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Nikhith retweeted
The OAIC keynote video is live!
Thank you to David Brumley for an excellent keynote, “AI Exploitation, Quantified,” and for giving us plenty to think about as frontier labs push AI’s cyber capabilities forward.
Watch here: youtu.be/HY4_9o2xPvk
Nikhith retweeted
Launching payloads via a service recovery.
RecoverIt crashes a broken Windows service so its recovery action launches a given payload. No Event ID 7045 fired.
A tool by @TwoSevenOneT
Tool: github.com/TwoSevenOneT/Reco…
Post: hackers-arise.com/defense-ev…
#redteam #blueteam
This was a truly well designed CTF challenge set overall. Had all the essential blue team ingredients just right!
👌
Congratulations to the champions of Holmes CTF 2026! Your dedication, speed, and sharp instincts were nothing short of legendary.
And of course, a huge shoutout to all the blue teamers who joined The Reichenbach Directive, and took on the case🔍 It's been quite a ride.
🎁 Don't forget to post your final results using #HolmesCTF and tag @hackthebox to enter our draw for an annual HTB VIP subscription!
Until next year, keep training 🚩
#HackTheBox #HTB #CyberSecurity #BlueTeam #DigitalForensics #HolmesCTF #SOC #MalwareReversing
Nikhith retweeted
Congratulations to the champions of Holmes CTF 2026! Your dedication, speed, and sharp instincts were nothing short of legendary.
And of course, a huge shoutout to all the blue teamers who joined The Reichenbach Directive, and took on the case🔍 It's been quite a ride.
🎁 Don't forget to post your final results using #HolmesCTF and tag @hackthebox to enter our draw for an annual HTB VIP subscription!
Until next year, keep training 🚩
#HackTheBox #HTB #CyberSecurity #BlueTeam #DigitalForensics #HolmesCTF #SOC #MalwareReversing
Nikhith retweeted
On the other side of this, the marketing value is going to be worth far more than whatever bounty they could have possibly received.
Nikhith retweeted
On July 25, our team hacked OpenAI.
It took us less than 72 hours.
Two vulnerabilities chained together gave us access to ChatGPT and Codex accounts belonging to OpenAI employees. We demonstrated the impact with a harmless PR in OpenAI’s internal monorepo.
The full chain:
HEIF upload → libheif heap overflow → RCE → OpenAI SSO flaw → ChatGPT/Codex takeover → connected GitHub → internal PR.
OpenAI fixed the SSO issue roughly 14 hours after our report.
Research by @rootxharsh, @S1r1u5_ and @iamnoooob.
Full technical write-up:
hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-ope…
Neat!
Cyber security vs Cyber crime matrix
If you work in CTI, bookmark this:
CLOAK - a MITRE ATT&CK-style framework for cybercriminal concealment measures.
→ 1,387 TTPs
→ Technical, Behavioral & Physical layers
→ Open source
→ Updated Feb 2026
→ Interactive at opsectechniques.com
Nikhith retweeted
When I started ipurple.team/ two years ago, my goal was to give SOC teams practical detection opportunities across some of the most modern adversarial techniques.
So far, I’ve documented 25 techniques, and every article includes:
✅ SIGMA Rules
✅ Sysmon Configs
✅ Threat Hunting Queries
If you work in Purple Teaming, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, or even the Red Team space, and you want your MITRE ATT&CK coverage to look like the example below, dive into the articles, start emulating, and begin hunting.
If you know that someone else in your network will benefit, feel free to repost.
Nikhith retweeted
The Anthropic report on what TAs did with the models is a lot more interesting than the reports about models going sandbox spelunking during cyber evals.
Nikhith retweeted
AliExpress tiene una forma de identificarte casi invisible. ¿Cómo? Usando el audio de tu PC.
1. Abres la web → se te corta la música del móvil.
No hay <audio> ni <video>. Silenciar la pestaña no sirve. ¿Qué está pasando entonces?
2. Están generando un sonido con JavaScript:
Tú no oyes nada: el volumen va a 0.
Pero sí se manda a los altavoces.
El PC cree que hay audio.
Los auriculares se quedan pillados y no saltan al móvil.
Ese sonido lo usan para identificarte.
Cada CPU y navegador procesa el audio un pelín distinto.
Y eso, junto a canvas, WebGL y más, es tu huella.
Firefox ya hace que la parte del audio casi no sirva.
El truco del Bluetooth… sigue funcionando.
El post original (y el filtro de uBlock):
→ blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/…
Watched Cliff Stoll, Read his book etc. etc. still this man's energy is infectious!
Always many many takeaways!
If you only watch one talk from Defcon
youtu.be/656058JxTM0?is=rNRf…
Nikhith retweeted
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…
We discovered a Rootkit version of CoolClient by Mustang Panda in Pakistan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Russia.
The kernel-mode driver of CoolClient called "Ftool" reveals a very interesting embedded PDB path of keyword “Nanjing Laboratory” (南京实验室)👀
securelist.com/honeymyte-coo…
Three zero-days in Windows 11 and Microsoft Entra ID. Over 20 novel attack techniques against passkeys. Toolkit open sourced. Microsoft declined to fix one of them.
Passkeys were supposed to be unphishable. @MGrafnetter from @SpecterOps just presented Pass-the-Passkey at Black Hat.
Global Admin impersonation from a standard user account. No user interaction. Bypasses phishing-resistant MFA Conditional Access policies. Zero alerts from Defender for Identity or Entra Identity Protection on M365 E5.
Windows Hello passkeys are still vulnerable after the patches because they always send signature counter 0.
Microsoft scored it 6.5 Medium and paid $1,000. The researcher scored it 8.6 High. Their advisory described it as 'could potentially read small portions of heap memory.'
This is the same team behind BloodHound, Certified Pre-Owned (AD CS), Rubeus, Certify, Seatbelt, SharpDPAPI, SharpUp, Ghostwriter, Nemesis, SharpSCCM, and CuddlePhish. They consistently ship research that changes how the industry thinks about Active Directory and identity security.
If you do red teaming, pentesting, identity security, Entra ID, FIDO2, WebAuthn, Windows Hello, phishing-resistant MFA, or detection engineering, this is the most important identity research to drop this year.
Pass-the-Hash for the passwordless era.
i.blackhat.com/BH-USA-26/Pre…
#Infosec #RedTeam #DetectionEngineering
Nikhith retweeted
anthropic: if we release this humanity might end.
qwen: here is god in a zip file please star our repo
Nikhith retweeted
give me six hours to chop down a tree and i will spend the first four figuring out how to give to axe to claude





























