In this post, we’re going to configure an environment that will support a locally-hosted LLM to aid in reverse engineering and binaries. For this, we’ll be using: Virtualbox Ollama with a cor...

Starting Point I’ve been interested in pursuing Anti-Cheat (AC) as a research area and - to that end - I’ve been wanting to setup a virtualized environment to facilitate my R&D efforts. Howeve...

Starting Point I’ve recently become really interested in anti-cheat within video games. As someone who both works in and teaches cybersecurity, it strikes me as bearing a lot of similarities with ...

Starting Point At one point or another, most people looking to carve out a career in cybersecurity look to figure out whether or not they need to go to university for a degree (and if so, what kin...

Prologue These are my writeups of a few of the reverse engineering problems I tackled during this year’s HacktheBox Cyber Apocalypse 2025 CTF. Unfortunately, I could only allocate a few hours in t...

This ended up being a good introductory exercise to injecting shellcode. Rated “Very Easy” by Hack The Box, this pwn binary, this challenge took only a few minutes to exploit having got back into t...

If you’re interested in working in cybersecurity, you’ve probably seen at some point or another the plethora of articles, blogs, videos, etc. suggesting that there is a growing gap in the cybersecu...

HTB - Space Pirate: Going Deeper This was a pretty standard buffer overflow exercise. Rated “Very Easy” by Hack The Box, this pwn binary was a pretty cut-and-dry exercise (with the only real point...

This binary exploitation challenge was another exercise in performing a close reading of the source code. Rated “Very Easy” by Hack The Box, this pwn binary took the shortest amount of time relativ...

HTB - El Teteo This was a delightful dip back into the domain of shellcode. Rated “Very Easy” by Hack The Box, this pwn binary could have taken a few hours to solve, but took me a few days to full...