Pentest Tools

During a pentest, I regularly need to send clients things they really don’t want lying around in an inbox: the final report, extracted credentials, a dump used as proof for a finding. Email and generic file sharing tools are a bad fit for that. So I built VidraCrypt (opens in a new tab), a small open-source tool that decrypts files entirely in the browser, with the server never seeing the passphrase or the plaintext.

Despite Hyper-V’s impressive performance, its GUI can feel sluggish compared to direct interaction on your host. Finding a solution to this was challenging, as resources were scarce. This post outlines how to configure Hyper-V and Linux virtual machines for a more responsive UI, achieving a performance level comparable to VMware Workstation.