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Building things, breaking them, and learning along the way.<br>Just trying to understand how it all worksBuilding things, breaking them, and learning along the way.
Just trying to understand how it all works
The headline is easy to remember: an attacker used an apparently AI-generated PowerShell script to enumerate Active Directory.
The more interesting part is what happened around that script.
In recent years, defenders have grown accustomed to recognizing familiar malware families, PowerShell one-liners, and well-known attack chains. Detection strategies have often relied on patterns that repeat over time.
In recent years, part of the digital landscape has quietly shifted. Not abruptly. Not at a scale that immediately draws attention.
But enough for certain platforms, once considered marginal, to start gaining real traction.
In my previous posts, I focused on kernel vulnerabilities and exploitation primitives such as use-after-free, page cache corruption, and metadata confusion.
This case is different, is not a vulnerability in code is a compromise of trust.
I’ve been learning cybersecurity through labs, writeups, and by building my own environment. At the beginning, like most people, I relied a lot on Google and StackOverflow.
After exploring kernel vulnerabilities, I wanted to shift toward a different attack surface.
This time: distributed systems CVE-2026-3854 is different.