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In this tutorial, we will hack the famous Age of Empires 2 game with Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine is an open-source debugger designed specifically to support the modification of single-player games which is perfect for this style of reverse engineering. Our goals for this first tutorial will be to identify where our resources are stored […]
When you initially exploit a system you will usually have a limited shell, especially when conducting client-side exploits. The next step will be upgrading from this shell to a new one with root/system privileges. There are varied methods to accomplishing this escalation which differ highly depending on whether it is a Windows or Linux system. […]
Credential stuffing is far from a new technique yet people’s propensity to re-use credentials has escalated the number of organizations trying to gain initial access through this vector. The opportunity for credential stuffing occurs when a data breach of user names and passwords is stolen from an organization. The hacker takes the hashed passwords and […]
How long should you wait to release an exploit publicly after you notify a company of a flaw in their software? Some organizations like CERT have a 45-day disclosure policy while Google’s Project Zero has a 90-day policy and ZDI has up to 120-days. Balancing the right amount of time can be tricky but a […]
In an attack now being dubbed ShadowHammer, Taiwan based tech company ASUS was compromised by a hacking team that used its trusted update to push malware down to half a million users throughout the globe. This is the latest software supply chain attack in a growing trend where hackers are gaining initial access to systems […]
In this guide, I will put together an example attack against one of metasploitable’s vulnerable Linux virtual machines. If you plan on replicating this, you must ensure you do not expose the metasploitable VM to the outside network otherwise anyone may attack your machine. On VMware there is a “Host-only” setting for your network adapter […]
SPARTA is a GUI network penetration testing tool that easily coordinates and saves your reconnaissance and vulnerability scans. By default, many open source tools can be run against a target with a simple click and Sparta is also written in python which makes adding customized modules easy to develop. SPARTA comes standard in the latest […]
Remote File Inclusions (RFIs) is similar to a Local File Inclusion (LFI) and occur when a HTML GET request has an unsanitized variable input. Unlike a LFI, Remote File Inclusions allow you to reach across the internet and execute any file you desire. Combine this with hosting your own malicious php reverse shell, and you […]
Local File Inclusions occur when an HTTP-GET request has an unsanitized variable input which will allow you to traverse the directory and read files. This attack can often provide key information during a reconnaissance and can sometimes be used to gain remote code execution. A website will indicate it is getting variables with a ? […]
