Rob Ragan

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

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1766 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

Automation

dig8: Building a DNS Crawler from Scratch in Go

★ 2 Go May 13, 2026

Automation

dig8: Crawling DNS from the Root Servers Up

★ 5 Go May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

Inside CVE-2017-5638: Dissecting a Python Exploit for Apache Struts2's Most Devastating Vulnerability

★ 13 Python May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

Snallygaster: The Single-File Security Scanner That Finds What Developers Leave Behind

★ 2.1k Python May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

Exploiting .DS_Store Leaks: How ds_store_exp Turns macOS Metadata Into a Security Goldmine

★ 1.7k Python May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

GitHack: Weaponizing Exposed .git Folders to Reconstruct Source Code

★ 3.5k Python May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

Inside am0nsec/exploit: A Security Researcher's Personal Arsenal of Proof-of-Concept Exploits

★ 184 Python May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

foospidy/payloads: The 13GB Security Payload Archive Every Pentester Should Know About

★ 3.9k Shell May 13, 2026

Developer Tools

Building a Lightweight RPC Shell for Apache Axis2: When Metasploit Is Too Much

★ 15 Java May 13, 2026

Cybersecurity

Statistically Likely Usernames: Why Horizontal Password Attacks Beat Vertical Every Time

★ 1.3k Python May 13, 2026

Developer Tools

BaRMIe: Exploiting Java's Invisible Attack Surface in RMI Services

★ 747 Java May 13, 2026

Automation

Building a Technology Detection Microservice with Wappalyzer API

★ 63 JavaScript May 13, 2026