The digital landscape was shaken recently as X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, experienced a major global outage. From yesterday…

Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

I was invited to a bug bounty target with this scope

In this journey, I will share my experience with a valid report I submitted. This will be a series until I discover new vulnerabilities…

In NahamCon CTF 2025, the challenge “Cryptoclock” disguised itself under the name “Screenshot,” but quickly revealed its nature through a…

How a small flag inserted into an LLM can help test for irregularities in your products!

From Proton to Tresorit, from kDrive to pCloud, Swiss services promise privacy – but none offer true end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, or full transparency. The myth of the Alpine…

This week, I dove more into the Windows registry and file systems. Making changes to the registry and using non-malicious tools is often…

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How cybercriminals are weaponizing viral content to spread sophisticated malware

I asked Gemini to recommend the most secure, encrypted email provider. What I got was a brochure in disguise – long, polite, and completely useless. I asked Gemini – Google’s much-celebrated AI – a…

My Master’s Capstone Project with KAISURA

In the fast-paced battlefield of penetration testing, speed, stealth, and customization are your greatest allies. While off-the-shelf tools…

Recon, exploitation, privilege escalation.

Preserving privacy while using a digital computer is really hard. You have to keep in consideration your setup, Internet connection and…

Palo Alto Networks’ DNS Security is a cloud-based threat prevention service that extends the capabilities of their Next-Generation…

These tools didn’t just help me code better -they changed how I think about coding.

Investigating a Compromised Endpoint Using MFTECmd and Timeline Explorer.

Introduction: A Silent Threat Undermining Cyber Defense

In Splunk Enterprise, workflow actions empower users to take context-aware actions directly from search results, enhancing the…

The Wild West of Digital Fakery: Buckle Up, Netizens! 🚀