John Hammond

video on the FBI hack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6p2...

17 Sept

Someone shared with me a clever and crafty ClickFix lure, that smuggled in and extracted its next stage payload from the victim's web browser cache 👀 I dug into it in a video: youtu.be/oJHOlNTH7lY

27 Aug

The hacker behind TeamPCP was deanonymized and arrested. After a year of headline-making breaches and wild supply-chain attacks, taunting and teasing victims all the while... it turns out another kitty-cat profile picture was the thread that unraveled his identity.

youtu.beDOXXED by his CAT PROFILE PICTURESo f***ing cool. Blog: https://jh.live/flare-teampcp Flare: https://jh.live/flare-cats Learn Cybersecurity and more with Just Hacking Training: https://jh.live/training See what else I'm up to with:…

27 Aug

I walk through the full investigation in a video demo, breaking the story alongside the team that unmasked the cybercriminal: youtu.be/nj9e2Qfe3Cc

21 July

"AI powered botnet" sounds like a goofy alarmist news headline, but it's interesting it's pretty feasible now --

21 July

say on top of usual RAT effects, malware steals your Claude or Codex account or uses resources for local models to run a whole AI farm off infected hosts. Video: youtu.be/XZ4E2sHtNuw

1 June

A Linux backdoor is being sold on the dark web for $1,600 USD. The developer called it "PamDOORa", while it abuses the Linux PAM stack for persistent SSH access, credential harvesting, and wiping logs. YouTube Video: youtu.be/3YB4XGy8xwE

18 May

"I Built an AI Cybersecurity Research Factory (for CTFs & Vulnerabilities)!" ... long-form video demonstration that doubles as "how I personally use AI lately," and some playground experiments setting it in motion to go hack away on wargames and potential software applications 🤖 Video link below:

18 May

Video: youtu.be/j7GpjcyJYtU

28 Apr

Hey-o, I'm jumping in to host a show to demystify the dark web alongside Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) (huge thanks to Lynn Dohm for letting me join the party) this Thursday, April 30 at 12pm CT! Should be fun, hope to see you there too 😊 Link: jh.live/wicys-webinar

27 Apr

During tax season I got a notification that my tax documents are ready, from... uh... Zoom 😂 Phishing email leveraging their legitimate document sharing functionality, pointing to a link and a domain that _looks like_ an IRS website, but, infects your computer. Video link: youtu.be/p6ySQ94GZsA

26 Apr

hELLO the tIME HAS cOME oNCE AGAIN on my cONTENT cALENDAR for me to continue to scream and shout about oUR VIRTUAL EVENT ContinuumCon 2026 jUNE 12 - 14 continuumcon.com livestream run of show is free & public but all workshop sessions get into hands-on labs see u there ✌️

24 Apr

A funny slew of phishing emails I've seen flying around: a legitimate Facebook Business invite notification, but bad actors stuffing threatening urgency into their "name" values that get inserted into the real email. And the phishing landing page is hysterical. 🤣 Video link: youtu.be/QRN3t1_paTY

23 Apr

More ConsentFix -- a "V3" some might say, shared amongst a dark web/cybercrime forum, and a treasure trove of tradecraft to see how bad actors leverage third-party sites and services to do their dirty work. 👀 Video: youtu.be/T3oVdPCMDJw

21 Apr

Joined by Katrina Manson to hear all about her latest book release: Project Maven & the Dawn of AI Warfare 👀 We talk AI usage at the Pentagon, drone intel, AI enabled targeting, and the ethical tipping point of autonomous weapons. Super fascinating ideas. Video: youtu.be/OVgruylpVXc

9 Apr

Wild story on a big AI-powered social engineering campaign, leveraging Device Code phishing to steal Entra ID/Microsoft accounts -- all with entirely unique and personalized per-victim lures from vibecode-crafted infrastructure 🤯 Video: youtu.be/9b3kirR8s2U

8 Apr

Real treat to catch up with Joe Tidy and hear more behind the scenes deets about his book Ctrl+Alt+CHAOS: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet 🤩 Insight into "the most hated hacker in history" and the rise and fall of teenage hacking gangs. Video: youtu.be/GUzD_ShRKYE

7 Apr

Fake Windows notifications -- homage to iPurpleTeam and their sweet recent writeup, showcasing some tricks with toast popups in pure PowerShell to fake alerts from installed apps found in Registry. Even a low-privilege custom protocol handler! Video: youtu.be/wrAFZLa1TAk

4 Apr

Our virtual event endeavor is back for its round-two show -- ContinuumCon 2026! Banner mantra "The cybersecurity conference that never ends" 😜 All sessions are workshops and you keep a whole cyber range to work on them whenever you want. jh.live/continuumcon Main eventlivestream is June 12-14th!

