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Active Directory

Kerberoasting: The Complete Guide to Mechanics, Attack, and Defense

A complete guide to Kerberoasting: how SPNs and TGS-REP enable offline cracking, plus detection and defense.
Security

Abusing Windows Token Privileges: The Potato Attack Family

How service accounts with SeImpersonatePrivilege escalate to SYSTEM via JuicyPotato, PrintSpoofer, and RoguePotato, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Privilege Escalation via Unquoted Service Paths on Windows

How unquoted Windows service paths with spaces let low-privileged users plant a binary and escalate to SYSTEM, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Weak Service Permissions: Privilege Escalation via SERVICE_CHANGE_CONFIG on Windows

Abuse misconfigured Windows service DACLs to rewrite binPath and escalate to SYSTEM, plus detection and hardening.
Security

DLL Hijacking: Privilege Escalation and Persistence on Windows

How DLL search order hijacking and phantom DLLs lead to privilege escalation and persistence, plus Blue Team detection and defense.
Windows Privesc

UAC Bypass Techniques: A Practical Overview of Auto-Elevation Abuse

A practical tour of Windows UAC bypass techniques abusing auto-elevating binaries, registry hijacks, and UACME, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

AMSI and Windows Defender Bypass: A Practical Primer

A hands-on primer on AMSI patching, reflection, obfuscation, and in-memory bypasses, with blue-team detection guidance.
Windows Privesc

Named Pipe Impersonation: How Windows getsystem Really Works

A deep dive into ImpersonateNamedPipeClient and how named pipe impersonation powers Meterpreter's getsystem.
Security

Living off the Land: Abusing LOLBAS Binaries on Windows

How attackers abuse certutil, bitsadmin, mshta, regsvr32 and rundll32 to download, execute and evade — plus blue-team detection.
Linux Privesc

Privilege Escalation via the Docker Group: From User to Root

How membership in the docker group is equivalent to root, with PoCs for volume mounts and privileged containers, plus detection.
Tools & Defense

Password Cracking with Hashcat: Modes, Rules, Masks, and Cracking NTLM & Kerberos

A practical guide to Hashcat: hash modes, rule-based and mask attacks, and cracking NTLM and Kerberos hashes plus how to defend.
Tools & Defense

Generating Payloads with msfvenom: Formats, Encoders, and Staged vs Stageless

A practical guide to msfvenom payload generation: formats, encoders, and the difference between staged and stageless shellcode.
Malware & C2

C2 Frameworks Explained: Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Mythic

A practical tour of Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Mythic — beacons, listeners, malleable profiles, redirectors, and OPSEC for red and blue teams.
Mobile API OSINT

Phishing and Initial Access Tradecraft for Authorized Red Teams

A practical look at pretexting, Gophish campaigns, Evilginx MFA phishing, and the blue-team controls that stop them.