Hacker, Engineer, and avid lecturer // AUS Alumni // Head of Engineering & Co-Founder @ CTFae // Breaking and making stuff is my hobby

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined March 2017
Inspired by @GothamChess videos about AI playing chess, I decided to see what would happen if we actually gave LLMs a real chess harness. The result is llmchess.deadpackets.pw Human vs LLM, LLM vs LLM and stockfish vs LLM! Have fun! (please don't make me broke)
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See you all at @bsidesnash !!!
Excited to announce we're the official sponsor for @bsidesnash CTF event! 🎉 Info-sec pros & students, gear up for an epic CTF challenge & get your exclusive, limited edition stickers! Registration details dropping soon. Stay tuned!
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Advent of Cyber is just 9 sleeps away! 💤🎄🎅 Like and retweet to be in with the chance of winning one of the following: 🎁 Limited edition AoC t-shirt 🎁 3-month subscription 🎁 Extra tickets for the $50,000 prize draw! Three winners will be chosen on 1st December. Good luck!
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#BHMEA23 What a year. Amazing CTF, amazing conference, and the most talented hackers on the planet. Miss you already, BHMEA.
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My goto AD toolbelt: PowerView (custom) PrivescCheck (custom) PingCastle ScriptSentry Spray-Passwords (custom) SpoolSample secretsdump[.]py AMSI Bypass (custom) bypass-clm (custom) ADExplorer ADeleg Rubeus Certify BloodHound/SharpHound Locksmith SharpSCCM Inveigh PowerUpSQL Nmap
My latest AD toolbelt: ldapdomaindump NetExec impacket adidnsdump certi Certipy BloodHound.py ldeep pre2k certsync hekatomb MANSPIDER Coercer DonPAPI go-windapsearch kerbrute enum4linux-ng.py silenthound.py targetedKerberoast.py FindUncommonShares.py
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Could be a game changer for enum again. Waiting for the SharpHound pull request to come up 🔥
Following @splinter_code idea, you can also start RemoteRegistry remotely. This way you can check on which server DAs are connected, in case you want dump their creds. This script could help: gist.github.com/GeisericII/6… It works from low privileged user 😉
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Introducing Cuddlephish. Check out the open-source BitM attack tool from @FKasler, which allows pentesters to use the Browser-in-the-Middle technique on their campaigns & raise awareness of this attack vector for credential stealing. ghst.ly/3QHIfGi
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Enumerate/Bruteforce/Attack All the Things! Presenting Legba evilsocket.net/2023/11/02/En…
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Get ready for a thrilling cyber showdown at the @Adq_Official Capture the Flag event, coming to life at the iconic Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC)! AED 75,000 Prize Pool. Register Now: adq.ctf.ae
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Traveling with a custom made QR code visible on a bag or clothing between 2 airports and 2 countries reveals 16 unique scans over 96 hours
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"Dust" Here's an infinite, mathematically generated space station with volumetric shadows in just 439 characters of code! shadertoy.com/view/cdG3Wd
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📣 Stealth and supercharging your offensive security testing using: 🔥 Axiom 🔥 by @pry0cc & @0xtavian Resources and musings on this epic framework. 👇a thread👇
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الحمد لله جبت الشهاده 😭💪🇸🇦
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"Hello World under the microscope" - an article we wrote together with @gynvael and @j00ru! Originally published in issue 100 (1/2022) of the Programista magazine, now available online in Polish and English. asawicki.info/articles/Hello…
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Haha. Linux users know how to download ram xitter.cf/tjhorner/status/147078…
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Youssef Awad (DeadPackets) retweeted
Part of the winning team of the 2019 #HITBCyberWeek Cyber Battle of the Emirates, Youssef Awad returns to this year’s #conference as co-founder of @ctfae. Register today to visit the CTF.ae booth: cyberweek.ae/2021/attend
Excited to be a part of this partnership!
Proudly announcing our partnership with @hackinthebox The partnership aims to improve the educational cybersecurity content in the Middle East by introducing new CTF concepts and developing beginners friendly CTF workshops to inspire more youth to get started with cybersecurity.
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Introducing my latest project: pwnbox! A Kali container that is updated weekly featuring your most commonly used tools, all in the size of 2GB! Learn more about the project here: github.com/DeadPackets/pwnbo…
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