Mar 06, 2026
XENOPS Research
Breaking the Cube
Reverse engineering ionCube's Zend VM hooks and the opcode dispatch it drives.
Research Team
Security research notes focused on reverse engineering, detection engineering, incident response, and infrastructure tradeoffs that hold up in production.
Reverse engineering ionCube's Zend VM hooks and the opcode dispatch it drives.
A visual smoke test covering images, code blocks, and callout styling.
A repeatable method for surfacing beacon patterns that evade simple interval checks.
Mapping certificate validation gaps across common out-of-band management stacks.
A staged rotation plan that avoids service collapse while removing attacker persistence.
Tracking long-lived tokens that persist after service teardown.
A compact checklist for evaluating escape paths before production rollout.