Research Vault

Vulnerability disclosures, whitepapers, and offensive tooling releases.

Whitepaper2026-03-15

Bypassing Modern EDRs using Direct Syscalls and Call Stack Spoofing

This paper explores advanced methodologies for circumventing User-land hooks in next-generation Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions. We detail the utilization of Heaven's Gate alongside synthetic call stacks to maintain complete operational stealth.

Red Teaming12 min read
Research Paper2026-01-22

Quantum-Resistant Cryptography in Web3 Environments

An analysis of lattice-based cryptography implementations meant to replace ECDSA in decentralized networks. We demonstrate a theoretical attack path on early implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber when improperly seeded.

Cryptography25 min read
Case Study2026-02-10

Poisoning the Well: Exploiting LLM Fine-Tuning Pipelines

Case study on how injecting adversarial examples into specialized fine-tuning datasets can create persistent, logic-based backdoors in enterprise Large Language Models. Includes a Proof of Concept using LoRA.

AI Security18 min read
CVE Report2025-11-05

Zero-Click Exploits on iOS WebKit (CVE-2025-XXXX)

Full technical teardown of a sophisticated memory corruption vulnerability within Apple's WebKit. This exploit leverages a logic flaw in JIT compilation to achieve arbitrary RCE without user interaction.

Vulnerability Research30 min read
Whitepaper2025-09-14

Securing Kubernetes Clusters at Petabyte Scale

A comprehensive guide to architecting defense-in-depth for massive K8s environments. Topics cover eBPF-based runtime security, strict pod admission controllers, and automated secret rotation via HashiCorp Vault.

Cloud Security15 min read
Research Paper2025-08-30

Advanced Persistence in UEFI Firmware

Reverse engineering a novel rootkit found active in the wild that persists by flashing itself into the motherboard's SPI flash memory, effectively surviving complete OS reinstalls and hard drive replacements.

Malware Analysis22 min read
Proof of Concept2025-06-12

Exploiting eBPF for Stealthy Linux Rootkits

Demonstration of how the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), a powerful observability tool, can be maliciously weaponized to manipulate kernel-space data structures, hide processes, and capture network packets.

Linux Security20 min read
Case Study2025-04-18

Supply Chain Attacks via CI/CD Pipelines

A review of modern software supply chain compromises, focusing on GitHub Actions abuse, unpinned dependencies, and Typosquatting in NPM. Provides a robust framework for validating container provenance.

DevSecOps14 min read
Whitepaper2024-12-05

Abusing OAuth 2.0 Misconfigurations in Enterprise SaaS

Exploring subtle implementation flaws in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows. This paper details how missing PKCE, weak redirect URI validation, and token leakage can lead to complete account takeover.

AppSec16 min read
Research Paper2024-10-22

Reversing IoT Firmware Architecture

A methodology for extracting, unpacking, and emulating embedded firmware using QEMU. Includes a walkthrough of discovering a hardcoded backdoor in a popular commercial IP camera system.

Hardware Sec24 min read
Proof of Concept2024-07-15

Defeating Biometric Authentication with Generative AI

Using custom Diffusion models to generate high-fidelity synthetic fingerprints and facial maps capable of bypassing consumer-grade biometric scanners with a 78% success rate.

AI Security20 min read
Case Study2024-03-08

Adversary-in-the-Middle (AitM) Phishing Dynamics

Analyzing the traffic flows and evasion techniques of Evilginx2 reverse proxies. The study breaks down how these proxies capture authentication tokens and effectively bypass SMS and App-based MFA prompts.

Social Engineering10 min read