Relaying Trust: Exploiting NTLM Authentication to Compromise Active Directory
he article demonstrates an NTLM relay attack against Active Directory using tools like ntlmrelayx and PetitPotam. By relaying authentication to LDAP, attackers can create accounts, abuse delegation, and gain administrative access.
More on Abusing the Amazon Web Services SSM Agent as a Remote Access Trojan
Imagine that you’re a SOC (Security Operations Center) analyst receiving an alert about suspicious behavior from a binary on an EC2 instance. After checking the binary on VirusTotal, you find it was an AWS-developed software signed by Amazon. Further investigation reveals that it communicated only with Amazon-owned IP addresses.
Breaking Out of Citrix and other Restricted Desktop Environments | Pen Test Partners
Introduction Many organisations are turning to virtualisation of apps and desktops. This often involves virtualisation platforms such as Citrix to deliver these services. Get your configuration or lock-down wrong and you’ll find users ‘breaking out’ of the environment you thought you had secured. It might not be long after that when you find that your entire domain […]
Unit42-timely-threat-intel/2026-03-23- Device-Code-based-OAuth-Phishing.txt at main · PaloAltoNetworks/Unit42-timely-threat-intel
A collection of files with indicators supporting social media posts from Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 team to disseminate timely threat intelligence. - PaloAltoNetworks/Unit42-timely-threat-intel
Decrypting and Abusing Predefined BIOCs in Palo Alto Cortex XDR
Research shows how Palo Alto Cortex XDR predefined BIOC behavioral rules can be decrypted and analyzed. By understanding rule logic and built-in exceptions, attackers can adapt techniques to evade detection and bypass behavioral protections.
How I Found a 0-Day in an Electron App’s Email Viewer
How I Found a 0-Day in an Electron App’s Email Viewer Most people think 0-days are found in glamorous places: cryptography, kernel code, browser internals, or some deeply obfuscated subsystem that …
Silent Harvest: Extracting Windows Secrets Under the Radar
“Silent Harvest” explains how attackers can quietly extract sensitive Windows secrets such as credentials and security keys by abusing legitimate registry and system mechanisms, avoiding LSASS dumping and bypassing many common EDR detections.
The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication
TLDR This post shows how to achieve a full authentication bypass in the Ruby and PHP SAML ecosystem by exploiting several parser-level inconsistencies: including attribute pollution, namespace confusi
Getting a Shell on the Tapo C260 Camera (CVE-2026-0651, CVE-2026-0652, CVE-2026-0653)
I discovered a remote code execution vulnerability on the Tapo C260 after a fun journey of reverse-engineering and understanding its interactions with TP-Link Cloud.
Leveraging LLMs and patch diffing, this research details a Use-After-Free vulnerability in Windows DWM, demonstrating a reliable exploit that achieves escalation from low-privileged user permissions to SYSTEM.
A detailed walkthrough of the 'Yet Another ZIP Trick' challenge from HackArcana, covering schizophrenic ZIP file creation and binary exploitation techniques.
Don't Call That "Protected" Method: Dissecting an N-Day vBulletin RCE | Karma(In)Security
This is the personal website of Egidio Romano, a very curious guy from Sicily, Italy. He's a computer security enthusiast, particularly addicted to webapp security.
The definitive red team guide to persistence across every platform: 50+ techniques across Windows (Registry, IFEO, SSP, Time Provider, Office T1137, Accessibility Features, Application Shimming), Scheduled Tasks, WMI, Services, DLL/COM/AppDomainManager, UEFI Bootkits, Active Directory (Golden/Diamond/Sapphire Ticket, AdminSDHolder, DCSync, DCShadow, Skeleton Key, DSRM, GPO), Linux (cron, systemd, SSH, PAM, eBPF rootkits, LKM, WSL), macOS (LaunchAgents, Login Items, Dylib Hijacking), and Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP, Kubernetes). Real APT TTPs from Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Turla, Lazarus, APT29, APT28, APT41, UNC3944/Scattered Spider. Full OPSEC tradecraft.
Hello again everyone! Hope the start to the new year is treating you well. I am excited to share a new blog post with you! Furthermore, I’d consider the content shared in today’s post to be the most time I’ve spent in researching a particular offensive security topic/technique 😹 I’d say I spent well over a month looking into this exciting topic and I wanted to make sure I had all my research completed before I jumped in to making a post. Without further ado, I give you my take on what I’d like to call: Living off the Process! This is a technique that does as the name implies: We use what is already available to us in the remote process of our choosing to accomplish a given goal. In this case, the goal will be to write shellcode indirectly into the remote process with as low of a footprint as possible. When I say indirectly, I mean we won’t be using WriteProcessMemory to write the shellcode. That API does play a small role, but ultimately we will be indirectly writing our shellcode in 8 byte chunks using ROP gadgets and assembly stubs all made available in the remote process. We will also avoid the creation of RWX regions of memory. Here’s a quick overview on how it all works. We will be looking for:
Instagram account takeover via Meta Pixel script abuse
Introduction Meta’s web ecosystem relies on cross-window messaging between first-party websites. In many cases, the only security control enforced is an origin check validating that messages originate from facebook.com or its subdomains.