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Security Researcher. Reminiscing the days of "C:\con\con" and people are terrible parsers. X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

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Joined July 2012
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This is pretty embarrassing 🙈 Microsoft has a signed Defender driver that can be abused to kill Defender/EDR and modify protected files and registry settings We also can’t really solve this the usual way by adding the driver to the vulnerable driver blocklist. It’s Microsoft’s own Defender component!! MSRC says it doesn’t require immediate servicing because you already need admin privileges 😏 Which probably means this MS-signed EDR killer will stay usable for a while. Nice 🫶
Microsoft’s signed Windows Defender Boot-Time Removal driver (BTR.sys) is a one-shot kernel component that decrypts an RC4-encrypted transaction list from an Alternate Data Stream and performs Ring-0 operations. An attacker with SeLoadDriverPrivilege can craft a valid encrypted config and load it early via a transient “Boot Bus Extender” service, abusing it as a trusted kernel primitive to bypass Tamper Protection, delete EDR/AV components before they start, drop malicious drivers, and gain persistence, without any vulnerability or BYOVD. No in-the-wild abuse has been observed. research.checkpoint.com/2026…
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beignet - Donut for MacOS, converts darwin/arm64 and darwin/amd64 .dylib files into MacOS PIC shellcode, can be used as a CLI or imported as a Golang library github.com/sliverarmory/beig…
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🔀 Reversing for dummies - x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly) Blog: 0x44.cc/reversing/2021/07/21… Author: Sami ALAOUI KENDIL #infosec
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Decode 5.8 GHz FPV with any SDR that reaches the band. HackRF / BladeRF / ANTSDR / USRP / Pluto. Decoding runs in GNU Radio. Linux, macOS, Windows. 64 channels · NTSC + PAL · live spectrum · one-command setup fpv-sdr: github.com/lukeswitz/fpv-sdr
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Have you noticed that those deep-dive stories about complex Windows malware have pretty much vanished, especially in recent years? It feels like the era of "blockbuster" Windows malware has just gone silent, and this blog post tries to give some answers why. r136a1.dev/2026/05/07/where-…
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HashDump-BypassEDR:github.com/AabyssZG/HashDump… 通过系统白程序 Reg.exe 的拓展应用,巧妙绕过EDR的拦截点,实现绕过EDR从而DumpHash😈 该方法针对Windows系列均有效,操作难度不大,具有实战价值🥳 本项目实战文章:blog.zgsec.cn/archives/EDR-D… 源代码和Release已发布,师傅们麻烦点个Star,万分感谢!😍
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My curated awesome list of cybersecurity research, RE material, exploitation write-ups, and tools. github.com/0xor0ne/awesome-l… #infosec
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The US government declassifying a PoC: #include<▇▇▇▇.h> int ▇▇▇_▇▇▇▇ { ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ return ▇▇; } /* * ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ * ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ */
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Get your phrack signed at the @nostarch booth at @defcon Sat at 4p! We'll have @bsdaemon, @chompie1337, @netspooky, @ackmage, and @richinseattle for this rare event! #phrack72 #phrackat40
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Hide your WiFi, hide your BT, hide your LTE… but good luck with that. WarDragon sees all. 🐉👀
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If it’s your first year at Def Con, please make sure to find me in order to receive your official free Def Con members flash drive
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Linux ELF symbols resolution and obfuscation by @elma_ios blog.elmo.sg/posts/breaking-… #infosec #Linux
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Hello, STOP SHARING MALWARE IOCS AS FUCKING MD5S OR SHA1S. ITS 2025. STOP FUCKING DOING IT. JUST STOP. SHARE IT AS A SHA256 LIKE A CIVILIZED PERSON. WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY Thank you,
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