usbliter8 – Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Exploit
The usbliter8 SecureROM exploit is big news for jailbreaking iPhones. This hardware vulnerability cannot be fixed with a software update.
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PSE & Red Team Series: Looting
Nathan Anderson continues his Physical Social Engineering and Red Team series with the final step: looting. Learn what shows value to stakeholders in reports.
RoguePlanet: The Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch
The new critical Microsoft Defender exploit, RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), is confirmed active in the wild. Learn what it is and how to protect your network.
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.
The Game is Starting: Release the Fraudsters
Large tournaments bring out fraudsters just as your employees’ guard is down. Raxis CTO Brian Tant discusses recent threats and how to protect your company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software
CVE-2026-0300 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Palo Alto’s PAN-OS software. Discover if you are affected and what to do now.
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.
Bypassing ChatGPT’s Open-Source Model Security Restrictions for Agentic Hacking
Ryan Chaplin wondered what it would take to bypass ChatGPT’s open-source model security restrictions to allow AI to hack his website. See how he did it here.
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