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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

Offensive 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

Cybersecurity

Chuckle: The Shell Script That Automates Multi-Tool SMB Relay Attacks

By Rob Ragan ★ 153 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity

VisualCodeGrepper: The Legacy SAST Tool That Scans COBOL and Classic ASP When Nothing Else Will

By Rob Ragan ★ 548 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

DET: Testing Data Loss Prevention by Thinking Like an Attacker

By Rob Ragan ★ 824 Unknown May 14, 2026
Data & Knowledge

PyExfil: A Security Researcher's Laboratory for Testing 30+ Data Exfiltration Techniques

By Rob Ragan ★ 806 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Subsearch: When Subdomain Enumeration Met Scala's Type Safety

By Rob Ragan ★ 75 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Marker: Building a Command Palette for Your Terminal

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.1k Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity

WAVSEP: The Forgotten Benchmark That Exposed Security Scanner Snake Oil

By Rob Ragan ★ 241 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Parsing .NET's BinaryFormatter in Python: Cross-Platform Forensics for a Dangerous Serialization Format

By Rob Ragan ★ 32 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

SSLUnpinning_Xposed: Runtime Certificate Pinning Bypass Through Java Method Hooking

By Rob Ragan ★ 893 Unknown May 14, 2026
Data & Knowledge

APTnotes: The Hacker Historian's Database of Advanced Persistent Threat Intelligence

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.8k Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Inside GoBotnet: How DNS Tunneling Turns Corporate Networks Into Command Channels

By Rob Ragan ★ 155 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

SnapPass: A 200-Line Lesson in Security Through Deletion

By Rob Ragan ★ 3 Unknown May 14, 2026