Nick Powers

Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Nick Powers is an Senior Offensive Security Engineer, augmenting capabilities for the SpecterOps Adversary Simulation services. His published research focuses on Windows internals, initial access, and post-exploitation techniques.

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Research & Tradecraft

Less Praying More Relaying – Enumerating EPA Enforcement for MSSQL and HTTPS

TL;DR – It’s important to know if your NTLM relay will be prevented by integrity protections such as EPA, before…

By: Nick Powers, Matt Creel

16 mins

Research & Tradecraft

Relay Your Heart Away: An OPSEC-Conscious Approach to 445 Takeover

Even within organizations that have achieved a mature security posture, targeted NTLM relay attacks are still incredibly effective after all…

By: Nick Powers

13 mins

Research & Tradecraft

Less SmartScreen More Caffeine: (Ab)Using ClickOnce for Trusted Code Execution

The contents of this blogpost was written by Nick Powers (@zyn3rgy) and Steven Flores (@0xthirteen), and is a written version…

By: Nick Powers

19 mins

Research & Tradecraft

Proxy Windows Tooling via SOCKS

By: Nick Powers

14 mins