Insights & Updates
Research, tradecraft, and release notes on offensive security tooling from the PhantomSec team.

release apex-c2 red-team
ApeX v0.4: Metis
ApeX C2 is here: an agentic, OPSEC-focused red-team C2 with a Zig agent, on-agent LuaJIT, native MCP operator, BOF and in-process CLR execution, and clean image-backed call stacks by architecture.
October 15, 2026 PhantomSec Team
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research windows-internals persistence evadex
Phantom Persistence
A Windows persistence technique that uses RegisterApplicationRestart to survive reboots: no direct registry writes from your process, no admin privileges, and minimal detection surface.
June 22, 2025 Grant Smith (S1n1st3r)
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