Adam Chester

Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Adam Chester is a Senior Offensive Security Engineer on the SpecterOps TRACE team, specializing in Adversary Simulation and Research by providing novel tradecraft to consultants and customers.

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Research & Tradecraft

The Accidental C2: Exploring Dev Tunnels for Remote Access

Dev Tunnels aren’t "just port forwarding". They consist of layers of embedded protocols with RPC messages being exchanged. Once you…

By: Adam Chester

21 mins

Research & Tradecraft

An Evening with Claude (Code)

TL;DR – A new vulnerability was found one evening in Claude Code (CVE-2025-64755). I’d love to start this blog post…

By: Adam Chester

17 mins

Research & Tradecraft

Administrator Protection Review

TL;DR Microsoft will be introducing Administrator Protection into Windows 11, so I wanted to have an understanding of how this…

By: Adam Chester

11 mins

Research & Tradecraft

Tokenization Confusion

TL;DR Tokenization Confusion: We look at the new Prompt Guard 2 model from Meta, how “confusing” Unigram tokenization can lead…

By: Adam Chester

20 mins

Research & Tradecraft

The SQL Server Crypto Detour

As part of my role as Service Architect here at SpecterOps, one of the things I’m tasked with is exploring…

By: Adam Chester

12 mins

Research & Tradecraft

ADFS — Living in the Legacy of DRS

ADFS — Living in the Legacy of DRS It’s no secret that Microsoft have been trying to move customers away from ADFS for…

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32 mins