SpecterOps aspires to set the cadence for the rest of the cyber security industry and bring unique insight and training into the advanced threat actor tradecraft. Our team has deep experience built through helping hundreds of clients shut down attack paths, evaluate, and develop security operations programs, providing premier adversarial training courses to thousands of students in advanced adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and sponsoring numerous projects to help the security industry as a whole.
Our security team consists of some of the most sought-after industry experts, bringing deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft and years of experience in attack path management and improving threat detection and response capabilities across both commercial and government sectors.
You have likely found many of our team members speaking at industry conferences on the latest adversary tools and techniques, providing numerous research papers and posts, and developing some of the most widely used open-source tools in the industry.
Our team members are on the forefront of security research, and we are always willing to share our knowledge of attack path management, tradecraft analysis, and other adversary tactics. The objective of every solution we offer is to provide our customers with capabilities to improve their own security operations, not only while we’re there, but even after we’re gone.
We share our operational knowledge and lessons learned in the cyber security field with your team to hone their skill sets, their efficiency, and ultimately better secure your business.
Leveraging expertise built through years of cyber security training, experience and assessments across industries and hundreds of environments, our operators use our understanding of advanced adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to effectively assess and improve your security posture and ability to respond to today’s sophisticated attacks.
Whether you are building new adversary tradecraft detection and simulation teams or looking to mature existing competencies, we provide an effective approach focused on comprehensively integrating technical components into the overall cyber security operations program, ensuring robust prevention, detection, attack path management, and response capabilities.
The human component to any security program is critical. Building fundamental knowledge and perfecting the skills necessary to protect the enterprise through realistic adversary training is essential to robust security programs. Our cyber security training courses and solutions equip participants with the skills to attack, defend, and harden their environments against advanced threat actors.
From the creators of BloodHound, an Attack Path Management solution that continuously maps and quantifies Active Directory Attack Paths. Remove millions of Attack Paths within your existing architecture and eliminate the attacker’s easiest, most reliable, and most attractive target.
In August of last year, @tifkin_, @0xdab0, and I released Nemesis, our offensive data enrichment platform. After lots of feedback, operational testing, hundreds of commits, and another solid dev cycle, we’re proud to finally announce Nemesis’ 1.0.0 release. This post will detail several of the major changes we’re excited about, from host modeling, to a […]
Thank you to SpecterOps for supporting this research, to Elad for helping draft this blog, and to Sarah, Daniel, and Adam for proofreading and editing! Crossposted on GitHub. What follows is the culmination of two years of research with funding by SpecterOps and contributions from many of my coworkers. Special thanks are needed to Elad, Lee, […]
tl;dr: I wrote a script to identify every TAKEOVER and ELEVATE attack in Misconfiguration Manager. Ever since Garrett Foster, Duane Michael, and I released Misconfiguration Manager at SO-CON last month, we’ve had tons of great conversations with people interested in finding and fixing configurations that leave an SCCM environment vulnerable to attack, including those that […]
Let’s dive into what makes this so exciting! There’s so much to cover that we won’t be offended if you want to look at the CHANGELOG for a quick synopsis. Introducing Customizable Fields Over the years, we’ve had many requests for database adjustments to make it easier for Ghostwriter to fit different workflows and team […]
Written by Zach Stein & Duane Michael SpecterOps Hackathon Back in January, SpecterOps held our annual hackathon event, loosely based on Atlassian’s “FedEx Day” (now called “ShipIt Day”). The gist of the event was a bunch of hackers hanging out for a few days and presenting their results. At the event’s start, Specters broke into teams […]
How MS Exchange on-premises compromises Active Directory and what organizations can do to prevent that. At SpecterOps, we recommend our customers establish a security boundary around their most critical assets (i.e., Tier Zero) of Active Directory (AD). We help them find and remediate the attack paths that cross this security boundary with BloodHound Enterprise. One of […]
I hope I’m Not Too Late With the explosion of large language model (LLM) use, everyone is rushing to apply LLMs to their specific industry and it’s the same for information security. While LLMs have a huge range of applications in the security domain, we’re going to focus on one specific use case: answering questions about […]
Zugspitze, Bavaria, Germany. Photo by Andrew Chiles Did you know that it is possible to perform every step in Entra’s OAuth 2.0 Device Code flow — including the user authentication steps — without a browser? Why that matters: Automating authentication flows enables and accelerates comprehensive and ongoing offensive research Headless authentication frees red teamers and pentesters from requiring browser or cookie access Demonstrating […]
TL;DR: Misconfiguration Manager is a central knowledge base for all known Microsoft Configuration Manager tradecraft and associated defensive and hardening guidance. We’re also presenting this material at SO-CON 2024 on March 11, 2024. We’ll update this post with a link to the recording when it becomes available. Background Suppose you’ve been following offensive security research […]
Final Steps to BloodHound Enterprise for Government— FedRAMP High Compliance Ever since SpecterOps first launched BloodHound Enterprise (BHE) in July 2021, one of our team’s biggest frustrations involved a lack of FedRAMP qualifications, which prevented us from supporting a large set of desired users; specifically in the federal space. This is why I am both proud […]
