OSAI: testing AI and learning to work with it
My experience with OffSec AI-300 and the OSAI exam: useful material, challenging but unreliable labs, and what I learned about using AI in my own offensive security workflow.
Pentesting
Cybernetics: persistence and purpose-built tooling
A spoiler-free reflection on clearing Cybernetics, a large multi-domain enterprise AD lab. Not the exploit chains, but the two things that actually got me to the end: the persistence to keep returning to the same problem for the better part of a year, and the habit of building and adapting my own operator tooling to fit the lab instead of forcing the lab to fit off-the-shelf tools.
aura-privesc: Automating Salesforce Lightning Privilege Escalation Testing
After nearly a year of pentesting Salesforce orgs, I built aura-privesc: an open-source scanner that automates Aura/Lightning privilege escalation discovery. It finds exposed objects, tests CRUD permissions, probes Apex controllers, and generates interactive HTML reports with ready-to-use proof-of-concept commands.