This is one win India isn’t proud of. In July, our country earned the dubious distinction of being the top source of misinformation spread during the Covid-19 pandemic. Think about it. Your social media feeds, YouTube videos, WhatsApp forwards bombard you with information every day. But it is increasingly becoming difficult to separate the grain […]
The new year is always a great time to set new resolutions. And a great resolution is to do things that would help on the professional front. One question that I frequently get asked is how one should build a career in cybersecurity? Having hired and overseen the careers of thousands of cybersecurity professionals at […]
The California Consumer Privacy act In May 2018 when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, many organizations were not ready for it on the mistaken assumption that it does not apply to their business. But it did apply to many of them. It is likely that the new “California Consumer Privacy Act” […]
Hey, It’s been a busy month for me and I was not able to save time to write the final part of the series on Malware Development. But I am receiving too many DMs on Twitter accounts lately to publish the final part. So here we are. If you are reading this blog, I am […]
What is Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while the other computer must run the RDP server software. Everyone who […]
This post discusses the creation of an executable which spawns a reverse Meterpreter shell. All the tools used in this post are publicly available. In the process, I will explain bypass of an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) that detects staged Meterpreter connection, even if it is on HTTPS! Note that this post does not cover […]
Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Ransomware have gained much notoriety in recent times. Locky, Wannacary, Petya and others have largely contributed to making ransomware attacks mainstream knowledge. However, in-spite of such heightened awareness about the prevalence of ransomware, many employees […]
As you might already be aware that ARM powers a variety of low-powered devices around us, including but not limited to, phones, routers, IoT devices, etc. Therefore, it is only logical to dig into this architecture and understand how it differs from x86 and x64 architectures. For this blog post, we will focus on 64bit […]
Prologue In the previous blog here, we reverse engineered a simple binary containing plaintext password in Linux with the help of GNU Debugger (GDB). In this blog however, we will be using the same source code of the binary but compile and debug it in Windows. Reverse engineering tools in Windows are highly different from […]
Prologue The main focus of this blog is to give a push start to the beginners to get in the field of reverse engineering. Since this is the age of x64, I have skipped x86 architecture and will solely be focusing on x64 assembly. However, all the examples that will be written in C++ can […]
