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  • Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    Endpoint security detects many malicious files created with pentest tools, but pentesters can sometimes bypass this by rebuilding source code. Learn how here.
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  • Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

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

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

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

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

    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.
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  • Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    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.
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  • Copy Fail - Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    Copy Fail – Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    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.
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