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The Lab

Interactive simulations built to accompany each article. Dark web markets, IRC sessions, hardware tools, ransomware screens, phishing emails, social engineering calls - run them in your browser and read the analyst notes alongside.

42 simulations·11 research·8 hardware·8 underground·12 malware/incidents·3 social eng
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Research
Is This a Munition?
1990s crypto export test

Nine artifacts - PGP source, a t-shirt with RSA on it, a 40-bit key. Guess which ones were arms trafficking to export under 1990s law. You will get some wrong, which is the point.

crypto-warsitarfirst-amendment
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Research
Secure Against Whom?
Threat-model picker

Pick an adversary - opportunist, stalker, police, nation-state - and watch which privacy measures actually matter versus which are theatre. 'Secure' means nothing without 'against whom'.

opsecthreat-modelsurveillance
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Research
CVSS Divergence Calculator
Working CVSS 3.1 base scorer

A real CVSS 3.1 calculator loaded with CVE-2025-25249, where NVD says 9.8 and Fortinet says 8.1. Flip attack complexity and watch the severity band cross the line that decides your patch SLA.

cvssfortigatevulnerability
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Research
The OAuth Blind Spot
Why sign-in monitoring missed it

The same CRM theft by three routes - stolen password, stolen cookie, stolen OAuth token - against eight controls. The OAuth route walks past almost all of them, because none of them watch a token that never signs in.

shinyhuntersoauthsaas
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Research
PeopleSoft Intrusion Chain
Zero-day to leak site in 14 days

Step through the ShinyHunters PeopleSoft campaign - MeshCentral dressed as an Azure service, an SSH-spraying bash script, zstd exfiltration - with the detection opportunity at each stage.

shinyhunterspeoplesoftcve-2026-35273
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Research
Two Ways Into the Build
ChainDrop + XCSSET stepper

An npm worm and a macOS infostealer, side by side, with the control that should have caught each stage and why it did not - including valid Sigstore provenance for malicious code.

supply-chainchaindropxcsset
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Research
There Is No C2 To Block
SaaS dead-drop channels

TukTuk's C2 ran over ClickHouse, Supabase, Ably, Dropbox and GitHub Issues. Block each channel and watch it fall through to the next - because every destination is a product your company might pay for.

tuktuketherratc2
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Research
The 44-Hour Intrusion
Bing search to domain-wide Akira

Fifteen stages from a poisoned search result to encryption, with the actual command run at each step, the MITRE technique, and the detection chance that existed at that moment. Living-off-the-land stages marked.

akirabumblebeeliving-off-the-land
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Research
EchoLeak Bypass Chain
Zero-click Copilot prompt injection

How CVE-2025-32711 chained four separate defences into a zero-click data exfiltration against M365 Copilot. Each defeated control, in order.

echoleakprompt-injectioncopilot
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Research
HASSH Fingerprint Explorer
Testing a dead IOC

A HASSH fingerprint published for the mdrfckr botnet in 2022, tested against 632 implants in a 2026 honeypot corpus - where it matches zero. Explore how the fingerprint drifted and why.

hasshioc-decayhoneypot
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Research
SSH Recon Campaign Timeline
Five addresses, this server's own name

1,976 login attempts from five coordinated addresses hunting this honeypot's own usernames, drawn straight from the raw Cowrie logs. Original data that exists nowhere else.

honeypotcowriereconnaissance
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Malware
WannaCry Ransom Screen
Ransomware recreation

Interactive recreation of the WannaCry ransom note. Countdown timer, BTC payment address, decryptor UI. Built from documented samples.

ransomwarewannacrynsa
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Underground
Silk Road Marketplace
Dark web market simulation

Browse the Silk Road marketplace circa 2013. Listings, vendor ratings, escrow system, Tor hidden service aesthetic.

silkroaddarknettor
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Underground
#antisec IRC Channel
mIRC circa 2011

Live IRC session in the #antisec channel. Sabu, Topiary, tFlow, Kayla - type commands and get responses. Classic Windows gray UI.

lulzsecanonymousirc
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Underground
ShadowCrew Forum
phpBB carding forum circa 2002

Navigate the original carding forum that invented modern cybercrime. Browse categories, read threads, see the vendor reputation system.

shadowcrewcardingforum
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Underground
AlphaBay Market
Dark market circa 2016

The largest dark web market at its peak. Browse listings, vendor ratings, BTC prices. Seizure banner included.

