News
11 March 2024
Ethical Hacking Report 2023: Web, Cloud, and Infrastructure Top the Risk Chart
Citadelo’s Ethical Hacking Report 2023 reveals 2,795 vulnerabilities found in 384 simulated attacks. Web, Cloud, and Infrastructure remain the most exposed areas — highlighting the urgent need for proactive security testing to close critical gaps.
1 March 2024
CVE Alert: Python API Library Allowed Remote Code Execution
A small configuration slip. A rarely used content type. One well-placed payload — and your Python app is under someone else’s control. This CVE proves it.
20 February 2024
Penetration test quality vs. recruitment quality?
What does it mean that in Citadelo a hacker is hiring a hacker? Interview with our HR Manager Dita. Find more about hacker recruitment at Citadelo and how it affects the quality of the team and therefore the quality of the pentests.
12 February 2024
CI/CD Misconfigurations That Could Break Your Production
What happens when your CI/CD pipeline skips one too many security checks? In our latest assessment, we chained multiple vulnerabilities—from GitHub misconfigurations to OpenShift exposure—and landed a webshell in production.
29 January 2024
CVE Hat-trick: 3 Major Vulnerabilities Found by Our Hacker
At Citadelo, discovering CVEs isn’t just a badge of honor — it’s how we keep systems safe. Here’s the story behind a triple find: one hacker, three vulnerabilities, and critical insights for anyone serious about cybersecurity.
16 October 2023
The Beginnings of Citadelo: The First Bank and a Hacked Dam
Before we were a trusted cybersecurity partner with clients across Europe, we were just a couple of hackers in a borrowed meeting room with no coffee machine and a Windows phone. This is the story of how Citadelo got started—from our first hacked bank to a hacked dam and beyond.