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Offensive security, CTF, defense and privacy — notes by Dominique-Savio SAKOI (Dmod).

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·1 min

Welcome to my blog

Why this blog, and what you'll find here: CTF writeups, offensive and defensive security, privacy.

#blog#cybersecurity
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·1 minTIL

TIL: an IP address can be written as a single number

23.94.145.93 and 392073565 point to the same machine. Malware uses this to slip past URL filters.

#til#network#malware
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·5 min

I secured my own domain: from an F to an A+

HTTP headers, HSTS, a strict CSP, DNSSEC, CAA, DMARC: the logbook of hardening sakoi-cyber.me, and what each setting actually protects.

#defense#web#hardening#privacy
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·6 min

Anatomy of a ClickFix campaign: when the victim launches the malware

Analysis of a real infection chain where no vulnerability is exploited: the user pastes the command themselves. From a fake CAPTCHA to a Chrome key stealer, eight layers built to blind each defense one by one.

#analysis#malware#reverse#defense#clickfix
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·4 minInside Hydra

Inside Hydra, episode 1: detecting an attack never seen before

How Neuro-Sentinel, Hydra's defensive core, spots an intrusion it has no signature for — by first learning what a healthy network looks like.

#hydra#defense#ai#detection#network
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·4 min

My privacy stack, tool by tool

The tools I use every day to reduce what I expose, encrypt what I keep, and never hand a service more than it needs — with the reasoning behind each choice.

#privacy#encryption#tools
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·4 min

Writeup: JWT algorithm confusion (RS256 → HS256)

How to turn a public key — meant to be shared — into a signing key, and forge an admin token. A classic bug that's still very much alive.

#ctf#web#crypto#jwt
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