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Meet Aniqah: Centri’s Chief Product Officer
Duncan Whitley 24/09/2026

Meet Aniqah: Centri’s Chief Product Officer

Aniqah is Centri’s Chief Product Officer, leading the Product, Design, Content and Customer Support teams. She speaks about shaping product strategy, understanding customer problems, her background across product, commercial and strategy roles, what drew her to Centri, and her ambitions for building brilliant products and teams.

CPTA’s First Graduate Shares His Experience
Joanne Morley 24/09/2026

CPTA’s First Graduate Shares His Experience

Raymond Pompa has become the first person to earn the Certified Penetration Testing Associate certification. Having completed the training and practical exam, Raymond shares how CPTA provided practical, hands-on experience across web application, infrastructure and cloud penetration testing, and became a great building block as he continues to develop his...

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The MacGyver Escape: How to Transfer Files from a Restricted Windows Computer
Luis Suastegui 26/03/2025

The MacGyver Escape: How to Transfer Files from a Restricted Windows Computer

Have you ever needed to transfer data from one computer to another but found yourself blocked by strict security policies? Perhaps you cannot connect any USB devices, most of your programs (including PowerShell and Command Prompt) are disabled, and internet access is heavily restricted.

Centri’s Global Connect: A Chilly Team Adventure in Lapland
Duncan Whitley 14/03/2025

Centri’s Global Connect: A Chilly Team Adventure in Lapland

Picture a team diving into a winter wonderland where snowmobiles hunt the Northern Lights, huskies charge through snowy trails, and drinks come in glasses chiseled from ice. That’s what Centri got up to during our annual Global Connect, a company get-together that took us from Stockholm to the icy wilds...

JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader

We need a suitable environment to detonate the malware in a repeatable fashion. This environment should allow us to substitute our mock APIs and host to ensure the malware operates as close to real as possible.

JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild

This blog series will explore Centri's adventure into the reverse engineering of a novel SmartLoader malware variant. This malware was discovered during our research into Belsen Group's high-profile FortiGate leak. This leak was advertised as containing a list of affected companies with associated configuration data from their FortiGate devices.

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs
Luis Suastegui 21/02/2025

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs

The Black Basta ransomware gang recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons when someone using the online handle “ExploitWhispers” shared internal chat logs of the group with the public — close to a year’s worth of messages in a JSON file.