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The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) has uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign orchestrated by a threat group dubbed “Houken.” This group, suspected to be linked to the Chinese intrusion set UN…
If you haven’t recently updated the Sudo utility on your Linux box(es), you should do so now, to patch two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) that have been disclosed on Monday. What is Sudo? Sudo is comma…
Linus Torvalds has officially announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc4, marking the halfway point in the development cycle for the upcoming 6.16 kernel. Despite a notably large merge window, Torvalds described the release candidate process as “fair…
Two deadly Ransomware Attacks on European hospitals show cybercrime now risks lives not just data with patients dying after treatment delays.
New Write-Up Published: Haze [Medium | Windows | Active Directory] – Hack The Box
Just released a walkthrough for Haze, a medium-difficulty Windows machine on Hack The Box. Initial access was obtained by exploiting CVE-2024-36991, a local file inclusion vulnerability in Splunk, to extract LDAP credentials. This enabled a Shadow Credentials attack using PyWhisker and Certipy, allowing lateral movement to a high-privileged domain user. For privilege escalation, I utilized Splunk admin access to deploy a reverse shell via a crafted app package. Upon gaining shell access, I escalated privileges to NT SYSTEM by abusing SeImpersonatePrivilege with SweetPotato. This box offers great insight into chained Active Directory abuse and Splunk misconfigurations.
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Threat actors have been observed exploiting file upload vulnerabilities to deploy web shells and advanced malware on both Windows and Linux systems. The campaign, which showcases a blend of publicly available tools and custom malicious payloads, indica…
In a landmark move for the artificial intelligence industry, Google Cloud has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation, marking a significant step toward open, secure, and interoperable communication between AI agents. The a…
Just wrapped up a detailed walkthrough of the Hack The Box Titanic machine — an easy-rated challenge packed with valuable learning opportunities!
The journey started with exploiting a directory traversal vulnerability to access sensitive Gitea configuration files and extract user credentials. From there, I gained SSH access as the developer user and retrieved the user flag.
Privilege escalation was achieved by exploiting a critical ImageMagick vulnerability (CVE-2024-41817) in a writable directory, allowing arbitrary code execution via a crafted shared library. I also discovered the developer user had unrestricted sudo privileges, providing a straightforward path to root.
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Unit 42 researchers from Palo Alto Networks have identified a renewed wave of attacks by the Prometei botnet, specifically targeting Linux servers, as of March 2025. Initially discovered in July 2020 with a focus on Windows systems, Prometei has since …
Researchers discovered two local privilege escalation flaws that could let attackers gain root access on systems running major Linux distributions. Qualys researchers discovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities, an attacker can exploit them to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The two vulnerabilities are: The first flaw (CVE-2025-6018) allows an unprivileged […]