So I may be illegitimately biased in favor of hack the box academy because I have had a very good experience with it and not so much with THM so I’ll try to be fair here.

But why all the hate on HTBA? I mean I don’t really get the criticism here. It produces more skilled hackers than offsec at best (not saying that’s me) and gets you from zero to mid level at worst. It is a well-respected platform and I can’t see how it hasn’t earned that respect.

To me it seems like the respect is well deserved.

I just found out that CyberLeek (the person/group responsible for GTA leaks) posted some of his stuff on X/Twitter in a dedicated account. Considering how Sony/TakeTwo clearly would do anything to find their real identity, how come they feel so safe posting on X? Not only the network factor, but also the personal information data factor, like email or phone used to create an account.

Also, I am very much aware of the X account not being actually them, just some clout chasers, but my curiosity and question on the matter stays the same.

The response to DaemonCore Academy over the last couple days has been fucking wild! When I first posted it was because we reached 1,000 downloads, well, since then that number has increased 10 fold. We absolutely love the support from the community. One thing kept showing up in the comments though.

“When is Linux coming?” Well...Now.

DaemonCore Academy is officially available on Linux.

We honestly weren't planning on getting the Linux version out this fast, but enough of you asked for it that we basically said fuck it and got to work right away.

127 practical lessons. Training ranges. Pathways. Drills. Field missions.

And yes, it's still completely free. No subscription. No getting halfway through and finding out the rest is behind a paywall. Just downlaod it and start learning. There were a bunch of you on the last post who literally said “let me know when Linux is ready.” So...

Linux is ready.

Come break it.

Seriously. This version is brand new. If you find something fucked up... tell us. If something doesn't work right on your distro...tell us. If a lesson sucks...tell us that too.

You guys asked for Linux and now you get to help us beat the shit out of it!

DM us anytime if you have questions.

Just maybe not questions about hacking your ex lol.

Stay hacking

PS..Here's a cool hack you can do right now..You can EASILY find out who the vibe coders are...they're down in the comments yelling AI slop. Take a look. They can't even tell a hand written article from AI generated.

— DaemonCore

EDIT: working through Linux bug reports now. Keep them coming

Netanel Rubin and Dan Avraham presented “Bye Bye AI” at Black Hat this year, where they broke a major US retailer’s AI shopping assistant and chained it all the way to remote code execution on the retailer’s backend, entirely through the public mobile app.

Getting a chatbot to say something it shouldn’t is not an exploit. To matter, an attack has to exfiltrate data or affect the account in some unintended way, and there are only two paths out of the sandbox:

1. The user carries the data out themselves, which means social engineering.
2. A technical vulnerability carries it out, which means finding a flaw in the harness that grants elevated access plus a channel to send data outward.

Neither path is a single move. Both are chains, and the first link in either one is the same: get the model to accept input that produces a response it should have refused. 

That is the piece I want to focus on today. 

What follows is a phishing lure that gets an attacker to phase one by leading a user to submit a prompt without understanding what it does. 

The idea borrows loosely from ClickFix, where a user is tricked into running an attacker's command themselves, except here the final action is sending a prompt rather than running a shell command.

Recently made a GitHub and updated it with more captive portals, specifically meant to be able to be ran on devices such as the esp32. Let me know on discord or Reddit if you have any ideas for any other captive portals you may have.

Discord Username: hitgrandmanotjuul

Honestly didn't expect to be making this post this soon! like, what?!

DaemonCore-Academy just crossed 1,000 downloads.

**127 PRACTICAL LESSONS // 70 LAB CONDITIONS // 8 PATHWAYS // 8 DRILL SETS // 7 FIELD MISSIONS**- all free. It's for Windows 10/11

I started building it because I was getting annoyed af with the way a lot of hacking/cyber stuff gets taught now. Watch 9 hours of videos, copy some commands, run a tool against a box, get a green checkmark. Cool. But what happens when the tool doesn't work? What are you actually looking for? Why are you running that command in the first place? That was basically the whole idea behind DaemonCore Academy. Learn what the hell is happening underneath first. Then get thrown into a range and actually use it. Enumerate shit. Follow weird behavior. Break something. Prove you broke it. Figure out why. Document it. Fix it. Try again.

I didnt want XP or some fake hacker leaderboard. I wanted something that felt closer to sitting next to somebody who's been doing this shit for years and having them say "okay...you see that? Why is that weird?"

Apparently that idea connected with some people because 1,000 of you fuckers downloaded it.

So seriously, thank you mother fuckers. For real. 💯💯

Especially the people who found bugs, sent me shit that sucked, questioned things, or told me where something could be better. That's way more useful to me than somebody just saying "nice project."....and I'm nowhere near done with it.

The labs are going to get harder. The material is going deeper. Windows, Linux, web, identity, cloud, containers, recon, exploitation, evidence...all of it.

I don't really care if somebody finishes DaemonCore knowing 500 commands.

Id rather they finish it knowing how to sit in front of something they've never seen before and figure it the fuck out.

Thats hacking.

Anyway. 1,000 downloads.

Fucking wild.

Thanks again guys.

Stay hacking

— Daemoncore

Repeating a lie enough times, even in spotlighted untrusted text, can poison an AI agent's memory, and lead to a total takeover. Note: I gave a talk on this at BSidesLV and a longer one at DEF CON a few weeks ago. This post is the quick summary of that material.

No physical hardware needed: firmware extraction, an AArch64 rehost under qemu + bubblewrap, and the chase that led to two separate CVEs on the same device. full trail — including the chains that went nowhere.

I need a reality check.

I am working on emulating a BLE device in motion from a stationary esp32. beacon frames are only sent when the inverse sq curve matches the attenuation steps rounded to the nearest timing frame.

the goal is to emulate a device in motion from a stationary point. the assumption is that the receive would interpret periods where no packets are received as normal loss, but the RSSI would indicate a device moving in and out of range.

The graph represents my layout. the pin points are the intersections, the blue the closest match for the timing. X is time/dist, Y power.

now, would this be a reasonable approach to moving target emulation?