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How Hacktive Security hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Hacktive Security scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Hacktive Security is specialized in providing offensive cyber security and compliance services to proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate potential threats.

News

Blog 1 month ago
One Router, Three Vulnerabilities: Security Research on the TOTOLINK A720R
The research was conducted on the TOTOLINK A720R router, on its latest available firmware. During said research, I identified three separate vulnerabilities affecting the same component handling the backend of the web management interface:Telnet backdoor:
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Blog 5 months ago
The TSIG That Wasn't: Finding an Authentication Bypass Across CoreDNS Transports
The original bug affected the gRPC and QUIC transports in CoreDNS. At a high level, the problem was that these transports checked whether a TSIG key name existed in the server configuration, but they did not actually verify the HMAC attached to the DNS me
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Blog 8 months ago
datapizza-ai, Yet Another Vulnerable AI Framework
TL;DR Two Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities were identified in datapizza-ai framework: SSTI leading to RCE (CVE-2026-2969, fixed): Unsafe usage of Jinja2's Template() allows Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI). If an attacker can control promp
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Blog 10 months ago
CVE-2025-67511: Tricking a Security AI Agent Into Pwning Itself
TL;DR A command injection vulnerability in the function tool run_ssh_command_with_credentials() available to AI agents in cai-framework = 0.5.9 allows to achieve Remote Command Execution. This post describes a vulnerability I discovered in the CAI framewo
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Blog 11 months ago
Ghostwire: a clear, lightweight Docker toolkit for Web, networking, and Active Directory.
TL;DR https://github.com/hacktivesec/ghostwire Traditional pentesting distributions (and the Docker versions as well) have become heavy, hard to maintain, and inconsistent across different environments. Ghostwire was created to offer a simpler alternative
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Blog 1 year ago
Introduction to OPSEC (Part 2)
The Domino Effect: An Analysis of Catastrophic OPSEC Failures Through Aggregated Technical Lapses This research validates the thesis that major operational security (OPSEC) compromises are overwhelmingly the product of an accumulation of fundamental techn
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Blog 1 year ago
CVE-2025-47943: Stored XSS in Gogs via PDF
TL;DR Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. In the version 0.13.2 and prior, there is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allows client-side Javascript code execution. The vulnerability is caused by the usage of a vulnerable
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Blog 1 year ago
Conosciamo Edoardo Ottavianelli - Penetration Tester
Non proverò a farvi tornare alla memoria la vostra infanzia da nerd, i primi computer o con quale software vi siete approcciati all'informatica (io non mi ricordo ad essere onesto, qualcosa come Bearshare o MSN…). Preferisco piuttosto parlare degli errori
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Blog 1 year ago
Lessons from a Blue Team failure
Introduction Effective cybersecurity relies not only on robust defense mechanisms but also on swift and coordinated incident response procedures. However, even well-prepared organizations can suffer critical failures if response protocols are not strictly
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Blog 1 year ago
CVE-2025-25362: Old Vulnerabilities, New Victims - Breaking LLM Prompts with SSTI
TL;DR A Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in spacy-llm = v0.7.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting a crafted payload into the template field. Update spacy-llm to version v0.7.3 or later. What is spaCy spaCy is an op
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Tech stack

The technologies known for Hacktive Security, by layer.
Languages
Python
Practices & domains
Red Teaming
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$53k
Typical range
$50k – $56k
Open positions
2
1 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $50k $50k
Highest paying role Hardware Hacker – Cyber Security (Italy) $56k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
67% ▼
Sales
33% ▼

Jobs

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