r/hacking • • 9h ago

Question What are the legal consequences of selling exploits to private buyers?

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Hypothetically, suppose you discover several reasonably critical vulnerabilities in systems belonging to different organisations. You develop working exploits that can be used to gain unauthorised access to restricted systems or data.

Assume you've successfully tested the exploits and confirmed that they work, but you haven't stolen, modified or destroyed any data, and you haven't used the access for anything malicious.

Now imagine a random buyer offers you a substantial amount of money for one of these exploits.

Have you already committed a crime simply by exploiting the vulnerability to gain unauthorised access, even if you haven't done anything further?

Is possessing and selling a working exploit itself illegal, or does it depend on the circumstances?

Could you face prison time for selling it, even if you never personally use it for malicious purposes?

If the buyer subsequently uses the exploit to attack the organisation, could you be held criminally liable?

Would it make a legal difference if you genuinely didn't know what the buyer intended to do with it?

This is a hypothetical scenario.


r/hacking • • 1d ago

News ASOS hacked info

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r/hacking • • 3d ago

News this 16 yo kid gained access to 17 trillion microsoft users records, by using "admin" as username

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the craziest part is that he didn't even need real admin credentials. Microsoft's internal API never verified JWT signatures, letting him forge an authentication token. After getting past its other checks, changing the username field to "admin" gave him administrator-level access lmao.

to be clear, the 17.3 trillion figure refers to estimated rows potentially accessible across 17 analytics databases, not records he downloaded. He reported the vulnerability to Microsoft, and the reward? just $5,000.

holy crap, how does something like this make it into production tho?

PS: the 17 trillion users records i wrote in the title is wrong, the article only says db records


r/hacking • • 3d ago

The world is becoming WaterWorld as everything is turning digital…let’s sail

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r/hacking • • 3d ago

Httpx

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I’m running arch but I installed the correct httpx via yay and I also have go installed, but whenever I try to run httpx it gives me command not found. I’m so confused, what else am I missing?
Yes I already know it’s the correct httpx not the python one


r/hacking • • 3d ago

Social Engineering **UPDATED**Advanced evil/captive portal project made to be run on the esp32-c5 or most microcontrollers capable of running marauder or similar firmware.

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r/hacking • • 3d ago

Paying with flipper zero (NFCgate)

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r/hacking • • 4d ago

How We Found Thousands of Exposed NVIDIA GPUs and a Way to Disrupt Them (CVE-2026-47483)

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TL;DR: NVIDIA DCGM Exporter is a widely used monitoring tool that collects GPU metrics like utilization, memory, temperature, and power consumption from AI servers.
We discovered that thousands of these monitoring endpoints are exposed to the public internet, allowing anyone to inspect GPU infrastructure. Worse, we found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-47483, CVSS 8.2) that lets unauthenticated attackers exhaust server resources, crash GPU monitoring, and potentially disrupt AI workloads remotely.
A few other interesting findings:
2,100+ exposed GPU servers, revealing telemetry from 12,000+ GPUs worth ~$100M, including H100s, H200s, and Blackwell GPUs.
60% of exposed GPUs reported 0% utilization across our scans.
12,096 additional servers exposed infrastructure details, including OS, firmware, and networking information.
NVIDIA fixed the vulnerability following our responsible disclosure.
Full research: https://lava.security/research/cve-2026-47483-nvidia-dcgm-exporter-vulnerability


r/hacking • • 4d ago

which course is best to learn networking ?

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im using jermey's it lab's free ccna course but it's kinda long and exam focused. is there any other networking course more hacking focused or good in general.


r/hacking • • 4d ago

EEPROM Flashing - Hash Mismatch

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Hi Hacking Community,

I’ve got a laptop that I’m trying to flash the BIOS and clear the old password out but I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong with the WSON8 pogo pins. Do you have any advice or suggestions for me to try? Every time I dump the ROM, there is a hash mismatch.


r/hacking • • 5d ago

subway

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r/hacking • • 5d ago

I found yet another way to invoke JavaScript functions without parentheses

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r/hacking • • 5d ago

Github Chrono Mock: Manipulate time/date in Windows Apps (C/C++/C#/.bat/WebView/Electron) and tons more. GUI/CLI

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Hello, Chrono Mock is an app which let's you manipulate other app time/date without changing the system clock, we can freeze time in other app, speed it up, jump in date and tons more. There is even built-in calendar for various dates problems (like 2038 and more).

Rust + WPF (GUI)

*I'm author of the tool, if you like it please give it a star on GitHub


r/hacking • • 5d ago

Malware analysis update: Suspicious ZIP Hid a Windows Malware Loader and an Antivirus-Killing Driver

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r/hacking • • 6d ago

Asos Hacked Notification?

