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Xavier Stevens

Staff Security Researcher, Fastly

Xavier Stevens is a Staff Security Researcher at Fastly, with a focus on threat research, detection engineering, and product innovation.

Active exploitation of unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 2 more

We have observed active exploitation attempts targeting three high-severity CVEs: CVE-2024-2194, CVE-2023-6961, and CVE-2023-40000.

Security
Industry insights

Network Effect Threat Report: Uncovering the power of collective threat intelligence

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

Announcing the Network Effect Threat Report, Fastly’s threat intelligence report with insights based on unique data from April to June of 2023

Security
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CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

What you need to know about CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Security

What is TLS Fingerprinting?| Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens

TLS fingerprinting has become a prevalent tool to help security defenders identify what clients are talking to their server infrastructure.

Security

Threat hunting network callbacks in WAF data

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens

Threat hunting is the practice of looking for active attackers who have possibly penetrated security boundaries within an organization. WAF data can be a valuable resource in threat hunting for network callbacks. Here’s how.

Security

Spring: CVE-2022-22963 & Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

In this post, we review details for two RCE vulnerabilities impacting Spring Cloud and Spring Framework, including how Fastly customers can protect themselves from this vulnerability.

Security

WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more

Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.

Engineering
Security

Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.

Industry insights
Security

Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.

Security
Engineering

Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Protection | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

Our Security Research Team has built and deployed a rule to help protect customers of our next-gen WAF against the recently announced Confluence Server OGNL injection vulnerability, CVE-2021-26084.

Security

Next-Gen WAF for Microsoft Exchange | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

Fastly’s security research team has built and deployed a rule to protect Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF customers against the recently announced Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities.

Product
Security