Rishalin Pillay - Offensive Shellcode from Scratch: Get to grips with shellcode countermeasures and discover how to bypass them

Get to grips with shellcode countermeasures and discover how to bypass them

Rishalin Pillay

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This book is dedicated to Rubleen and Kai. Rubleen, thank you for supporting me through this journey, for all the love you have shown, for being my pillar of support, and for giving me the greatest gift ever Kai.

I would also like to thank my reviewers, John Stone and Hamza Megahed, for their awesome feedback and support. Last but not least, a big thank you to the real rockstars, my team at Packt, for all their support and awesome work put into developing this book with me.

Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an offensive cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to red teaming and as the author of the book Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions to the cybersecurity industry, including the Event Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.

Hamza Megahed is a seasoned information security professional with more than 10 years of experience in penetration testing, security research, threat hunting, and providing security training to both the private and public sectors. He holds a BSc. in computer and system engineering along with many professional certificates, including CISSP, CISM, GXPN, eCRE, eWAPTX, and CRTP. He is the author of Penetration Testing with Shellcode.

John Stone officially started his career in infosec in 2002. From blue to red teaming and some colors in between, John has had varied roles during his career, also up and down the stack, from deep technical implementations to running a security business line. His experience has been built up across various sectors, such as financial services, retail, digital natives, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Apart from various security certifications, John also has a background in data science and is rumored to have once upon a time even been an MSCE on NT. John currently works in the CISO team of a large tech provider.