Offensive Security
GhostPack Necromancy: Reforging C# Tools with WasmForge
Michelle Rhodes | | C++, EDR evasion, GhostPack, NativeAOT, Offensive Security, Red Teaming, Rubeus, Seatbelt, Tools & Techniques, Vulnerability Research, WasmForge, WebAssembly
In the previous post we walked through WasmForge, our Go-to-WebAssembly loader that takes existing signatured Go tools and ships them as opsec-safe binaries. This approach doesn’t just apply to Go, however, as ...
FreeBSoD: Leveraging Language Models to Find and Exploit Kernel Bugs (Part 1 of 2)
Michelle Rhodes | | AI Security, Claude Code, CodeQL, CVE-2026-3038, Exploit Development, FreeBSD, KASAN, Kernel Security, Offensive Security, Tools & Techniques, Vulnerability Research, zero-day
Overview Earlier this year, a team at Praetorian was building Constantine, our automated 0-day discovery engine. I wanted to find techniques worth folding into it, so on the side I started poking ...
Centurion: Bring Your Own Execution Environment
Michelle Rhodes | | Centurion, LLM Development, Offensive Security, Red Team, security insights, Tools & Techniques, Virtualized Loader, Vulnerability Research, WasmForge
Writing my own virtualized loader is something I’ve been wanting to do since I first read Microsoft’s deep dive on FinFisher’s multi-layered VM obfuscation back in 2018. FinFisher didn’t just use one layer of ...
Enter the WasmForge: Compiling Sliver into WebAssembly
Michelle Rhodes | | AI Offensive Security, C2 development, Claude Code, EDR, EDR evasion, Labs, malware automation, Offensive Security, open source, red-team-tools, Tools & Techniques, Vulnerability Research
In our last post we used a Claude skill to systematically beat down VirusTotal detection rates on offensive security tools, with a brief mention of a new loader we’d been using to ...
When Encryption Isn’t Really Encryption
Michelle Rhodes | | CVE, CVE-2026-1789, enterprise security, IoT Security, Offensive Security, printer security, Uncategorized, Vulnerability Research
Discovery During a recent network security assessment, we were working on an environment that was well-hardened – Patching was current, password policies were strong, and network segmentation was in place. So, as ...
Adversarial Oracles: LLM-Guided EDR Signature Reduction
Michelle Rhodes | | adversarial, AI Security, Offensive Security, open source, Red Team, Static Analysis, Tools & Techniques
In previous blog posts we’ve talked about getting nerd sniped. Today we’re going to talk about a kind of nerd sniping that any offensive security tool creator is familiar with; when your ...
Your Login Page Is Lying: What AI Agents Find When They Read Your Frontend
Michelle Rhodes | | AI Security, Application Security, Attack Surface Management, Offensive Security, Red Team, security insights, Tools & Techniques, Vulnerability Research
TL;DR: Single-page applications ship their entire frontend codebase to every visitor, including unauthenticated ones. Even a login page with no visible functionality delivers JavaScript bundles containing route definitions, API endpoint URLs, authentication ...
How Escape AI Pentesting Exploited SSRF in LiteLLM
Discover three SSRF sinks. A security gate built to stop them. And a nesting trick that walks right past it ...
Benchmarking AI Pentesting Tools: A Practical Comparison
We benchmarked 4 AI pentesting tools: Escape, Shannon, Strix, PentAGI, and Claude against a modern vulnerable application. Learn more about their detection rates, false positive rates, and scanning speed ...
The Purple Team Advantage: Bridging the Gap Between Hacking and Management with Chris Marks
In cybersecurity, we often operate in silos. The red team breaks things, the blue team fixes them, and management focuses on compliance. But what happens when you blend these worlds? In a ...

