Rob Ragan

Offensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.

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1762 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

Developer Tools

Magic Wormhole: Secure File Transfer Using Password-Authenticated Cryptography

★ 22.6k Python May 14, 2026

AI Agents

Vinchuca: Understanding P2P Botnet Architecture Through a Deliberately Neutered Research Framework

★ 74 C# May 14, 2026

AI Agents

DarkAgent RAT: Dissecting a 2012 Remote Administration Tool for Security Research

★ 142 C# May 14, 2026

AI Dev Tools

Spidernet: What SSH-Based Botnets Teach Us About Remote Administration Gone Wrong

★ 103 Python May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

Netflix's Sleepy Puppy Docker: Why This Deprecated XSS Hunter Works Only Over HTTP

★ 44 Dockerfile May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Sleepy Puppy: Netflix's Deprecated XSS Hunter and the Evolution of Enterprise Security Testing

★ 97 HTML May 14, 2026

Infrastructure

How Netflix Taught the World to Containerize Microservices

★ 405 Python May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

Sleepy Puppy: How Netflix Built a Callback-Based XSS Detection System That Tracked Payloads Across Time and Applications

★ 1.0k JavaScript May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Controlling Your Nest Thermostat Without Google's Permission: A Reverse-Engineering Story

★ 298 PHP May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Parsing Mandrill Inbound Webhooks: A Minimal Python Wrapper Worth Understanding

★ 18 Python May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Building an SSL MITM Proxy in 100 Lines of Shell Script

★ 183 Shell May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Skyline: Etsy's Ensemble Voting Approach to Zero-Configuration Anomaly Detection

★ 1 Python May 14, 2026