Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
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1661 articles
Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process.
// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN
Infrastructure
SUIDGuard: Inside a Kernel Extension That Fought macOS Privilege Escalation in 2015
By Rob Ragan ★ 392 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
PCC: The Two-Day Self-Destructing PHP Security Audit
By Rob Ragan ★ 819 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Reverse-Engineering Apple's Binary Sandbox Profiles with Python
By Rob Ragan ★ 146 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Businessifier: Why Penetration Testers Need a Profanity Filter for Their Wordlists
By Rob Ragan ★ 9 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
XSS ChEF: The Chrome Extension Exploitation Framework That Revealed a Security Crisis
By Rob Ragan ★ 572 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Breaking WebSocket Security: How koto/socket_io_client Exposes the Browser Sandbox Illusion
By Rob Ragan ★ 69 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Harpoon: Building a Runtime Function Hooking Library for macOS from First Principles
By Rob Ragan ★ 125 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Magic Wormhole: Secure File Transfer Using Password-Authenticated Cryptography
By Rob Ragan ★ 22.6k Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Agents
Vinchuca: Understanding P2P Botnet Architecture Through a Deliberately Neutered Research Framework
By Rob Ragan ★ 74 Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Agents
DarkAgent RAT: Dissecting a 2012 Remote Administration Tool for Security Research
By Rob Ragan ★ 142 Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Dev Tools
Spidernet: What SSH-Based Botnets Teach Us About Remote Administration Gone Wrong
By Rob Ragan ★ 103 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
Netflix's Sleepy Puppy Docker: Why This Deprecated XSS Hunter Works Only Over HTTP
By Rob Ragan ★ 44 Unknown May 14, 2026