Punch Card Hacking – Exploring a Mainframe Attack Vector

Punhc Card

Mainframes are the unseen workhorses that carry the load for many services we use on a daily basis: Withdrawing money from an ATM, credit card payments, and airline reservations to name just a few of the high volume workloads that are primarily handled by mainframes. For those that like to see figures to support this … Continue reading Punch Card Hacking – Exploring a Mainframe Attack Vector

Anatomy and Disruption of Metasploit Shellcode

In April 2021 we went through the anatomy of a Cobalt Strike stager and how some of its signature evasion techniques ended up being ineffective against detection technologies. In this blog post we will go one level deeper and focus on Metasploit, an often-used framework interoperable with Cobalt Strike. Throughout this blog post we will … Continue reading Anatomy and Disruption of Metasploit Shellcode