LOTL weekly archive
Oct 22–29, 2026

Thank you,
contributors

Signed software, everyday admin tools, and trusted infrastructure can hide unexpected behavior. Thank you to the researchers and maintainers documenting that behavior and making the evidence more useful to defenders.

06Community contributors
22Pull requests landed
04Projects advanced
34Public repos reviewed

The contributor ledger

Familiar tools. Unfamiliar tactics.

Updated Thursday, October 29, 2026.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Added a prevention-resource link to the shared navigation and adjusted its spacing for narrow screens.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Clarified the HVCI catalog chart and filtering labels, distinguishing recorded sample behavior from a live comparison against current Windows policy.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Fixed README badge generation to count driver entries and known samples separately, with publishing regression tests.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Removed redundant per-sample Git LFS rules and added regression checks to reduce conflicts between driver submissions.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Added source and generated-policy safety checks to CI, distinguishing exact hashes from hunting leads and excluding context-only evidence from blocking outputs.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Excluded temporary research downloads from Git staging so catalog generation commits contain their intended outputs.

AMAndrea Monzani@mnznndr97

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Added Huawei HWAudioOs2Ec.sys samples and RCFlCtrl.sys process-termination research with vulnerability references.

AMAndrea Monzani@mnznndr97

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Updated fekern.sys research references, acknowledgements, and sample evidence for CVE-2025-14963.

AMAndrea Monzani@mnznndr97

Project

LOLDrivers

Contribution

Added driver samples and references documenting unsafe RtlQueryRegistryValues usage, with vendor-fix context.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

HijackLibs

Contribution

Added DLL sideloading entries for SonicWall, IBM WinWrap, Blue Iris, and ON1, linked to published intrusion research.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

HijackLibs

Contribution

Added blkscrdl.dll sideloading through Radmin executables, with signing metadata and published SHINYROAD intrusion references.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

HijackLibs

Contribution

Added eztwain4.dll sideloading coverage for Nitro executables, with hashes and references to published supply-chain intrusion research.

LRLiran Ravich@Liran017

Project

HijackLibs

Contribution

Documented frameworkbase.dll loading through n-Track Studio's ReportDump.exe, with signed-host metadata and SectopRAT research context.

Ttimsw1997@timsw1997

Project

HijackLibs

Contribution

Added MediaInfo.exe and msvfw32.dll coverage, documented TextMaker.exe loading msimg32.dll, and enriched cmutil.dll metadata.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Added a prevention-resource link to the shared website navigation.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Improved tool-page search descriptions and consolidated ITSupport247 records while preserving legacy URLs and JSON exports.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Added checks for unsafe catalog and generated-rule selectors, preserving contextual evidence without turning shared infrastructure into broad detection targets.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Preserved shared-infrastructure detection context in CSV exports, added round-trip checks, and repaired resource links and redirects.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Consolidated duplicate Level entries while preserving artifacts and references, adding research context and redirects for existing consumers.

JEJose Enrique Hernandez@josehelps

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Consolidated Quick Assist records, added Microsoft and Arctic Wolf research, and preserved retired page and JSON URLs.

MHMichael Haag@MHaggis

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Added RdViewer with vendor and phishing-campaign evidence, scoped Windows artifacts, and clear limits on unverified Unix details.

MHMichael Haag@MHaggis

Project

LOLRMM

Contribution

Added 2Pint StifleR Enterprise Remote Tools with vendor-backed capabilities, client paths, service and event-log artifacts, and explicit verification limits.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Added the lhr.life domain pattern to localhost.run detection context.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Repaired contributor attribution and YAML syntax in the localhost.run entry after its domain update.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Added goshs tunnel-mode documentation, including localhost.run infrastructure and relevant command and domain indicators.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Updated the catalog logo and favicon to match the site's theme.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Added category filters and visible-entry counts to the catalog, alongside updated social-preview metadata.

KSKamran Saifullah@deFr0ggy

Project

LOT Tunnels

Contribution

Repaired the shared page template after the metadata update, restoring title, stylesheet, viewport, and script elements.

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