3 Apr

heyyyyyy In case you missed it, I got to chat with Fletcher Heisler about the cool stuff he's been cooking up with @authentik ! And I met Fletcher at BsidesSF -- really awesome guy 🤩😊 Video: youtu.be/2ttrqnw5kDE

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3 Apr

I've actually used authentik to manage identities in a self-hosted local environment before, so was really happy to hang out and see it even more in action. Thanks Fletcher!! 😄See their sweet stuff: jh.live/authentik

31 Mar

If you're waking up to the Internet and your world on fire from the new NPM and axios package supply chain attack, I have a short 15 minute video to hopefully catch you up to speed. Links to further resources included -- video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58c...

20 Mar

Vibecoding -- err... 🌈 AI assisted programming ✨ -- a "ChatGPT for the dark web!" Natural language chat interface backed by threat intel API, for a Golang tool with a TUI (in spirit of the current command-line coding harnesses 😜). Fun project. Video: youtu.be/oqU41QwtAGE

13 Mar

NahamSec teaches me bug bounty basics! He fills me in on the platforms, programs, and how the scope has grown so much now. Ben walked me through threat modeling and had a slick demo of his real-world bugs found with Red Bull and others 😎 Video: youtu.be/lNuvI48ysVo

11 Mar

GraphSpy: A Hacker's Tooling Deep Dive, video demos with the creator @RedByte1337! 🤩 Keanu shows me the wild things you can do for post-exploitation in Entra ID -- even adding a physical security key for persistence and a ton of other tricks 🤯 Video: youtu.be/qEtoKC32UoE

4 Mar

The recent Trezor-physical-mail-phish-delivery-crypto-scam made me giggle -- so I rambled about it in a video. I'm not a crypto guy but alarm bells should probably go off in your mind when something is asking for your recovery seed phrase. 😅 Video: youtu.be/UQFySFs2GJk

28 Feb

I've made some updates and added 2 hours worth of new material to the "Linux for Hackers Fundamentals" course on @hackinghub_io ! Vim text editor basics and sed & awk for text processing. Here's a 40% off discounted link if you'd like to take a peek :) hhub.io/Linux2026JH

27 Feb

h?ckers a[r]e gl*bbing! A little showcase of @0xv1nx0 's neat new project LOLGlobs -- demo is a teeny weeny PowerShell download cradle, obfuscated with globbing tricks and used with some 'living off trusted sites' just flair for funzies too :) Video: youtu.be/IImLVU39V_Q

26 Feb

Google API keys didn't use to be considered "secret," so they're all over the web-- but now they are an open door to Gemini 🫠 Quick rundown video of Truffle Security's really nifty research, almost 3,000 websites exposed.. including Google themselves😅 🔗 youtu.be/XNMHUifKce8

19 Feb

Quick dance with CVE-2026-21509, a "Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability" and an emergency out-of-band fix from January Patch Tuesday (and an obligatory exaggerated YouTube thumbnail -- I apologize and appreciate folks who understand algorithm nuance) youtu.be/Ck8IPInn74A

16 Feb

"TikTok needs to fix this vulnerability" -- video: youtu.be/djhX8Q4JuFU

15 Feb

"AI wrote a hit piece." Video: youtu.be/RP-zs6J6ySw

14 Feb

Super quick video of the Sinobi ransomware gang fail from a few days ago, because the story made me laugh 😅 I'm trying to get in a groove of shorter videos, and I thought this this fit. Video: youtu.be/OwTV42GyRnk

13 Feb

Moltbook is still weird. And external AI skills suck. I'm late to the yap party by a week or so (which is apparently an eternity in the current time vortex) but I wanted to show cool community resources & research amongst the skills shenanigans. Video: youtu.be/IvL89vbWmQ8

