A blog about cybersecurity by Cybix AB

Writeup for the easy ranked Hack The Boo CTF challenge Pinata


Recon It’s october and Cybersecurity awareness month and a lot of events are going on in the Cybersecurity arena. We found out about Hack The Boo CTF that goes on in parallell with Huntress CTF. I was already heavily invested in that one but what can be more fun than one CTF? Maybe two at the same time!! :) This is how the CTF is described: Are you afraid of the dark?…
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Exploiting CVE-2023-38831 with my bare hands


This time I thought we should take look at a new CVE and dig in to some of it’s inner workings. I will try to show how simple it is to exploit as soon as there are publicly known details. The question here is if it was more dangerous as a zero day or is it more dangereous now when there are free PoC:s for everybody to use? This is what I will be trying to do:…
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Writeup for the medium ranked THM room Obscure


The sun is shining outside. But there’s always a few hours to spend on what you really like. I have been competing hard at Hack The Box for a few years. Just after I made it to the magic count of 100 hacked boxes I also reached number one on the Swedish chart. I tried to keep that position for a while but came to the insight that I keept doing stuff that did not further enhance my knowledge, just keeping my position in a chart.…
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Writeup for the medium ranked HTB box Bagel


This writeup describes how we approached the box Bagel from Hack The Box (https://www.hackthebox.eu). The box is based on Linux and it is ranked medium. Tools and techniques used in this hack are Nmap, Dirb, Firefox, Curl, C# .net and JSon. As i mentioned in previous writeup my style is to describe how I was thinking during the attack. My personal opinion is that I learn from analysing my process over and over again, and you learn more from understanding the process than just following a guide.…
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