Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...

Abstract: In order to create better shellcode for offensive cybersecurity, this study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) such as Mistral and Llama. It focuses on LLM optimizations to ...

For most websites, the homepage represents your brand’s first interaction with your audience on your website. As the catch-all landing page where people will be sent by default, your homepage needs to ...

Abstract: An important method to detect intrusion is to identify attack codes such as shellcode. However, the popular simulation methods seriously slow down the efficiency, while static detection ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

BLACK HAT ASIA – Singapore – Windows fibers, little-known components of Windows OS, represent a largely undocumented code-execution pathway that exists exclusively in user mode — and is therefore ...

TL;DR: Write a C program that calls libc functions, compile it to a shellcode, load it in memory. Featuring function scraping from ELF as "procedure linkage", code & compilation tricks, and more. If ...

Destiny 2 Polymorphic Shellcode is a currency added in the Lightfall expansion that's required to enter and complete the Partition activity in Neomuna. Partition is a weekly activity that can reward ...

I've been playing video games almost my entire life, with a particular preference for RPGs, Strategy Games, and 3D Platformers. When I'm not writing or gaming, I usually work on my own game projects ...