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  • Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    By Andrew Trexler BloodHound’s Community Edition has everything a penetration tester needs to enumerate relationships in a domain in order to gain more access, even Domain Admin. June 2, 2026
  • CVE-2026-36748: XSS in Rock RMS Leads to Privilege Escalation

    CVE-2026-36748: XSS in Rock RMS Leads to Privilege Escalation

    By Jason Taylor Raxis Lead Pentester Jason Taylor recently discovered CVE-2026-36748, a high-risk XSS vulnerability in Rock RMS that allows privilege escalation to admin. June 1, 2026
  • Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

    Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation: A Practical Guide for Container Workloads

    By Ryan Chaplin With current local privilege escalation exploits like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag active in the wild, harden your defenses to halt attacks even before patching. May 26, 2026
  • Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    By Scottie Cole Now that CrackMapExec is no more, how is a pentester to rapidly test credentials, enumerate assets, spray passwords, and more? Learn the basics of NetExec here. May 19, 2026
  • Copy Fail - Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    Copy Fail – Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    By Jason Taylor CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, allows privilege escalation to root on Linux distros missing the latest kernel patches. Learn what to do in this blog. May 8, 2026
  • No Malware Required

    No Malware Required

    By Brian Tant The March 2026 attack on Stryker Corporation was not Malware and did not make Ransomware demands. Instead it used compromised credentials to disrupt business. May 1, 2026