🧪 METASPLOITABLE LAB SERIESFREE Part of the Metasploitable Lab Series Lab 4 of 10 · 40% complete ⚠️ Authorised Lab Only. This lab exploits a real vulnerability against an intentionally vulnerable target. Run only on your isolated Metasploitable VM on a host-only network. Never run Metasploit modules against any system without explicit written authorisation. Five commands. That's all it takes. From a blank msfconsole to a root shell on Metasploitable in under 60 seconds using the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor. I'm…
Friday, May 1, 2026
Shadow AI Security Risks 2026 — The Unsanctioned AI Epidemic in Enterprise
The legal team had been using ChatGPT for six months before the security team found out. They'd discovered it was dramatically faster for contract summarisation — what took a paralegal four hours took the AI four minutes. They'd been pasting contracts in: client names, deal terms, confidential provisions, everything. The personal free-tier accounts they were using had conversation history enabled, data had been submitted to OpenAI's servers, and they had no idea whether any of it had been used for…
Metasploitable Service Enumeration Lab 2026 — Full Attack Surface Mapping | Hacking Lab 33
🧪 METASPLOITABLE LAB SERIESFREE Part of the Metasploitable Lab Series Lab 3 of 10 · 30% complete ⚠️ Isolated Lab Environment Only. Metasploitable 2 is intentionally vulnerable. Run it only on a host-only network completely isolated from the internet. Every service on this machine is exploitable. Lab 2 gave me 23 open ports. That's a list, not an attack plan. Service enumeration turns the port list into an attack priority matrix — I know which services are running vulnerable versions,…
How to Reverse a Real Android APK in 15 Minutes — Complete Beginner Guide 2026
Every Android APK is a ZIP file containing Java bytecode, resources, and a manifest. Unzip it, decompile it, and you have the developer's source code in a readable form. The hardcoded API key, the debug endpoint, the credentials baked in for "development only" — they're all there. I've found production AWS credentials, Stripe secret keys, and internal admin panel URLs in publicly available apps this way. Here's the exact workflow that takes any APK from download to decompiled source in…
Indirect Prompt Injection 2026 — Web-Delivered Attacks That Hijack AI Without User Input | AI LLM Hacking Course Day 5
🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 5 of 90 · 5.5% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: Indirect prompt injection testing — including document injection, web page injection, and RAG poisoning — must only be performed against systems you have explicit written authorisation to test. The techniques here are for authorised bug bounty programmes with AI scope and sanctioned red team engagements only. SecurityElites.com accepts no liability for misuse. The scariest finding…
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Insecure AI Plugin Architecture Attacks 2026 — When Tools Become Weapons
The most dangerous AI deployment I assess is the one that's been fully approved. The security team signed off on it. It had access to email, calendar, Slack, and the internal document store. Each plugin had been individually reviewed. Each connection had been individually authorised. What they hadn't reviewed was the combination: what an attacker could achieve by using the email plugin to read a malicious message, which injected instructions that used the Slack plugin to exfiltrate data, which used…
AI Code Assistant Backdoor Injection 2026 — When Copilot Writes Malicious Code
Here's the attack story I use when I need to explain AI code backdoors to sceptical engineers. A developer needed an encryption function. They opened GitHub Copilot, described what they wanted, and accepted the suggestion. The code worked. It passed code review. It went to production. Six months later a security audit found it: AES encryption in ECB mode — the mode that produces identical ciphertext for identical plaintext blocks, making patterns in the plaintext visible in the ciphertext. The…
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