Synthyze
RSS FeedWhere minds and machines converge — a blog about cybersecurity, CTF challenges, AI/ML engineering, and software development by HexTrace.
Dive into writeups, research notes, and projects exploring the frontier where security meets artificial intelligence.
Want a digital business card? Run curl -sL https://synthyze.com/business_card
in your terminal.
Recent Posts
-
Leveraging Agentic AI Harnesses for CTF Challenges
Agentic AI harnesses like Opencode are rapidly transforming development workflows, but how well do they perform in cybersecurity challenges? This post explores an experiment evaluating whether these tools can effectively assist in solving reverse engineering and CTF problems in a real-world setting.
-
Industrial Intrusion CTF: OT CTF Challenge on TryHackMe
Investigating post-remediation anomalies at Virelia Water Control, we uncover a stealthy OT implant and face off against a live adversary in TryHackMe’s Industrial Intrusion red team CTF.
-
Crack, Pivot, Pwn: My 2-Hour OSCP+ Blitz Through 10 Machines
Updated:From initial foothold to full domain compromise in under two hours, I share the methods, tools, and mindset that shaped my OSCP journey and turned pressure into precision. A must-read for OSCP hopefuls.
-
Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025: Tales from Eldoria
A deep dive into the Eldoria CTF—solving OSINT, AI, ML, reverse engineering, and web challenges. This writeup breaks down my approach, solutions, and lessons learned in the quest for the Dragon’s Heart.
-
Cyber League 2025 CTF Writeup: Crypto, Forensics, Cloud & More
Our Cyber League 2025 CTF writeup covers Crypto, Forensics, Cloud, and Misc challenges. Detailed solutions, insights, and lessons learned—this guide will level up your cybersecurity game!
-
IrisCTF 2025
A writeup on the flags we cracked during IrisCTF 2025, covering Forensics and OSINT. Thanks to IrisSec for this fun and educational CTF experience!