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AI-Powered DEI Web Accessibility Hackathon 2025: Technical Innovations and Real-World Impact
/in General NewsFollowing the success of the Neuro Nostalgia Hackathon that closed out in 2024, Hackathon Raptors has completed its…
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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Router Hacks, PyPI Attacks, New Ransomware Decryptor, and More
/in General NewsFrom sophisticated nation-state campaigns to stealthy malware lurking in unexpected places, this week’s cybersecurity landscape is a reminder that attackers are always evolving. Advanced threat groups are exploiting outdated hardware, abusing legitimate tools for financial fraud, and finding new ways to bypass security defenses. Meanwhile, supply chain threats are on the rise, with open-source
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GitHub Action Compromise Puts CI/CD Secrets at Risk in Over 23,000 Repositories
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an incident in which the popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised to leak secrets from repositories using the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow.
The incident involved the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action, which is used in over 23,000 repositories. It’s used to track and retrieve all
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UK’s internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM
/in General NewsAs duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom, said it has launched a new enforcement program focused on online storage and file-sharing services. The regulator said its evidence shows that file-sharing and file-storage services are “particularly susceptible” to being used for […]
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Popular GitHub Action Targeted in Supply Chain Attack
/in General NewsThe tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action, which is used in 23,000 repositories, has been targeted in a supply chain attack.
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European Cyber Report 2025: 137% more DDoS attacks than last year – what companies need to know
/in General NewsFrankfurt am Main, Germany, 17th March 2025, CyberNewsWire
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European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
/in General NewsA broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure and services to bolster the bloc’s economic prospects, resilience, and security in increasingly fraught geopolitical times. In an open letter to European Commission president, Ursula von der […]
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SecjuiceCON 2025
/in General NewsAfter a decade of publishing your favorite infosec articles, we are very proud to announce SecjuiceCON 2025, our very first virtual conference. The first Secjuice conference is an online event for infosec and osint industry insiders, and we’d love for you to talk to our audience about your wisdom and learnings.
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HTB Busqueda Walkthrough
/in General NewsAs usual, a nice and simple BOX with two relatively simple exploits even for beginners. Let’s go.
The nmap scan:
port 80 responds to the “searcher.htb” domain. Put it in the /etc/hosts file.
It seems to be a search engine collector.
Wappalyzer reports python (3.10.6) and flask (2.1.2) technology.
The portal is based on version 2.4.0 of an open-source project called Searchor with the repository on git
Searching for exploits I found this:
Intercepting the calls using BurpSuite, I retrieve the request:
Let’s try to investigate the code in the repository, crossing the information of the eval reported in the vulnerability and the request towards the /search routing. Download the 2.4.0 version of the source code (https://github.com/ArjunSharda/Searchor/releases/tag/v2.4.0).
Search the POST method…
…and the Engine class:
Apparently, you can run some python code, it will be easier using the last parameter (open). Sniffing the request setting the “Auto redirect” check with BurpSuite…
It seems that the backend code only checks for the presence of the parameter, so I can’t take advantage of the “auto_redirect” parameter, I’ll have to use the “query” parameter. The purpose is to pass a value such that a command is executed in addition to the original one. Starting from the construction of the original string, then
we have to close the string at the point of the query parameter. Just pass the value as the query value
This will terminate the string with the single quote, close the search command with the closing parenthesis, and comment out everything that follows.
Since the search of the engine class accepts the remaining parameters with default values, there will be no problems, as the search method in this case will be launched specifying only the first parameter.
But now I have to try to inject the code I want to execute, but failing to concatenate another string, I take advantage of a trick that allows me to execute some code through the use of the format of a string. The output of the search command of the Engine class still returns a string, on which I can perform a format. Since there are no variable markers, the format will have no effect, but it will still allow me to execute some code. As usual, to test, I’ll run a curl to my listening machine to see if the injection was successful. The query parameter will then look something like this:
By replacing the parameter on the BurpSuite and launching the request, the surprise is not long in coming.
