Cyber security, digital forensics and threat research. Posts are written on Medium and mirrored here.
Look at the two addresses above. Can you spot the difference? If you said “they’re the same”, you failed the test. One is the real site, the other an attacker’s trap, and telling them apart by eye is almost impossible.
Almost every program we use daily calls dozens, maybe hundreds, of DLLs in the background. Much of the operating system's and applications' critical functionality rests on these small files. But can these unremarkable files become a doorway to full system compromise in the wrong hands?
In the cybersecurity world, some advanced persistent threats (APTs) leak data, crash systems, and leave traces behind. But some are silent — roaming a network undetected for months without a single alarm, exfiltrating data and observing their target's behavior.
AI technologies draw more interest every day. Some use them for homework, some for recipes, some to make money at work. As this interest grows, so does the number of people weaponizing it against others.