assessments in Cyrex. These vulnerabilities allow malicious actors to steal all funds from the bridge. It was a typical [burn & mint] bridge, ...
27 November 2023
Security, Video Games,
RPC Validation with Unreal Engine
We recently took a dive back into Unreal Engine Network Security and touched on a few key elements as we keep up with the evolving digital landscape. We were proud to look back at the original article from several years ago and see it maintained relevancy. In the new article however, we spoke again about Remote Procedure Calls or RPCs. ...
21 November 2023
Security,
Unreal Engine Network Security Revisited
Over the past few years, we’ve endeavoured to educate and inform as many people as possible about the deeper workings of the cybersecurity world. Unreal Engine network security is one such area we’ve tried to demystify, given how popular it is. Since our last two articles, on Unreal Engine networking and Unreal Engine security best practices, we’re proud and delighted ...
1 November 2023
Development, Load Testing, News, Security,
Looking Back at 8 Years of Cyrex
What a journey it has been for Cyrex, it scarcely feels like eight years at all! We’ve come a long way, from a small team starting in college, to a global presence working with some of the biggest names. Our growth has been so much over these years that we know, all those years ago, we couldn’t have dreamed of ...
30 August 2023