6 Feb

February got here fast-- and the 2026 Snyk Fetch the Flag CTF came up quick too! This year my friend NahamSec is hosting the game, starting NEXT THURSDAY 2/12 at 12pm ET! Free 24-hour Capture the Flag event with AR glasses as prizes 😎 See ya there! jh.live/snyk-ftf2026

21 Jan

Are MCP servers safe and secure? Yes? No? Sometimes? Maybe? ... Zack Korman shows me some of his learnings on MCP security (or lack thereof) with his "Evil MCP" project 😈 YouTube link: youtu.be/_r_sLetar_o 1. data exfil of your prompts & code context 2. inserting vulnerabilities into your code

zkorman.comCyber & Dev #2: MCPThis blog post is meant as supporting material to go along with a video I am making on the same topic (will provide a link when that goes live). This is part of a series I’m doing to help give people…

21 Jan

I for one am totally guilty of just throwing caution to wind and poking at the newfangled whizbang AI world with reckless abandon -- but whatever "black box" we tout it to be, there's stuff you don't notice and forget that just you accepted the risk.

21 Jan

Also, meme thumbnail experiment continues. Disaster girl feels appropriate when AI might burn down your codebase. This is the first time Zack and I got to hang out and chat, please show him and his writeup some love! All credit to him and his work -- his blog: zkorman.com/posts/cyberd...

Video demo of the NTUSER dot MAN trick I saw floating around before the new year -- I did not know this was a thing👀 Hat tip to DeceptIQ et al.... we showcase: 1. breaking a Windows login with an empty user profile, 2. getting initial access EZPZ with a Sliver C2 implant,

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I'm experimenting with MEMES in the THUMBNAIL and SHORT video TITLES to MITIGATE against CLICKBAIT Also experimenting with longer social text promos for video releases to add more preview details and context. I no longer have to just feed algorithms, but now LLMs, too!

Feels good to get something out the door again. I hope you take a look! YouTube link: youtu.be/Mw8DVcLSZIc

3. exporting, downloading, and hijacking an existing target user profile NTUSER.DAT or HKCU Registry hive, 4. converting hives from .reg plaintext to binary with the HiveSwarming.exe tool, 5. and establishing persistence with the new backdoored NTUSER dot MAN profile we upload!

No Registry writes, API calls or registry callbacks because it's just a single file placed on disk! Kinda neat. This is my first recording after a month break for the holidays and it was _painful_ -- lots of fails and mistakes and it took many hours 😅

13 Dec 2025

"'ConsentFix', a browser-based ClickFix-style attack with OAuth consent grants" ... leveraging the Azure CLI app client to social engineer for easy access into Entra ID 👀 I got nerdsniped by this, so I played with it a bit and tried a drag-and-drop gesture! Video: youtu.be/AAiiIY-Soak

12 Dec 2025

Infostealer malware logs -- maybe an unconventional threat intel source, but Estelle Ruellan shows me her sweet research using LLMs to analyze stealer logs at scale: - How did a victim get infected? - Can we uncover a threat actor when they infect themselves? and more. Video: youtu.be/3j4jzCU0Kwc

8 Dec 2025

Continuing THE FUTURE IS ****** comic book Capture The Flag challenges! Carving email attachments to uncover malicious Microsoft Office macros with olevba, prompt injection within an AI chatbot, and tracking network packets to uncover flags! Video: youtu.be/Oiv3TaIR9UY

5 Dec 2025

Yapping about the GlassWorm supply chain malware campaign and the neato tricks it uses with "Invisible Unicode" characters -- essentially whitespace steganography, showcasing the Hangul Filler, zero-width space, & Private Use Area characters 🤯 Video: youtu.be/0XumkGQFEEk

2 Dec 2025

Flattered to help start the party for the Advent of Cyber Day 02 task from TryHackMe -- walking through today's challenge using the Social Engineer Toolkit to send a phishing email and snag passwords with a simple Python HTTP server! Video: youtu.be/w8O8FcRgDXU

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2 Dec 2025

Big thanks to @tryhackme for their continued support of the channel! You can jump into the Advent of Cyber 2025 event right now, it is free to play and anyone can join to level up their cybersecurity skills with a new task every day! jh.live/aoc2025