alphabaydarknetalphabay
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Underground
COM Group Chat
Telegram coordination group

Inside a COM threat actor Telegram group. SIM swap coordination, social engineering tips, target sharing.

comtelegramscattered-spider
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Social Eng
Apple ID Phishing Email
Analyst mode: click to reveal IOCs

Recreation of the Ryan Collins phishing email. Toggle analyst mode to highlight every indicator - sender domain, fake urgency, malicious link.

phishingappleicloud
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Underground
OPSEC Case Files
Evidence board

Click-through evidence board for Sabu, DPR, Alpha02, Pompompurin, IntelBroker, Brett Johnson. The mistake, the context, the consequence.

opsecsabudpr
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Social Eng
SIM Swap Call
Step-through social engineering

A real SIM swap social engineering call, exchange by exchange. Toggle analyst notes to see what each step exploits and where the data came from.

sim-swapsocial-engineeringcarrier
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Hardware
Flipper Zero
Full OLED UI simulator

Full Flipper Zero OLED interface simulation. Sub-GHz scanning, NFC reading, BadUSB payload execution, IR learning. With analyst panel.

flipper-zerosub-ghznfc
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Hardware
HackRF Spectrum Analyzer
Live waterfall display

Animated waterfall spectrum across FM, 433 MHz ISM, ADS-B aircraft, pager networks, and GSM. Click signals to see what's being broadcast.

hackrfsdrspectrum
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Hardware
USB Rubber Ducky
HID injection simulator

Plug the Ducky into a simulated target. Watch DuckyScript execute keystroke by keystroke. Three payloads: WiFi dump, reverse shell, persistence.

rubber-duckyhidbadusb
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Hardware
Pwnagotchi
AI WiFi handshake harvester

Watch the AI hunt WPA2 networks, send deauth frames, and capture handshakes. Pixelated face changes mood. Live console log.

pwnagotchiwpa2deauth
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Hardware
WiFi Pineapple
Evil twin + captive portal

Full WiFi Pineapple attack workflow: scan for APs, clone a target SSID, deauth clients, deploy captive portal, harvest credentials.

pineappleevil-twincaptive-portal
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Malware
Stuxnet PLC Sabotage
First cyberweapon against infrastructure

Deploy Stuxnet against Natanz enrichment facility. Watch centrifuge RPMs go haywire while SCADA shows nominal readings. Compare real vs spoofed feeds.

stuxnetiransiemens
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Malware
Mirai Botnet
IoT DDoS - 600,000 bots

Watch Mirai scan IPv4 space for default-credential IoT cameras and routers, build a botnet, then launch a DDoS attack against real targets.

miraibotnetiot
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Malware
NotPetya Wiper
MEDoc supply chain - $10B destruction

Step through the NotPetya attack: MEDoc supply chain infection, EternalBlue propagation, Mimikatz credential theft, MBR overwrite, and the fake ransom screen.

notpetyasandwormgru
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Malware
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)
CVSS 10.0 - every Java app

Fire JNDI injection payloads at a vulnerable Log4j server. Watch the DNS callback, LDAP referral, class loading, and RCE play out step by step.

log4shelllog4jjndi
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Malware
Colonial Pipeline
DarkSide ransomware - East Coast fuel crisis

Network map showing DarkSide's spread through Colonial's IT network. Ransom note, the $4.4M Bitcoin negotiation, and the aftermath timeline.

colonialdarksideransomware
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Malware
SolarWinds / SUNBURST
Supply chain attack - 18,000 victims

Step through the SUNBURST supply chain attack: build system injection, 18,000-org distribution, 9-month dormancy, Golden SAML pivot to cloud, and detection by FireEye.

solarwindssunburstsupply-chain
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Hardware
O.MG Cable
Weaponized USB cable with WiFi payload delivery

A USB-C cable with an embedded ESP8266 WiFi chip. Operator connects remotely, selects a DuckyScript payload, and triggers HID injection over WiFi. Target sees a normal cable.

omg-cablehidbadusb
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Hardware
Proxmark3 RFID Cloner
HID, MIFARE, EM410x attacks

Scan real RFID/NFC card types - HID Prox, EM410x, MIFARE Classic, iCLASS. Watch the CRYPTO1 attack crack sectors, clone the card, then emulate against a reader.

