DC-9 Penetration Testing Lab: From SQL Injection to Root Access

The initial foothold wasn’t the interesting part. It was what the server could see from the inside.

A question-by-question breakdown of investigating a service-account compromise from web logs to lateral movement, using Splunk and Zeek.

PreSecurity path-ini bitirdikdən sonra CyberSecurity 101 yolumda ən vacib dayanacaqlardan birinə — Linux Fundamentals seriyasına daxil…

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Contactless cards and key fobs are now part of everyday life. They unlock apartment buildings, identify employees, open hotel rooms, record attendance and interact with electronic locks. Although many of these credentials look similar from the outside, the…

Most vulnerability research focuses on breaking authentication, bypassing authorization, or exploiting technical weaknesses such as SQL…

AI tools have quietly become part of almost everyone’s daily routine — drafting emails, summarizing documents, planning trips, writing…

An institution can be fully compliant, fully assured, and still exposed.

Slonik is an interesting Linux machine because the initial foothold doesn’t come from an obvious remotely exploitable service. Instead, the…

I spent years hearing “Active Directory” in cybersecurity content. I never really understood it. Until today.

TL;DR Walkthrough of the TryHackMe rooms Phishing Basics and Introduction to Wordlists.

The Citizen Lab confirmed a Pegasus spyware infection on the iPhone of a Serbian student activist on September 2, 2026. The attack used a zero-click iMessage exploit, so it needed no clicks or tap…

TL;DR SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerabilities are currently being actively exploited in the wild. Threat actors chain these zero-day flaws to execute arbitrary code on susceptible VPN devices. Conseque…

TL;DR Software developer JetBrains has resolved 29 security flaws across its enterprise ecosystem. These JetBrains vulnerabilities include two critical flaws that threaten administrative control. …

At a Glance Malware family: Multiple families including ModeloRAT, EtherRAT, AsukaStealer, and C2Looper Threat actor: Suspected initial access broker Woodgnat (KongTuke) and unnamed cybercrime gro…

TL;DR Security researchers have uncovered two critical vulnerabilities leading to a complete Rclone auth proxy bypass. These flaws enable remote attackers to circumvent authentication mechanisms e…

A researcher published full technical details and proof-of-concept code for a Windows HTTP.sys vulnerability on September 2026. Tracked as CVE-2026-62735, the flaw carries a 7.8 CVSS score. It let…

Netskope Threat Labs found a major upgrade to the Python NodeStealer malware in August 2026. The Facebook-focused infostealer now works as full spyware. It logs keystrokes, watches the clipboard, …

Adobe shipped an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity flaw in Adobe Commerce and Magento on September 7, 2026. The Adobe Commerce vulnerability, CVE-2026-75650, scores a perfect 10.0 CVSS. It g…

The Leviathan wargame primarily focuses on basic reverse engineering, file permissions, exploiting SUID binaries, and understanding system…