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SharpShell: The Worst Scripting Engine of All-Time

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Hunting in Active Directory: Unconstrained Delegation & Forests Trusts

During DerbyCon 2018 this past October, my teammates gave an awesome presentation titled “The Unintended Risks of Trusting Active Directory”. They…

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Not A Security Boundary: Breaking Forest Trusts

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Operational Challenges in Offensive C#

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Another Word on Delegation

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CVE-2018–8414: A Case Study in Responsible Disclosure

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Persistent Credential Theft with Authorization Plugins

Credential theft is often one of the first tactics leveraged by attackers once they’ve escalated privileges on a victim’s machine.…

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CVE-2018–8212: Device Guard/CLM bypass using MSFT_ScriptResource

Device Guard and the enlightened scripting environments that come with it are a lethal combination for disrupting attacker activity. Device…

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Rubeus — Now With More Kekeo