Perfect, it works, let’s convert curl to a reverse shell and activate our listener.
The BurpSuite will do the rest!
Navigate to the home folder and let’s find out he’s the user with the flag.
Spawned a tty shell to test the sudo command but this user cannot launch sudo without a password. So, launch linpeas as usual, without leaving any trace.
Download linpeas and start the php native web server.
Then start the netcat listener that will receive the scan output.
And finally, launch the attack on the remote machine.
Let the scan complete (check your netcat session).
linpeas output, interesting poits
Found an additional domain (gitea.searcher.htb), insert it on the /etc/hosts file and try to navigate.
Gitea Version: 1.18.0+rc1
Searching for some exploit, I find something (even an RCE), but be being authenticated. After some more searching, I can’t find anything of interest, so, convinced that the next clue has something to do with git anyway, I search the repositories available in this BOX.
After searching the repository a bit, without much success, and not knowing exactly how to proceed, I start searching online and come across an interesting article.
It seems that I have found what I was looking for and finally can access the gitea portal. So, I can come back on one of the previous exploits that need credentials.
Unfortunately I can’t even create a new repository. Anyway, I can connect via ssh using the password.
Even though I can run it, I can’t read it.
So, try to execute.
I’ll probably have to use the docker command to elevate the privileges, but in the meantime let’s collect as much information as possible about the running containers as well.
And the environment variables section is really cool.
Obviously, the environment section of the second container is equally attractive.
Passwords don’t seem, in any case, to be useful. Since the script appeared to use the docker command anyway, I tried hard to exploit that, trying passing additional commands and injecting alternative commands, but without success. Then I took a look at the folder where the script is located and found a couple of interesting clues.
Inside the folder is a script named after the third argument that takes the original script and there appears to be a git repository. However, I don’t have permission to read the files inside, but let’s try to proceed on this new path.
The git repository route is to be abandoned; the script file remains.
Oh oh… the command that didn’t work before now seems to execute correctly, so it runs a script with that name contained in the folder you are in!
And after a few simple tries, we have our root flag!
That’s all folks, as usual, see you at the next BOX, have an excellent hacking (in legal), bye.
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HTB Escape Walkthrough
/in General NewsA very particular windows machine, in which I got stuck, stubbornly looking for an exploit which later turned out to be a simple clue left in plain sight that allowed a very trivial privesc. More challenging, but almost standard, the second privec which then led me to the desired root flag.
Let’s start with the nmap scan.
As usual, there are an infinite number of ports open on a windows machine and not happy, let’s also take a look at the UDP ports.
Little steal, thank goodness! Ok, let’s analyze one port at a time!
53 – DNS, 88 – kerberos, 135, 593 – RPC, 139, 445 – SMB, 464
Nothing about this set, unless I’ve missed something.
139, 445 – SMB
The enum4linux tool doesn’t enumerate anything in particular, let’s try a manual approach.
I’m able to connect using the rpcclient tool (rpcclient -U “” -N 10.10.11.202), but investigating this would take too much time, I’ll mark it as an activity to come back to if I can’t find anything else and move on.
The SAMBA client shows, among the classic windows shares, a “Public” folder that could be interesting, let’s take a look.
Give a look at the pdf file.
Well, a good domain to insert into my /etc/hosts; go ahead.
389 (636, 3268, 3269) – LDAP
As for LDAP, I tried to navigate the structure using phpLDAPAdmin as usual, but without success.
1433 – SQL Server
And for the uninitiated, port 1433 is the one reserved for SQL Server. There will be a lot of work here; let’s work.
The Metasploit Framework is full of attacks for SQL Server… and I think I’ve tried a lot of them.
I omitted some of the exploits I ran and also omitted some sections of the information returned by the scans, so as not to take up too much reading time.
But let’s connect to the SQL Server instance and investigate the contents of the DBs.
Besides the SQL Server version which may come in handy to identify some specific exploit, the DB doesn’t seem to contain many schemas and tables. I tried some exciting system queries, but most of them gave “permission denied“. I, therefore, rely on the now official guide for identifying vulnerabilities.
