John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026video on the FBI hack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6p2... 082
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Someone 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 031
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I walk through the full investigation in a video demo, breaking the story alongside the team that unmasked the cybercriminal: youtu.be/nj9e2Qfe3Ccyoutu.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:… 031
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The 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. 152
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026say 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 021
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"AI powered botnet" sounds like a goofy alarmist news headline, but it's interesting it's pretty feasible now -- 120
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 01/06/2026A 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 172
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"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: 141
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Hey-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 000
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 27/04/2026During 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 031
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026hELLO 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 ✌️ 120
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026A 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 121
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 23/04/2026More 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 002
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Joined 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 022
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Wild 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 023
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Real 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 030
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Fake 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 041
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Our 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! 010
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I'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/authentikjh.liveWelcome | authentikBring all of your authentication into a unified platform. 000
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 03/04/2026heyyyyyy 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 120
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026If 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... 0143
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Vibecoding -- 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 161
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 13/03/2026NahamSec 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 051
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 11/03/2026GraphSpy: 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 030
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The 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 000
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I'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 050
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026h?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 081
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Google 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 081
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Quick 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 041
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"TikTok needs to fix this vulnerability" -- video: youtu.be/djhX8Q4JuFU 000
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/02/2026"AI wrote a hit piece." Video: youtu.be/RP-zs6J6ySw 04310
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Super 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 060
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Moltbook 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 062
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 06/02/2026February 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 052
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Also, 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...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… 010
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I 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.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… 110
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Are 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 120
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Feels good to get something out the door again. I hope you take a look! YouTube link: youtu.be/Mw8DVcLSZIcyoutu.be 000
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I'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!youtu.be 100
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/01/2026No 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 😅youtu.be 100
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/01/20263. 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!youtu.be 100
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Video 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, 150
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 13/12/2025"'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 0103
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Infostealer 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 090
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Continuing 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 162
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Yapping 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 021
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Big 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/aoc2025jh.liveTryHackMe | Cyber Security TrainingTryHackMe is a free online platform for learning cyber security, using hands-on exercises and labs, all through your browser! 040
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Flattered 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 171
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Full length reverse engineering with Invoke RE! Showcasing new iterations of the "Scavenger" malware, or what we saw as "ExoTickler" previously as a fake City Skylines 2 video game mod, now w/ more crypto/creds stealing and C2. Binary Ninja, x64dbg & more: youtu.be/wFBdeak0t70 041
