Date: 04/05/2020
In this article, I will explain how to gain superuser privileges on Mischief VM available on Hack The Box training grounds. During this journey, you will acquire some SNMP skills, understand the IPv6 routing principles, and learn how to deal with the access control list (ACL) regulating the files and folders permissions. In the end, I will show how to write an ICMP shell in Python and test it.
Date: 04/05/2020
“Where’s the money?” Or, rather, “Where did the money go?” The user of a company-owned Windows 10 laptop fell victim of a cyberfraud attack. Or maybe the employee faked it and stole the money while pointing fingers to “evil hackers”? We’ll sure find out.
Date: 15/03/2020
In many cases, the research of an app’s internal structure can be narrowed down to monitoring its traffic. Just a few years ago, a major share of the traffic was transmitted via the plain, easily interceptable HTTP protocol. By now, HTTPS has become the standard in most applications as a part of the defense mechanisms against eavesdropping. Today, I will try to explain what the different defense approaches have in common and whether their common component can be used to create a universal HTTPS interception technique.
Date: 15/03/2020
The intensity of attacks targeting IoT devices increases with year over year. New threats require a complex approach; as a result, security became the top priority for both software developers and hardware manufacturers. This article addresses the primary vectors of attacks against smart gadgets and describes some firmware and data protection techniques using a Nucleo development board equipped with an STM32H743 microcontroller as an example.
Date: 15/03/2020
Today, I will give a brief overview of some of the best pentesting portals recognized by security experts. These training grounds enable ethical hackers to polish their skills while preserving ‘ethicality’ and exploit newly-discovered vulnerabilities while staying within the bounds of the law.
Date: 15/03/2020
This article addresses several critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office programs. They aren’t new and had caused a great stir a while back. Metasploit Framework modules have already been developed for these bugs, and plenty of related projects are available on GitHub. However, unpatched copies of Microsoft Office (starting from version 2003 and up to and including Office 2016) still remain in the wild dragging down corporate security and opening paths for malicious attacks.
Date: 15/03/2020
A good knowledge of pivoting (a technique used to route traffic to the victim and back through interim hosts) is essential for any ethical hacker. Furthermore, this skill is absolutely mandatory for corporate network pentesting. In this article, I am going two hack two simple virtual machines on Hack The Box and demonstrate how to route traffic in the course of pentesting.