I recently participated in the PTN CTF 2025, held in celebration of its 12th anniversary at ULLENS College. It was an enjoyable and…

Author: Berend Watchus, summary

In today’s digital world, social media has become part of everyday life. Teenagers spend hours on platforms like Instagram, Facebook…

From Recon to Root: Exploiting the vsFTPd Backdoor on Metasploitable 2

On August 16–18, 2025, cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm: the entire source code of the sophisticated Android banking trojan…

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a critical ally in the ongoing battle against…

Rajesh Sharma’s textile printing company in Ludhiana was thriving until that Tuesday morning when his entire computer network went dark…

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz online. Influencers, news channels, and social media posts have been celebrating Perplexity AI as an…

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Room: Sneaky Patch Challenge Type: Kernel Forensics / Persistence Difficulty: Easy

An Easy and Popular Challenge for Beginners

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and stoic philosopher, left behind words of timeless wisdom. While his quotes often guide us in our…

Every time you open a website like your bank, Gmail, or even Instagram, your browser doesn’t just load the page, it first makes a secret…

Exploring the foundations of fuzzing and building a mini fuzzer to see how programs break under malformed input.

The Trojan firewall

TLDR: Foothold — Web server enumeration + SMTP enumeration + phishing attack; Privesc — DLL hijacking

Colleagues, on average a Cybersecurity Engineer earns $143k USD in the US according to Glassdoor. The first strategy is to Get Certified…

TLDR: Foothold — ZMTP public expoit (ports 4505, 4506); Privesc — NIL

Author: Berend Watchus