Packet.Zip is back — dark security, total chaos, and adversarial AI

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News & analysis — what's actually happening in AI-powered attacks and defense, without the vendor gloss.

Tutorials & demos — hands-on, lab-tested walkthroughs. Prompt injection, model red teaming, AI-assisted recon, and the classic offensive tradecraft that still works.

Editorials — opinions are ours and sometimes sharp. That's the point.

Podcast and videos — the Packet.Zip podcast and conference talks, all in one place.

Offensive Security Tutorials

Impacket from Scratch: Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Lateral Movement in a Lab

A hands-on Impacket tutorial for beginners: build a lab, then walk Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, secretsdump/DCSync, and remote execution end to end — with the red team, blue team, and attacker view of each, plus the exact Windows event IDs that detect them and the controls that stop them.

Aamir LakhaniJul 24, 202616 min read

Offensive Security Tutorials

BloodHound for Beginners: Mapping the Attack Paths Hiding in Active Directory

Build a lab Active Directory domain, collect it with SharpHound, and use BloodHound CE to find the permission chains that lead to Domain Admin — plus how red teams, blue teams, and real attackers each use it, and how to detect and dismantle the paths.

Aamir LakhaniJul 24, 202621 min read

Offensive Security Tutorials

DNS Tunneling Explained: Build a Lab and Watch Data Hide Inside DNS

A beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide to DNS tunneling: how it works, how to build a safe isolated lab with iodine, what it looks like on the wire, and — most importantly — how to detect and defend against it.

Aamir LakhaniJul 24, 202618 min read

Packet.Zip is back — dark security, total chaos, and adversarial AI

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Impacket from Scratch: Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Lateral Movement in a Lab

BloodHound for Beginners: Mapping the Attack Paths Hiding in Active Directory

DNS Tunneling Explained: Build a Lab and Watch Data Hide Inside DNS