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PulseHacking

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From Root to Botnet: How a Compromised Smart TV Becomes an Attacker’s Asset pillolhacking.net/from-root-…
From Root to Botnet: How a Compromised Smart TV Becomes an Attacker’s Asset

From Root to Botnet: How a Compromised Smart TV Becomes an Attacker’s Asset

Excerpt: A rooted TV can quietly become a botnet node, relaying traffic and turning a trusted home connection into attacker-controlled infrastructure.

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Hypercontemporaneity: Living in a Present We Can No Longer Understand pillolhacking.net/hyperconte…
Hypercontemporaneity: Living in a Present We Can No Longer Understand

Hypercontemporaneity: Living in a Present We Can No Longer Understand

We live in an accelerated present where cyber warfare, hacking, and artificial intelligence challenge the categories through which humanity understands itself.

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Bot Farms: The Hidden Machinery Behind Artificial Online Influence pillolhacking.net/bot-farms-…
Bot Farms: The Hidden Machinery Behind Artificial Online Influence

Bot Farms: The Hidden Machinery Behind Artificial Online Influence

Bot farms use automation, fake accounts and coordinated activity to manufacture online popularity, amplify narratives and manipulate how information spreads.

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NightEagle: The APT That Turned Legitimate Tools Into Weapons pillolhacking.net/nighteagle…
NightEagle: The APT That Turned Legitimate Tools Into Weapons

NightEagle: The APT That Turned Legitimate Tools Into Weapons

NightEagle, also known as APT-Q-95, is expanding its cyberespionage operations, combining stolen credentials, Exchange backdoors and legitimate network tools.

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Zero-Click Attacks: When Your Device Can Be Compromised Without a Click pillolhacking.net/zero-click…
Zero-Click Attacks: When Your Device Can Be Compromised Without a Click

Zero-Click Attacks: When Your Device Can Be Compromised Without a Click

Zero-click attacks exploit software automatically, compromising devices without user interaction. Learn how they work, why they matter, and how to reduce risk.

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When Ships Become Targets: The Emerging Maritime Cyber Threat pillolhacking.net/when-ships…
When Ships Become Targets: The Emerging Maritime Cyber Threat

When Ships Become Targets: The Emerging Maritime Cyber Threat

Recent tanker incidents reveal how cyber risks are expanding across maritime infrastructure, while attribution remains uncertain and increasingly intertwined with geopolitics.

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When the America's Cup Yacht Becomes a Cyber Attack Surface pillolhacking.net/when-the-a…
When the America’s Cup Yacht Becomes a Cyber Attack Surface

When the America’s Cup Yacht Becomes a Cyber Attack Surface

As America's Cup yachts become flying cyber-physical systems, their sensors, software, communications and data create a new battlefield for attackers.

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The Hacker Myth: Why Real Cyber Operations Rarely Look Like Movies pillolhacking.net/the-hacker…
The Hacker Myth: Why Real Cyber Operations Rarely Look Like Movies

The Hacker Myth: Why Real Cyber Operations Rarely Look Like Movies

Hacking rarely looks like the movies: real cyber operations rely on preparation, human trust, specialized ecosystems, and the quiet accumulation of access and advantage.

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Strix: A Hands-On Introduction to Agentic Penetration Testing pillolhacking.net/strix-a-ha… #pentest #security #ai
Strix: A Hands-On Introduction to Agentic Penetration Testing

Strix: A Hands-On Introduction to Agentic Penetration Testing

Strix brings autonomous AI agents into penetration testing, combining reconnaissance, exploitation, vulnerability validation, and reporting within a single security workflow.

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The space war is no longer science fiction. The US has confirmed deploying “on-orbit space control weapons” as tensions with China and Russia escalate. The arms race has reached orbit. #SpaceForce #SpaceWarfare pillolhacking.net/space-warf…
Space Warfare, Satellite Apocalypse

Space Warfare, Satellite Apocalypse

Modern warfare increasingly depends on satellites, but anti-satellite weapons risk triggering orbital catastrophe, making cyber and electronic warfare preferable.

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The Ghost and the Shell pillolhacking.net/the-ghost-…
The Ghost and the Shell

The Ghost and the Shell

As AI becomes more autonomous, the real question may not be intelligence itself, but what happens when intelligence gains a body.

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When the Network Becomes the Target: Understanding DDoS Attacks pillolhacking.net/when-the-n…
When the Network Becomes the Target: Understanding DDoS Attacks

When the Network Becomes the Target: Understanding DDoS Attacks

DDoS attacks can cripple online services without breaching systems, exploiting bandwidth, protocols, connections, and infrastructure to overwhelm legitimate access.

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Anatomy of AI Kill Chain Cyber Attacks pillolhacking.net/the-ai-kil…
Anatomy of AI Kill Chain Cyber Attacks

Anatomy of AI Kill Chain Cyber Attacks

Artificial intelligence is transforming every stage of the cyber kill chain, accelerating attacks while challenging defenders to rethink detection, response, and resilience.

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SPECTRE: Inside the Malware Built to Blind the EDR pillolhacking.net/spectre-in…
SPECTRE: Inside the Malware Built to Blind the EDR

SPECTRE: Inside the Malware Built to Blind the EDR

SPECTRE is a cross-platform backdoor combining process injection, credential theft, anti-analysis, BYOVD and kernel-level stealth against Windows and Linux.

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When the Satellites Went Dark: The KA-SAT Cyberattack at the Opening of the Ukraine War pillolhacking.net/when-the-s…
When the Satellites Went Dark: The KA-SAT Cyberattack at the Opening of the Ukraine War

When the Satellites Went Dark: The KA-SAT Cyberattack at the Opening of the Ukraine War

Hours before Russia invaded Ukraine, a cyberattack silently disabled satellite modems, disrupting communications across Europe and testing wartime cyber resilience.

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Poweliks: A Malware Analysis of a Fileless Threat pillolhacking.net/poweliks-a…
Poweliks: A Malware Analysis of a Fileless Threat

Poweliks: A Malware Analysis of a Fileless Threat

Poweliks demonstrated how malware can abandon traditional executables, hiding persistence in the Windows Registry and executing malicious code directly through legitimate system components.

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When Cars Become Botnet Nodes: The New Malware Hiding Inside Connected Vehicles pillolhacking.net/when-cars-…
When Cars Become Botnet Nodes: The New Malware Hiding Inside Connected Vehicles

When Cars Become Botnet Nodes: The New Malware Hiding Inside Connected Vehicles

Connected cars are becoming computers on wheels, and cybercriminals have now found a way to turn their infotainment systems into botnet infrastructure.

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Deep Dive: CoolClient Rootkit pillolhacking.net/deep-dive-… #rootkit #malware
Deep Dive: CoolClient Rootkit

Deep Dive: CoolClient Rootkit

HoneyMyte’s CoolClient evolves into a kernel-level threat, combining DLL sideloading, process injection, persistence and rootkit capabilities for stealthier espionage.

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The Human-AI Battlefield: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing Cyber Warfare pillolhacking.net/the-human-…
The Human-AI Battlefield: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing Cyber Warfare

The Human-AI Battlefield: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing Cyber Warfare

AI agents are moving warfare beyond automation, creating hybrid operations where humans supervise machines that can independently discover, adapt, and attack.

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Passkeys: The Passwordless Key to a Safer Digital Life pillolhacking.net/passkeys-t…
Passkeys: The Passwordless Key to a Safer Digital Life

Passkeys: The Passwordless Key to a Safer Digital Life

There was a time when the password was supposed to be the small, secret key protecting our digital lives. One password for email, another for [...]

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