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Continue reading →: GOLDEN SAML: A Red-Team Operator’s Technical Guide to Forging Cloud IdentityIntroduction Golden SAML has become one of the most effective identity-subversion techniques available to red-team operators targeting hybrid environments. Its power comes from its simplicity: if a cloud provider trusts an identity provider’s signing certificate, then anyone holding that private key can mint their own identities out of thin air.…
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Continue reading →: AI-Powered Cloaking-as-a-Service: The Next Invisible BattlegroundArtificial intelligence is unlocking extraordinary defensive capabilities for modern security teams, but it is also empowering attackers in ways the industry is only beginning to understand. Among the most disruptive developments is the emergence of AI-powered Cloaking-as-a-Service (CaaS)—a new class of adversarial infrastructure designed to systematically deceive AI-based security controls.…
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Continue reading →: The Passkey Pwned Attack: Breaking the “Unbreakable”Passkeys are marketed as the beginning of the passwordless era, a modern authentication strategy that will supposedly end phishing, neutralize credential stuffing, and render brute-force attacks obsolete. Security vendors package passkeys as a silver bullet — a cure for every authentication ailment. As red teams, we know better. Every new…
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Continue reading →: Understanding TPM AttestationTrusted Platform Module (TPM) attestation, particularly as implemented in Windows 11 and Microsoft’s Azure Attestation Service, represents a paradigm shift in how computers prove their integrity. Yet beneath the layers of encryption and authentication lies a deeper question: who defines what it means for your device to be trustworthy —…
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Continue reading →: BIMI: Email Trust and Brand IdentityIn the vast digital ecosystem, email has remained the most resilient communication medium. Despite decades of evolution, one challenge has persisted: the uncertainty of who actually sent a message. Phishing campaigns, spoofed identities, and counterfeit domains have eroded confidence in email authenticity. Yet from that turbulence emerged a new idea…
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Continue reading →: Dead-Drop Resolvers: From Cold-War Tradecraft to Smart-Contract C2Malware authors are reviving an old espionage trick—the dead drop—for the internet era. Instead of stashing a roll of microfilm in a park bench, modern strains reach out to public, hard-to-takedown services to fetch instructions that point to real command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. Recent campaigns push this idea further by hiding…
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Continue reading →: MalTerminal, Explained: Why LLM-Enabled Malware Changes the Game for Both SidesMalTerminal is the canary in the coal mine for a new class of threats: malware that doesn’t ship its primary payload at all. Instead, it asks a large language model (LLM) to write the payload on the fly, then runs whatever it receives. That one design choice breaks a lot…
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Continue reading →: First, We Listen: Why Ethical Hacking Begins with OSINTBefore a single packet touches a test host, every skilled red team starts by listening. Recon isn’t a loud rattle of ports and payloads; it’s quiet study—reading public footprints, connecting clues, and forming testable ideas. That first act of listening is OSINT: open-source intelligence. Done properly, OSINT keeps a penetration…
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Continue reading →: When the Calendar Becomes a Weapon: A Novel Attack VectorIntroduction For years, organizations have focused their defenses on the inbox. Phishing detection, spam filtering, URL rewriting, and attachment sandboxing have matured into strong safeguards against email-borne threats. Yet adversaries continue to probe for weaknesses that lie outside the obvious battleground of the message body. One overlooked entry point has…
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Continue reading →: Cloaking the Footprints: Hide Artifacts🌐 Introduction In the intricate dance between cyber adversaries and defenders, one of the most cunning maneuvers is concealing the very traces of intrusion. Imagine a burglar who not only avoids being seen but also erases every footprint, fingerprint, and hint they were ever there. In cybersecurity, this tactic has…