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Did anyone else receive this notification supposedly from ASOS?

Based in UK


r/hacking • • 5d ago

Anyone ever tried to reverse engineer a Whoop fitness tracker device?

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I don’t want to pay a ridiculous $230+ yearly subscription fee. It’s too expensive. I just want to keep track of my sleep, rest, heart, lung health.


r/hacking • • 6d ago

News ASOS hacked!

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r/hacking • • 6d ago

CVE GitHub - ARPSyndicate/vedas-signatures: VEDAS-Driven Autonomous Generation + Community Contributions of Suricata & Nuclei Rules for over 13,000 CVEs

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r/hacking • • 7d ago

Question Where can I find a good forum?

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Where can I find a good hacking forum or a forum like hackforums.net that ISNT a honeypot.

Any onions ?


r/hacking • • 8d ago

News dread is compromised

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homepage now reads:

"So, Dread has been hacked! What's next?

If you are reading this, you are already on our site — just on Dread's domain, in case anyone missed that.

The condition for Dread is this: leave this domain alone. Get in the way, and the data can be published. A deal is on the table — we can hand the domain back, or pass it to someone else if they want it. The contacts further down are how that conversation starts."

apparently this happened several days ago but i'm baffled, i can't find any news discussing this and i accessed the site literally yesterday. not sure whether posting onions is allowed, you can find find the link on tor.taxi.

https://i.postimg.cc/3R7LCP09/image.png


r/hacking • • 9d ago

Threat Actors Saif Al-Din Khader a/k/a "Rey" has been arrested in Jordan for his involvement in the FBIJobs hack and ShinyHunters

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r/hacking • • 9d ago

Tools Super Trouper v0.4.0 — more Frida tools for iOS app reverse engineering

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I’m the author of Super Trouper, a single-binary MCP server that exposes Frida to coding agents for authorized app reverse engineering. It lets an agent connect to a device, inspect apps and processes, manage sessions, and run instrumentation scripts without a Python-based Frida setup.

We released v0.4.0 a few days ago; it updates the bundled Frida Core DevKit to v17.19.0 and adds four MCP tools: memory_read and memory_write for working with memory in an attached process, plus module_list and thread_list for inspecting loaded modules and threads. app_list and others now have several query scopes, and we renamed the MCP tools into clearer namespaces. If you already have workflows built around the old tool names, check them when updating.

Quick catch-up on the two previous releases: v0.3.0 added npm installation, Frida CodeShare snippet search/use, and general cleanup. v0.2.0 moved the project to the MIT license, added first-party Frida language bridges for ObjC, Java, and Swift, and enabled TypeScript in scripts and evaluations.

I’d appreciate feedback from people using Frida in iOS research: are these tool boundaries and the new app-list scopes useful in practice? What’s missing or awkward in your workflow, and which features would you like to see next? Let me know what you think.


r/hacking • • 10d ago

Resources Chrome UX Report Dump: August 2026 data added

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I maintain Chrome UX Report Dumps, a collection of monthly Chrome UX Report website lists grouped by rank and published as compressed downloads. It’s meant to make the data easier to use without exporting it from BigQuery.

The latest update adds the August 2026 dataset: 18,294,881 entries across 10 files, totaling 94.7 MiB compressed. The repository now contains 1,064,254,496 entries across 67 monthly datasets, totaling 5.32 GiB compressed. Those are counts across monthly dumps, not a count of unique websites.

If you use website lists for research or security work, I’d welcome feedback. What would make these dumps more useful, and what features or formats would you like to see?


r/hacking • • 11d ago

great user hack My local AI pentesting stack is dailed in!

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"Qwen3.6 35B + custom tools + docker"

Just wanted to share a local setup I finally got working smoothly for my pentesting workflow.

Im running Qwen3.6 35B locally via ollama, wrapped inside an open webui docker container on kali. To make it easily accessible with local https, im routing everything through caddy using nip.io for dns management.

instead of using the llm as a glorified search engine I bundled a unified python script directly into the open webui tools framework to give the model real capabilities.

right now it can:

scrape github repos natively + parse nmap logs + isolated python sandbox.

all local no api, self hosted, no data leaks.

honestly this wasn't a easy task for me, never touching a llm model locally and learning on the fly.

it was a lot of fun setting up (3 days straight) but now it's time to have some fun with it.

if you want to do this or something similar lmk, I would like to see others use ai like this.


r/hacking • • 11d ago

Anyone tried the recent Samsung TV root exploits (MADBugs / chris-ritsen)?

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