Needles at Scale: LLM-Assisted Target Selection for Windows Vulnerability Research

The attack surface of a modern operating system is a haystack: thousands of signed binaries and millions of functions, almost none relevant to any given vulnerability. A human analyst or an LLM agent must pick the function worth reading before analyzing it. At whole-OS scope, this target selectio...

Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware - The BYOVD Perspective

1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware they were developed for. This work was motivated by driver-oriented vulnerability research and the need to evaluate the exploitability of...

Breaking things to keep them safe with Philippe Laulheret

In the latest Humans of Talos, Amy sits down with Senior Vulnerability Researcher Philippe Laulheret to demystify the world of ethical hacking. Philippe shares his unique journey from French engineering school to the front lines of cybersecurity, explaining how his lifelong love for solving puzzl...

security-skills

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Mythos

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ethical-hacking-ctf

🔐 Ethical Hacking CTF Writeup Coventry University — 7072SC...

recon2exploit

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cb - Binary Analysis Toolkit for macOS/iOS Security Research...

Zero Day Quest 2026: $2.3 million awarded for vulnerability research

Protecting customers is at the core of Zero Day Quest. During the 2026 live hacking event, Microsoft partnered with the global security research community, representing more than 20 countries and a wide range of professional backgrounds, from high school students to college professors. Together,...

The Increasing Role of AI in Vulnerability Research

At Wordfence, we run a bug bounty program that pays out mid-six figures per year to researchers in bug bounties for WordPress related vulnerabilities. Funding this research helps us improve security for the WordPress community overall, and helps us secure our customers by rolling out protection f...

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Exploit for Classic Buffer Overflow in Freefloat Freefloat_Ftp_Server

CVE-2025-5548 Security research and reprod...

📄 WordPress AI Engine 3.1.3 Mass Enumeration

This advisory documents a fully automated PHP-based exploitation framework designed to perform mass enumeration, plugin detection, token extraction, and automated account creation targeting vulnerable WordPress MCP-related REST API endpoints...

Abi-smuggling-exploit

Web3 Security Research Portfolio A collection of smart contra...

📄 n8n Workflow Automation Remote Configuration / Admin Data Extraction

This Metasploit module exploits multiple vulnerabilities in n8n workflow automation tool. It leverages a file read vulnerability to steal encryption keys and database, then uses stolen credentials to authenticate and execute arbitrary commands via the Execute Command node...

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Ryan Liles, master of technical diplomacy

Cisco Talos is back with another inside look at the people who keep the internet safe. This time, Amy chats with Ryan Liles, who bridges the gap between Cisco's product teams and the third-party testing labs that put Cisco products through their paces. Ryan pulls back the curtain on the delicate...

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How Asem Eleraky went from a shared family PC to finding critical vulnerabilities

In the world of vulnerability research, origin stories are rarely linear. For Asem Eleraky, the path to becoming a Microsoft MVR began not in a SOC lab or a university classroom, but with a single family PC and a short daily window to explore his growing interest in cybersecurity...