Table of contents for August 2024 in Hackercool Magazine

If you have been following recent Issues of our Hackercool Magazine, you should have seen me repeating one thing again and again. That “PowerShell is soon becoming (or has already become) the favorite scripting language of hackers around the world”. Its use in Infection Chains used by Black Hat Hackers around the world and lot of tools being forked into PowerShell is a testimony to this statement. In this month’s Red Team Hacking feature, we bring our readers the power of PowerShell in hacking. Let’s begin. What is PowerShell? PowerShell is a scripting language initially introduced in Windows by Microsoft that can also be used by automate tasks and managing configurations. It also has a command-line shell. Windows PowerShell was first released in November 2006 in Windows XP SP2, Windows…

In this month’s “Vulnerability For Beginners” feature, readers will learn about a vulnerability disclosed recently in Google chrome browser. Not that you don’t know but for article’s sake Google chrome is a browser which is used to view webpages and websites just like any other browser. Released in 2008, it is used by over 3.45 billion users at present and is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux etc. What is the vulnerability? Recently, a high-risk vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7965 has been detected affecting Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. A JavaScript engine takes our JavaScript and executes it. Its CVSS score is 8.8 and it is a severe threat to system’s confidentiality and integrity. The vulnerability is a heap corruption buffer overflow that can be exploited remotely. The vulnerability affects Chrome browser versions…

Hello, ethical hackers. In this month’s What’s New, you will learn about the latest release of Parrot Security OS. To the newbies, Parrot Security OS is a pen testing distro just like Kali Linux. Its latest release, Parrot Security OS 6.1 has been released in June 2024. This article explains what’s new in the latest release of Parrot Security OS. Latest features to be excited about What is a new release of a pen testing distro if it has nothing to do with pen testing tools. The latest release of Parrot Security updated many of its tools to their latest versions. Important among them are SQLmap. 1.8.7 (the latest version provides better SQL injection capabilities). Recently a new release of Wireshark has been released. In this release, Wireshark has also…

Recently, Boyan Milanov, a security researcher from TrailOfBits has developed a new hybrid machine learning (ML) model exploitation technique named Sleepy Pickle. This technique has once again brought focus on the security risks associated with the Pickle format. In this article, readers will get to know everything they have to learn about the Pickle format as an ethical hacker. What is a Pickle? Everyone knows Python is an object-oriented programming language. In python, almost everything is an object. The Pickle format, native to Python is used to serialize and deserialize a Python object structure. This brings us to next question. What is serialization? We have just now learnt that Python is a object oriented programming language. Sometimes (many times), a need arises to convert this object-oriented data into a byte…