Overview This article presents an end-to-end engagement built entirely around Penelope, an automated shell handler and post-exploitation framework. We catch an initial reverse shell on
Overview This article documents an end-to-end agentic penetration test. Claude Desktop, connected to the Metasploit Framework through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), turns plain-English tasks
Overview This article examines how pairing ShellGPT — an AI-powered command-line assistant driven by the OpenAI API — with Nmap fundamentally changes the pace and
Overview This article delivers a complete, hands-on walkthrough of User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques against a default-configured Windows 10 host. The walkthrough begins with
This walkthrough confirms an uncomfortable truth for defenders: flag-based firewall rules age poorly because Nmap supplies enough scan variants to circumvent any single combination. Length-based
This walkthrough takes you end-to-end against a Windows Server 2019 domain controller in the ignite.local lab. You start exactly where the exam drops you —
The walkthrough covers thirteen distinct attack phases: AD CS template reconnaissance, LDAP enumeration, Kerberos weakness discovery, credential extraction, SAMR account manipulation, Resource-Based Constrained Delegation abuse,
This article walks through three authentication paths that impacket-net supports — NTLM hash (Pass-the-Hash), Kerberos ticket, and AES key — and demonstrates how each one
This article walks through sixteen distinct techniques for enumerating users inside Active Directory, drawing on the full spectrum of protocols an attacker can reach the