The Blind Hacker

Research Lab (Est. 2020)

NextGenRedTeam (NGRT) & Threat Lab Blog

Independent threat emulation research lab specializing in purple teaming, detection validation, local AI/NPU benchmarks, and open-source offensive tooling.

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Offensive AI Benchmarking

Strata & Local LLM Shootouts

Comprehensive offensive security benchmarking across Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and dense LLM architectures on ZimaCube Pro and RTX nodes, evaluating exploit reasoning, recon parsing, and CPU thread scaling.

Read Strata Benchmark Reasoning vs. Frontier Models
Edge NPU Silicon Research

Axera AX8850 Zero-Copy NPU Engine

Virtualizing a 24 TOPS PCIe edge NPU inside Proxmox VE LXC containers, eliminating CMM memory-copy bottlenecks, and auditing vendor C/C++ runtime SDKs for DMA and memory corruption flaws.

Hunting Edge AI CVEs (Lab Deep Dive) Dissecting AX-LLM CVEs (Cobalt) Read Zero-Copy NPU Guide
Hardware Rescue

JoeBro Controller

An open-source, zero-backend Progressive Web App (PWA) designed to restore full control of Sobro Smart Coffee Tables by bypassing broken vendor mobile apps via direct Ayla Cloud API queries.

Launch JoeBro PWA Read IoT Rescue Writeup
Threat Emulation & Private AI Lab

NextGenRedPVE & Swarm-AI

A local threat emulation architecture running custom Proxmox VE nodes with local LLMs (Ollama/vLLM), SearXNG/LiteLLM gateways, and distributed agentic orchestrators for continuous security testing.

Read Benchmark Private AI Lab Guide
Open-Source Tooling

Detection Emulators

Multi-language threat emulation suites (EventID4625 & LinuxLoginFailure) targeting Windows Security Event logs (Event ID 4625) and Linux SSH authentication telemetry.

View Repositories Read Telemetry Playbook
Accessibility Engineering

Hacking by Ear at 500 WPM & Accessible AI Tooling

Screen-reader-first Linux CLI offensive methodology and AI-compiled accessible Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) demonstrating how blind and visually impaired operators parse telemetry and build tooling at 500+ WPM.

Hacking While Blind CLI Guide Read 500-WPM Article AI Accessible CLIs & PWAs
Community

Dead Pixel Sec

A thriving cybersecurity community providing collaborative research space, CTF participation, technical mentorship, and career navigation for defenders and operators.

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Mentorship & Workplace

Career Coaching & Sponsorship

Free workplace development services including resume reviews, mock interviews, job coaching, personal letters of recommendation, and conference sponsorship initiatives.

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