Chaining API weaknesses to gain deeper access and expose data

Understand CSRF vulnerability and practice exploiting insecure state-changing requests.

Discover hidden web content using manual techniques, OSINT, and Gobuster enumeration.

Introduction: The Engineering Paradigm of “Building” in Cybersecurity Research

One thing enjoy throughout my cybersecurity learning journey is discovering how closely security and QA overlap.

Unauthorised KeyManager modification via Java reflection bypass — enabling cryptographic registry tampering inside Google’s ecosystem

The complete beginner-friendly guide — what IDOR is, where to find it, and how to test it step by step

In a single stretch this spring, the AI and crypto world ran up an expensive lesson, and almost none of it needed a human at the keyboard…

The Tuesday Everything Stopped: How Ten Cyberattacks Rewrote the Rules of Modern Conflict

Reverse engineering the GoFly driver to discover an unprotected IOCTL that allows any user-mode process to kill AV/EDR ,no exploits, no…

Overview

From Web Parameter Manipulation to Root Cron Hijacking: A Story of Poor Isolation

Introduction

Lab can be found at: https://webverselabs-pro.com/

An Infinite Loop in Samsung’s UltraHDR Stack So I found a loop that doesn’t stop. That’s the whole story. But since “loop doesn’t stop” isn’t a writeup, here’s the longer …

The cyberattack that used to take a team of experts a week now takes one person and a laptop an afternoon. Here’s what changed — and what…

Welcome to this new Medium post. Today, we’ll take a look at one of the most popular UAC bypass techniques in Windows and explore how it…

A beginner-friendly Linux privilege escalation machine focused on LFI, SSH key discovery, sudo abuse, and cronjob privilege escalation.

Introduction

Building My First SOC Lab with Splunk and Sysmon Over the last few weeks, I wanted to move away from only studying cybersecurity concepts and actually start building something practical. Most of the …

Walkthrough for “Slayer” on Hack Smarter Labs