proxmark3rfidnfc
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Underground
Shodan: Internet Exposure Scanner
ICS, medical, cameras, RDP - everything exposed

Browse simulated Shodan search results: exposed Siemens S7 PLCs, hospital HL7 interfaces, IP cameras with default creds, and RDP with BlueKeep. Click any result to see the banner and CVEs.

shodanosintics
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Underground
BreachForums
Underground data market - 2022-2025

Browse the BreachForums interface circa 2024. Databases, combolists, exploits, malware source code, and services. Simulated posts from real threat actor patterns. Toggle analyst mode for context on each category.

breachforumsdata-breachcombolist
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Malware
Ransomware Negotiation Portal
Victim-side negotiation with ransomware operators

The dark web negotiation portal ransomware victims are directed to. Choose your response: ask the price, request an extension, or refuse to pay. Each path shows the operator's counter and analyst notes on the negotiation tactics being used.

ransomwarenegotiationdouble-extortion
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Malware
Stack Buffer Overflow
strcpy, EIP control, NOP sled

Step-through visualization of a classic stack buffer overflow. Watch input spill past a 32-byte buffer, overwrite saved EBP and return address, and redirect EIP into attacker shellcode. Step or auto-play through all 6 phases.

buffer-overflowmemory-corruptionexploit
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Malware
SQL Injection Lab
Classic auth bypass, UNION dump, blind probe

Interactive SQL injection playground. Five payload types: auth bypass, comment truncation, UNION data exfiltration, boolean blind probe, and stacked DROP (blocked). Watch queries execute and see exactly what the database returns.

sql-injectionowaspunion-select
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Malware
DNS Tunneling C2
Command and control hidden in DNS queries

Watch malware exfiltrate data through DNS queries that blend with legitimate traffic. Base32-encoded data hidden in subdomain labels, commands received in TXT responses. Toggle analyst mode to see why this evades most firewalls.

dnstunnelingc2
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Malware
Cobalt Strike Team Server
Live C2 beacon simulation

Three active beacons calling home to a Cobalt Strike team server. Run real commands (whoami, hashdump, lateral movement), watch the C2 traffic, and toggle analyst mode for JARM fingerprinting and detection signatures.

cobalt-strikec2beacon
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Social Eng
Vishing Call
IT helpdesk social engineering

Annotated replay of a Scattered Spider-style IT helpdesk vishing call. Seven distinct social engineering techniques, from pretexting to complicity anchoring.

vishingsocial-engineeringhelpdesk
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Hardware
Multi-OS Terminal
Kali · Windows · macOS · Cisco IOS

Interactive terminal simulator across six operating systems: Kali Linux, Windows CMD, PowerShell, macOS, Busybox, and Cisco IOS. Real command behaviour, realistic output.

terminalkaliwindows
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Malware Family Database

Documented malware families - tracked, analyzed, and catalogued from public threat intelligence and independent analysis.

12Total Families
8Active
2Critical
3Monitored
Type:|Severity:|Status:
FamilyTypePlatformSeverityStatusLast SeenTags
>LummaStealerWindows
Critical
Active2025-06
#maas#credential-theft#crypto+1
>RedLineStealerWindows
High
Active2025-05
#stealer#credential-theft#underground
>AsyncRATRATWindows
High
Active2025-06
#rat#open-source#.net+1
>DarkGateLoaderWindows
Critical
Active2025-06
#loader#rat#persistence+1
>AgentTeslaStealer / KeyloggerWindows, Linux
Medium
Monitored2025-04
#.net#keylogger#stealer+1
>njRATRATWindows
High
Active2025-05
#rat#keylogger#persistence
>RemcosRATWindows
High
Active2025-05
#rat#commercial#espionage+1
>StealCStealerWindows
High
Active2025-06
#stealer#c-based#crypto+1
>MetaStealerStealermacOS, Windows
Medium
Monitored2025-03
#stealer#macos#cross-platform+1
>XWormRATWindows
High
Active2025-05
#rat#hvnc#ransomware+1
>VidarStealerWindows
High
Monitored2025-02
#stealer#maas#telegram+1
>RaccoonStealerStealerWindows
Medium
Inactive2024-10
#stealer#maas#c+++1
Showing 12 of 12families — click any row to expand
[DISCLAIMER] Research and educational purposes only. No malware samples, source code, or operational infrastructure are distributed. All information is derived from public threat intelligence, independent analysis, and academic research.