This newsletter explores multithreading vs multiprocessing in Python, explains how they work internally, highlights their strengths and limitations, and provides practical guidance on choosing the ...

Nuitka https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka is a python to native code compiler. It is used by malware a lot since there's no bytecode(which is easy to decompile) but a ...

Abstract: Despite their 40 year history, native executable decompilers have found very limited practical application in commercial projects. The success of Java decompilers is well known, and a few ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

Abstract: Pattern-based Java bytecode compression techniques rely on the identification of identical instruction sequences that occur more than once. Each occurrence of such a sequence is substituted ...

Nmap reveals four open ports, SSH, FTP, HTTP and on unknown port. HTTP has a default apache page. Let’s look into FTP, as it has an anonymous login enabled. ⛩\> ftp fortress 5581 Connected to fortress ...

As a developer who splits his time between the .NET and Java platforms, I have been surprised and dismayed by the lackluster selection of decompilers in the Java ecosystem. Jad (no longer maintained, ...