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Maximus Farthing

Senior Security Consultant

Experience

Maximus has six years’ experience within the cyber security industry and works as a Senior Security Consultant specialising in adversary simulation and red team operations across all areas of offensive security. His work focuses on emulating real-world threat actors to assess compromise paths across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.

He works closely with clients and internal stakeholders to make sure engagements are well-scoped, clearly communicated, and aligned to real risk. He places strong emphasis on clear reporting, pragmatic insight, and collaboration with defensive teams to ensure outcomes are actionable and genuinely improve security posture.

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Articles from Maximus Farthing

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14th Jul 2026

Ethical hacker series | CVE-2026-33829: Snipping tool NTLM vulnerability explained

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14th May 2026

Ethical hacker series | ATS: Domain Admin Token Impersonation

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19th Mar 2026

Ethical hacker series | RegPwn: Inside CVE-2026-24291

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23rd Feb 2026

Ethical hacker series | Anthropic’s Claude Code Security and the cyber sell-off: Why human assurance still anchors enterprise AppSec

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09th Feb 2026

Ethical hacker series | Deep dive into CVE-2026-24061