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September 3, 2026
The RAE Dictionary API: An Open Secret Hidden in Plain Sight

How I reverse-engineered the Spanish Royal Academy's Android app and found an API used by dozens of projects, with hardcoded credentials that have been public for years.

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August 20, 2026
Analysis of the Ledger Physical Mail Phishing Scam (Quishing)

An in-depth teardown of a postal phishing campaign targeting Ledger hardware wallet users with fake 'Quantum Resistance' upgrades, QR redirection chains, Cloudflare geo-fencing, and seed phrase exfiltration.

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August 13, 2026
What Light Yagami teaches you about OPSEC

Light Yagami runs a worldwide killing operation with a weapon that leaves no trace, and he still gets caught. His failures are the same ones most people make with their phone, their routine, their devices and the people they trust. Eight OPSEC mistakes, and the lessons for everyday life.

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July 24, 2026
Comprehensive Analysis: Multi-Stage Crypto Wallet Phishing Campaign

This analysis documents a sophisticated multi-stage phishing campaign targeting cryptocurrency wallet users. The attack chain spans from email delivery through credential exfiltration, incorporating TDS (Traffic Direction System) cloaking, BIP39 cryptographic validation, and social engineering across five sequential stages.

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July 17, 2026
Fake Interview Scams - Malware Execution via VSCode and Express App

This blog post explores a fake tech interview scam that infects victims' machines through a malicious GitHub repository. The infection occurs via Visual Studio Code's `.vscode` folder and a legitimate-looking Express app, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code and steal sensitive information.

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July 11, 2026
PhaaS research: a Ledger seed phishing campaign from a Google ad

Notes on an active crypto phishing campaign impersonating Ledger — a verified Google advertiser buying "ledger" ads pointing at a typosquat that walks you through a fake firmware update and harvests your recovery phrase.

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July 8, 2026
Diving into a non documented WhatsApp anti-censorship feature

I discovered a non documented anti-censorship feature in WhatsApp that allows users to bypass censorship in certain countries.

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June 9, 2026
PhaaS in the Wild: Dissecting the TCC Payment Page Phishing Kit

Full technical breakdown of an active Phishing-as-a-Service kit targeting Colombian banking customers. The kit impersonates logistics company TCC, runs a real-time card keylogger via an obfuscated runtime, routes victims by BIN prefix, and exfiltrates data through postMessage to a Chinese-built multi-tenant C2 platform at tcc-ayv.cc.

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June 9, 2026
Terminal Makeover: From Boring to Beautiful 🎨

Your terminal is where you live as a dev. This guide turns that bland default setup into something you'll actually want to open — autocompletion, syntax highlighting, a clean prompt, and pro tools included.

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April 4, 2025
Malware Analysis: Persistence, Obfuscation & Steganography

A deep dive into a malware sample hiding inside a fake PDF — emoji-obfuscated batch scripts, C2 communication, and payloads embedded in JPEGs using steganography.

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