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 Mona v3 Released: ⚡ Faster 🎯 Leaner ⚙️ Broader

Long overdue… but today it finally happened. We’re proud to announce the release of mona v3. This new version brings Python 2 and Python 3 …
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 Debugging - WinDBG(X) Automation & Scripting - Part 1

Stop just using WinDBG—start bending it to your will. Discover powerful automation, event-driven breakpoints, MASM & C++ expression evaluator, …
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 Exploit Writing Tutorial Part 1 - The Video

The Corelan tutorials helped shape how exploit development is learned worldwide and inspired generations of security researchers. Now you can watch…
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 Debugging - WinDBG & WinDBGX Fundamentals

IntroductionIs AI an evolution or a revolution? Or both? Those are interesting questions. Speaking of AI - even ChatGPT and Grok agree: A …

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 Windows 10 egghunter (wow64) and more

Introduction Ok, I have a confession to make, I have always been somewhat intrigued by egghunters. That doesn't mean that I like to use (or abuse) …

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Corelan Research is a long-running cybersecurity research project focused on exploit development, vulnerability research and Windows internals.   Since 2009, we have published deep technical tutorials covering topics such as stack-based exploitation, heap exploitation, shellcoding, reverse engineering and debugging. 
These tutorials have helped thousands of security researchers, penetration testers, exploit developers and exploit dev trainers learn how modern memory corruption vulnerabilities work.