hi. ever wondered what keeps your Azure machines whispering secrets to each other, talks to the internet, or talks back home to your HQ? that’s the role of Azure virtual networks (vnets) the core building block of Azure networking learn.microsoft.com+15azure.microsoft.com+15scholarhat.com+15tutorialsdojo.com. vnet is like your private LAN in the cloud, but with global backbone speed, scale,…
Month: July 2025
Ctrl+S to Compromise: FileFix Just Made MoTW Useless Again
hi. ever saved a web page?of course u did. Ctrl+S, “Webpage, Complete”, hit Enter, done.innocent?nope. welcome to FileFix.an exploit where saving a web page gives attackers the perfect entry — no exploits, no shellcode, just old-school HTML and Windows doing Windows things. FileFix: the ‘save as’ that opens Pandora’s browser the exploit comes from researcher…
Phishing Without a Password: How Attackers Hijacked Microsoft 365’s Direct Send
hi. buckle up. we’re talking about emails that look like they came from your coworker, were sent through your own domain, and landed right inside your users’ inboxes… …without a single login, compromised account, or auth token.this ain’t magic. this is Microsoft 365 Direct Send — and it just got weaponized. what’s Direct Send anyway?…
Zero-Days and Zero Mercy: Inside Houken’s Multi-Tool Mayhem
hi. imagine waking up, grabbing coffee, checking logs… and seeing a kernel-mode rootkit silently hijacking your cloud edge device. welcome to Houken — a stealthy but sloppy intrusion set that smashed into French networks in late 2024, chaining zero-days, dropping reverse shells, and playing persistence like a damn violin. not some elite APT black-ops fantasy…
Size Me Up: Choosing the Right Azure VM Isn’t Guesswork Anymore %)
hi. choosing an Azure virtual machine size used to feel like ordering coffee at a hipster bar: too many letters, weird combos, and no idea what the difference between D-series and Esv5 even is. good news — Microsoft cleaned things up. now there’s a logic to the madness. and u can actually pick the right…
Sovereign Shift: Microsoft Just Rewrote the Cloud Playbook %)
hi. buckle up. Microsoft’s cloud isn’t just growing — it’s splitting into forms. like cloud Pokémon, but instead of types, it’s trust models. governments, enterprises, and AI freaks now get a tailored Azure — tuned for where the data lives, who runs it, and what it can’t do. let’s go layer by layer. 1. Sovereign…