Infosec and RE stuff sometimes,talking nonsense the rest.
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throatylava retweeted
Washing the dishes doesn't exercise your brain or deepen your understanding of the problem. Solving technical problem by yourself does. Once you stop practicing, you loose the ability to think certain way, and you won't be good to even supervise the machine or question it. I am all for using LLMs, but let's be honest, promoting is too easy to even be called a skill. If this is our core education, humanity will degrade.
throatylava retweeted
AI is cool and badass. I like it.
No, it's not the end of the world. We can "contain" it.
Now I will rant for a moment about what I dislike about AI.
I strongly dislike when large corporations try to inject AI into every product, essentially forcing us to use AI.
I also strongly dislike when people use AI for every small little thing in their life, such as leaving comments on websites like Xitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. It defeats the entire purpose of leaving a comment on something... you're supposed to share YOUR thoughts, not an AI agents generated string output. It's goofy.
I also strongly dislike the nonsense blabbering of AI propaganda, how it will destroy the world, or how companies need to "contain it", essentially acting as means to corner the AI model market, trying to strip it away from individuals who may want to host it locally. It's a facade of "Only WE can do AI, not YOU", whilst charging absurd fees for usage.
I also dislike AI nerds who try to tell me to use AI to do things I do simply because I enjoy doing them. Yes, maybe an AI agent could reverse engineer faster than me, or code faster than me, but I do it because I enjoy it.
AI is an excellent tool to enhance work flows, or learn (assuming it doesn't hallucinate).
Okay, that's all I want to say about AI for today.
throatylava retweeted
Totally agree, that's why I am planning to do this year's #FlareOn without using AI (unless there is a task where it's specifically required). The competitive side of the challenge may be dead, but we still can choose to have fun. Just like existence of a mountain lift doesn't have to kill the pleasure of climbing.
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There is also a tutorial I wrote about how to make import recovery the most effective: hshrzd.wordpress.com/2025/03… - it also covers finding Original Entry Point (OEP) with the help of #TinyTracer
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Time to time I see #malware unpacking tutorials using #PEsieve and *incorrectly* stating that it doesn't rebuild import table and you need to use external tools to do so. In fact it is just a matter of a commandline argument: /imp - documented on Wiki: github.com/hasherezade/pe-si…
throatylava retweeted
My team at Elastic (Endpoint Protections) are hiring another Senior Security Research Engineer!
If you are an avid Windows Internals and low level security enjoyer, & want to work with the best talent around - take a look! Feel free to drop me a dm!
jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee…
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My research blog about #JSCeal is finally out! It was quite a journey. I hope you will like it! // #V8 #bytecode #malware #deobfuscation
#JSCeal didn't give up its secrets willingly.
Following our #BlackHat2026 talk, we're releasing Breaking the Seal: our research on statically deobfuscating compiled, obfuscated #V8 #malware.
Inside: the methodology, the open-source toolkit, and the malware capabilities recovered along the way.
research.checkpoint.com/2026…
throatylava retweeted
Simple rule: remember that anyone who tells you that it’s better to be ignorant just wants to sabotage you and/or enslave you
throatylava retweeted
The related toolkit: github.com/hasherezade/jsc_d… ; More details on Wiki: github.com/hasherezade/jsc_d…
throatylava retweeted
Thank you, @cursor_ai, for providing free credits to several FFmpeg developers. These credits will support their ongoing work on FFmpeg, including development and code review.
We greatly appreciate Cursor’s support for FFmpeg and its community.
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Compiled #V8 bytecode is still a niche #malware format, but it highlights a broader analysis problem: what happens when a payload falls between established toolchains?
At #BlackHat2026, I’ll walk through the #JSCeal case study and the static deobfuscation toolkit I built to recover readable code.
If you’ll be at #BlackHat, I’d be glad to see you there!
blackhat.com/us-26/briefings…
throatylava retweeted
I've given my blog a slight lick of paint, if you are interested in offensive or defensive cyber engineering, check it out! I talk about malware development, EDR development, Windows Internals, and some misc reversing stuff :))
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throatylava retweeted
remember when 512MB RAM was considered massive?
programmers wrote code like every byte mattered. optimized everything. squeezed performance from nothing.
suddenly nobody cared about efficiency anymore. just throw more RAM at it, problem solved.
now we have 32GB RAM and Slack uses 2GB just to show text messages. Electron apps eat memory like it's free candy.
we got better hardware and built worse software. abundance made us lazy.
throatylava retweeted
New #TinyTracer (4.0) is ready: github.com/hasherezade/tiny_… - refactored for compatibility with the latest PIN - and with some new features!
throatylava retweeted
C is not a low level language
ACM Queue published this in 2018 and people are still arguing about it
the idea is simple C was low level in 1972 when machines like the PDP-11 mapped code almost directly to instructions
modern CPUs are completely different caches branch prediction SIMD out of order execution
the C abstract machine cannot see or control most of that
it cannot see the cache cannot express prefetching cannot directly control vectorization
so performance depends on the compiler being smart enough to optimize
the same argument C developers often criticize in higher level languages
throatylava retweeted
Since quitting weed I’ve noticed better sleep, more confidence, no anxiety, and dramatically improved mental acuity.
It was honestly one of the hardest addictions for me to beat, and looking back, it may have been the biggest net negative in my life. Crazy to say, but it’s true.