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HTB: Expressway

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Expressway is a Linux box with only SSH and an IKE VPN service on UDP. I’ll use ike-scan in aggressive mode to leak the VPN identity and capture a pre-shared key hash, which cracks quickly with hashcat. Connecting to the IPSEC VPN doesn’t provide...

YARA-X's 1.14.0 release brings 4 improvements and 2 bugfixes. One of the improvements is a new CLI command: deps. This command shows you the dependencies of rules. Here is an example. Rule rule1 has no dependencies, rule rule2 depends on rule...

This is a very weird story about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules. At Constantinople’s Monastery of Stoudios, the kitchen didn’t answer to appetite. It answered to the “typikon”: a...

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the...

An unknown hacker used Anthropic’s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to...

Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel’s hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country’s leadership. The New York Times has an on the intelligence operation more generally.

Microsoft is reporting: Companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory via URL prompt parameters…. These prompts instruct the AI...

And another XWorm[1] wave in the wild! This malware family is not new and heavily spread but delivery techniques always evolve and deserve to be described to show you how threat actors can be imaginative! This time, we are facing another piece of...

CrushFTP is a Java-based open source file transfer system. It is offered for multiple operating systems. If you run a CrushFTP instance, you may remember that the software has had some serious vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-4040 (the...

On Moltbook

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The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are...

HTB: Barrier

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Barrier is a Linux box with GitLab, Authentik, and Apache Guacamole. I’ll exploit a SAML signature bypass vulnerability in GitLab’s Ruby SAML library to forge a SAML assertion and log in as admin. From GitLab’s CI/CD variables, I’ll recover an...

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