Development of an intrusive Linux capacity

Offensive Security

DAP/22-E01

Finished

Innovation for Defence

October 2021 December 2025

51 months

Zacharia Mansouri, Thibault Debatty

Linux

The goal of the project is to study the different options for injecting a malware on a Linux platform, for making it persistent, performing a privilege escalation, and for establishing a command & control channel with the operator of the malware.

Offensive eBPF - Simulating a Full Disk

Linux Offensive Security eBPF

The most effective Denial of Service attacks don’t always require flooding a network or physically filling a hard drive. Sometimes, they just require a well-placed lie. Imagine a system administrator looking at df -h and seeing Terabytes of free space, while every critical service crashes with “No space left on device”. This is the power of kernel-level deception. In this post, we will demonstrate how to use eBPF not to fix a system, but to break...

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[VMware] could not connect ethernet0 to virtual network /dev/vmmon

Virtualization Linux

When using VMware on Linux distributions, particularly on Manjaro, users may encounter a frustrating issue where their virtual machines (VMs) fail to establish an internet connection, resulting in the error message “could not connect Ethernet0 to a virtual network.” This problem can be particularly puzzling, especially for those new to Linux or VMware. In this post, we’ll delve into the causes of this issue and provide a step-by-step guide on how...

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Securing external traffic on a budget with Wireguard

Linux Sysadmin

In this post I will explain how I configured my home network so that external traffic is tunneled through a Wireguard VPN server.

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