Inside the guide, we find an interesting attack, which is worth trying.
The concept behind this attack is to force the SQL Server to authenticate to a fake server that will capture the unsuspecting service’s credentials.
So, activate our responder…
…let’s take advantage of one of the Metasploit Framework exploits…
…and wait for the attacked service to fall into the trap.
We now have a NetNTLM hash that we can safely hashcat after identifying the corresponding value of the specific hash (5600).
And after some waiting and patience, the password comes out. What better tool to use than Evil-WinRM?
Obviously, this user can’t do much. You need a winPEAS session. We load the scanner on the BOX through the features made available by Evil-WinRM…
…and start it, saving the result so as not to lose it.
Let’s take it home the same way and analyze it.
winpeas
Below is the information extracted from the winPEAS scan that I deemed worthy of note.
Obviously, in addition to some interesting files, the possible privileges available to the user are highlighted (to verify actual vulnerabilities) and the WSUS windows update service (often used precisely for the elevation of privileges).
Let’s try to understand if the WSUS is really vulnerable.
Already from the windows registry keys, there doesn’t seem to be any hope.
Even on the privileges front, nothing particularly attractive seems to be highlighted, the masterkey of the user Ryan would be needed, but at the moment it does not seem to be available.
Let’s try some other tools, for example, PrivescCheck.
PrivescCheck output
Also in this case I report only the interesting and noteworthy things.
We get to a point where the use of classic windows tools becomes essential, let’s try bloodhound.
I collect the necessary information…
…and analyze the result.
I use the containerized version, so wait for the availability of the Neo4j.
When logged in, upload the collected data (directly zip file).
Now, on the search box, search for the user you pawn: sql_svc.
Select it and mark the user as owned.
Search for the Ryan user account and select it, right-click and chose “shortest path from owned to here“
Well, the path is long enough, but the tool crashes as soon as you try to investigate the third link. Nonetheless, the information from previous nodes highlights standard attacks that I’ve faced in the past. Let’s try them quickly.
Again, however, nothing seems to emerge. The commands you run seem to throw an error while generating the security object; another hole in the water.
I’m starting to feel this dead end approaching, but I still have some resources, let’s try some exploits suggester for Windows.
Once again blocked even before starting. Next another.
Exhausted and out of ideas, I abandon my goal for a few days (needless to tell us, when you slam too much on the same apparently unsolvable problem, disconnect… let your mind refresh, empty and face the problem again).
So I go back to the machine after a few days and with the memories of all the attempts tried up to that moment, I go back to having a look at the resources available from the shell. I then find a folder on the root containing what appears to be the SQL Server installation package and a couple of other directories one of which contains a backup file.
I start sifting through the log file and find two consecutive failed accesses within a few…. hundredths of a second (it seems a bit exaggerated to me, but we’ll stick to the clues).
All we have to do is reconnect with Evil-WinRM using the new credentials.
And the first flag is captured. Ok, at this point the steps repeat as before. Unfortunately also in this case, nothing with winPEAS, nothing with BloodHound, nothing with PowerScript and Rubeus; another dead end.
As exhausted, I rely on the suggestions of the forum and thus discover a new (for me) interesting tool: “just download the Certify.exe“.
It looks really interesting, let’s see what comes out.
As in the example given in the git repository documentation, our user also seems to be enabled for the ManageCA privilege (but what a coincidence). Go on.
Create the pfx key from the recovered certificate.
And we ask for the resolution of the TGT key.
There are two different ways to obtain the hash password (that I know), using ccache…
…or generating it from Rubeus itself; let me use the simplest method.
And we run straight to the root flag without delay, once again exploiting the potential of Evil-WinRM.
And once again… that’s all folks, I sweated for a few days, but in the end, I managed to overcome every obstacle (even the most trivial ones, next time, look around before proceeding down the most impervious routes). For the moment, goodbye, but I’ll wait for you at the next BOX, happy hacking everyone!
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