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31 August 2023
Megadrone. Assembling a long-range and jammer-resistant hacker drone
Imagine that you are sitting with your computer on an upper floor of a secure building located in the middle of a restricted zone fenced by electrified barbed wire. You feel completely safe: cameras and vigilant security personnel protect you. As of a sudden, you hear (...)
22 August 2023
Diving Deep into Cybersecurity: Unlocking Advanced Tech Discussions for the Inquisitive Minds
This is an external third-party advertising publication. Unveiling Cybersecurity’s Hidden Secrets: Beyond the Basics Welcome, curious readers! In this incredibly fast-paced and interconnected world, staying up-to-date with the ever-evolving cybersecurity world is becoming (...)
15 August 2023
Poisonous fruit. How to assemble your own Wi-Fi Pineapple and put it to use
In sci-fi movies, hackers often use small pocket devices, less than a cellphone in size, to hack a company’s wireless network, gain access to its servers, and steal passwords. This article gives you a chance to become one of such hackers; all you need for this is a (...)
29 July 2023
Invisible device. Penetrating into a local network with an ‘undetectable’ hacker gadget
Unauthorized access to someone else’s device can be gained not only through a USB port, but also via an Ethernet connection – after all, Ethernet sockets are so abundant in modern offices and public spaces. In this article, I will explain how to penetrate into a local (...)
20 July 2023
Evil modem. Establishing a foothold in the attacked system with a USB modem
If you have direct access to the target PC, you can create a permanent and continuous communication channel with it. All you need for this is a USB modem that must be slightly modified first. In this article, I will explain in detail how to deliver such an attack. What if (...)
7 July 2023
Evil Ethernet. BadUSB-ETH attack in detail
If you have a chance to plug a specially crafted device to a USB port of the target computer, you can completely intercept its traffic, collect cookies and passwords, and hack the domain controller. The attack is delivered over Wi-Fi, and this article explains how to (...)
7 July 2023
VERY bad flash drive. BadUSB attack in detail
BadUSB attacks are efficient and deadly. This article explains how to deliver such an attack, describes in detail the preparation of a malicious flash drive required for it, provides code that must be written on this device, and discusses how to make Windows and Linux users (...)
8 June 2023
Croc-in-the-middle. Using crocodile clips do dump traffic from twisted pair cable
Some people say that eavesdropping is bad. But for many security specialists, traffic sniffing is a profession, not a hobby. For some reason, it’s believed that this process requires special expensive equipment, but today, I will show how network traffic can be intercepted (...)
8 June 2023
Cold boot attack. Dumping RAM with a USB flash drive
Even if you take efforts to protect the safety of your data, don’t attach sheets with passwords to the monitor, encrypt your hard drive, and always lock your computer before leaving it unattended, this doesn’t guarantee that your information is safe. Your RAM can be easily (...)
20 April 2023
Sad Guard. Identifying and exploiting vulnerability in AdGuard driver for Windows
Last year, I discovered a binary bug in the AdGuard driver. Its ID in the National Vulnerability Database is CVE-2022-45770. I was disassembling the ad blocker and found a way to use the identified vulnerability for local privilege escalation. As a bonus, this article gives (...)
