Weaponizing Plain Text: ANSI Escape Sequences as a Forensic Nightmare

Logs are a vital component for maintaining application reliability, performance, and security. They serve as a source of information for developers, security teams, and other stakeholders to understand what has happened or gone wrong within an application. However, logs can also be used to compromise the security of an application by injecting malicious content.

In this presentation, we will explore how ANSI escape sequences can be used to inject, vandalize, and even weaponize logfiles of modern applications. We will revisit …

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