AXaxiomdata316·Dec 24, 2019Submission
A collection of various lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers
112 points · Open discussionHack-with-Github
Awesome-Hacking
Security & Privacy2016–2019
Hack-with-Github / Awesome-Hacking
Awesome-Hacking
A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers
11Distinct people
12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
125.4KGitHub stars
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What it is
A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers
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Observed mentions: 2016-11-17 04:05:34 UTC to 2019-12-24 16:30:33 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesStatically linked binaries aren’t exactly a “thing” on Windows... https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2070/... It appears to patch the SSDT table to intercept system calls to the kernel, and based on forum thread titles, has been caught by PatchGuard in Windows before, but I haven’t investigated myself.
From what I can tell, once a privileged process like a kernel driver, starts messing with memory it doesn’t own, like SSDT tables and loaded user-land DLLs, well, game’s over as far as system integrity’s concerned. PatchGuard does integrity checking, but I presume given how common it is, there are known ways to fool it or disable it, perhaps by poisoning whatever it uses to check the SSDT memory.
Interesting variations on this technique might be https://github.com/tandasat/DdiMon and https://github.com/tandasat/SimpleSvm
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In terms of defense, there’s https://github.com/IgorKorkin/MemoryRanger
And for an organized list of far too many examples for me to feel safe, there’s https://github.com/ExpLife0011/awesome-windows-kernel-securi... (Note: over half of the links I clicked at random had Chinese github commit text or readmes, presumably the list author is either searching Github by function calls or understands Chinese...) Less organized for obvious reasons, but this list of 199 starred projects might also be worth a look https://github.com/dmaynor?tab=stars which in turn pointed me to https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
And if you like this, you’ll probably also like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481598
Are you seriously entertaining the idea that Github should pour resources into developing a SSN detection pipeline?
Why don't they also flag repositories with lots of names, those are PII. Too many addresses? That's a red flag.
Why would you even for a second entertain this nonsense? Non-technical people who think this:
https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
is a smoking gun to prove Github as a company is supporting hackers are the ones putting forth this idea, no one with any technical knowledge should come close to supporting this.
In GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach‘The lawsuit also makes a bold claim that "GitHub actively encourages (at least) friendly hacking." It then links to a GitHub repository named "Awesome Hacking.”[0]’
Oh brother.
[0] https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
In GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach