Author

Kennedy Muthii

Kennedy Muthii

Information Security Analyst

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Accomplished professional proficient in Python, ethical hacking, Linux, cybersecurity, and OSINT. With a track record including winning a national cybersecurity contest, launching a startup in Kenya, and holding a degree in information science, he is currently engaged in cutting-edge research in ethical hacking.

Areas of expertise

Certifications & credentials

  • Cybersecurity
  • Making In-House Hacking and Penetration Testing Lab
  • Introduction to Programming Using PythonID: 1073-1670144
  • SQLID: 1060-1670144
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Articles by Kennedy Muthii

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Perform VNC Brute Force Attack

In this guide, I will illustrate ways a bad actor may perform a VNC brute force attack to gain access and control a target computer.

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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How to Brute Force Attack on Web Forms? [Step-by-Step]

In the previous guide, we learned how to generate a word list using Crunch. In this guide, we will learn how to brute force a web form using THC-Hydra. We

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Wordlist Generator using Crunch

Use crunch as wordlist generator or generating password strings for brute force attacks

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Automated web cache deception attack [Tutorial]

Many of the websites on the internet are still prone to a web cache deception attack. In this kind of attack, a bad actor will “fool” a webserver to serve

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Use canary tokens for intrusion detection [Tutorial]

Step by Step instructions to use canary tokens for intrusion detection

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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DDoS attack with Torshammer Tool

Step by step instructions to perform a DDO attack on a website and bring down the website

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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5 Most Used Tools to Dox Someone [Free and Paid]

5 paid and open source doxing tools to dox someone using different methods

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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Snapchat Phishing using Grayfish [100% Working]

Step by step instructions to perform snapchat phishing using grayfish. Hack snapchat account using grayfish with examples

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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How to perform Evil Twin WiFi Attack [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step instructions to perform evil twin wifi attack on WPA/WPA2 devices. Use airgeddon to perform evil twin wifi attack on Kali Linux

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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Steps to embed payload in PDF [100% Working]

step by step instructions to embed payload in pdf to attack a windows system. Get backdoor access to windows system by exploiting a pdf file

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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Using WPA2 WiFi Honeypot for Ethical Hacks [Step-by-Step]

Create a malicious WiFi honeypot to steal passwords and other personal information of our targets.

Kennedy Muthii7 min read
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Easy OSINT using infooze tool V 1.0 [With Examples]

Infooze is an open source intelligence tool made with Nodejs and automates the information gathering process helping the user gather information in a quicker

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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Damn Vulnerable Web Application hacking [Top 3 Easy Exploits]

Damn Vulnerable Web Application hacking [Top 3 Easy Exploits] damn vulnerable web app Hello learners, in this guide we will be learning how to execute web attacks on Damn Vulnerable Web App. DVWA is an open source …

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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How to create windows undetectable payload - technowlogger

A keylogger is a tool mainly used by hackers to collect user input data on a device. An example of a keylogger is the technowlogger. Over the years, hackers

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Social Engineering Toolkit Credentials Phishing [5 Easy Steps]

In some Kali Linux distributions, social engineering toolkit is already installed. To install SET, we will clone it from its official github repository as

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Use SocialFish V3.0 for simplified phishing [Step-by-Step]

Hello learners, in this guide we will be using socialfish to acquire credentials form our target. In the previous guides we learnt what is social engineering

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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How to install Caine 11.0 VM [Step-by-Step]

Hello learners, in this guide I will be showing you how you can install Caine forensic operating system as a virtual machine. The full meaning of the word

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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3 easy steps to obfuscate android payload to avoid detection [ApkBleach]

Hello learners, in the first part of our android payload guide, we embedded an android payload to a legitimate application. The application is however getting

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Encode message in image with Steganography [Step-by-Step]

In this tutorial we learn about 3 different tools which can be used to encode or decode messages inside image using steganography.

Kennedy Muthii6 min read
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Analyze phishing email using Thephish [100% Working]

In this tutorial we shared step by step instructions to analyze phishing email using ThePhish which uses other open source yet powerful tools (MISP, Cortex and TheHive).

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Analysing Volatility Memory Dump [6 Easy Steps]

In this step by step tutorial we were able to perform a volatility memory analysis to gather information from a victim computer as it appears in our findings. We were able to discover a malware which has camouflaged as a …

Kennedy Muthii7 min read
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Create phishing campaign with Gophish

Step by step instructions to create a phishing campaign using gophish framework. We have configured sending profile, added the sending profile and templates required to carry out the phishing tests.

Kennedy Muthii5 min read
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Embed Metasploit Payload on APK on Android File [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step instructions to use metasploit and kali linux to embed a payload on apk file using FatRat.

Kennedy Muthii7 min read
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BEeF Hacking Framework Tutorial [5 Easy Steps]

Step by step instructions to use beef hacking framework with example. Beef hacking framework is a powerful tool that can be leveraged by systems security professionals to try and design systems especially web apps which …

Kennedy Muthii6 min read