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Intercepting Network Traffic Through ARP Spoofing
Your laptop trusts ARP replies without verifying who sent them. That single design decision is enough to let another machine silently place itself between you and your router, reading everything passing through. No malware. No exploits. No brute force. Just a protocol that was built in 1982 for trusted local networks, still running on every network you connect to today. You’ve probably come across the term ARP Spoofing at some point, maybe in a book, or a subject or a YouTube
Aastha Thakker
5 min read


LinkPeek: A Passive URL Pre-Analyzer
Have you ever hovered over a link, felt something looked off, and still clicked it anyway because checking it properly felt like too much work? Or maybe you are someone who constantly switches tabs to open VirusTotal just to verify whether a URL is safe, only to realize how repetitive and interrupting that process becomes after the tenth link of the day. The truth is nobody realistically performs a full manual check for every single URL they encounter. You get a suspicious-lo
Aastha Thakker
6 min read


Do you store passwords in your Notes app? That’s exactly what Perseus is hunting for.
A banking trojan is no longer just watching your apps, it is reading your notes, observing your screen, and quietly turning small habits into financial damage. What’s more interesting? Parts of it may not even be written entirely by humans. At first glance, it behaves like typical banking malware, targeting financial apps and stealing credentials. But Perseus shifts the focus from applications to user behavior . Instead of limiting itself to banking interfaces, it scans Notes
Aastha Thakker
3 min read


Reverse Engineering Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
I have written about ClamAV signatures. I have explained YARA rules. I have broken down code obfuscation techniques and even touched CPU architecture at a level that made my own brain hurt a little. And after all that, I will be honest with you, reverse engineering still occasionally makes me want to close the laptop and go make coffee and Maggie. So if you have opened this blog hoping someone would finally say it plainly: yes, it is overwhelming. Not because it is impossibly
Aastha Thakker
6 min read
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