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Research & Tradecraft

Hacking Humans: Social Engineering and the Psychology

TL;DR : Social engineering engagements are the most exciting and heart pumping, “in my opinion”. It...

By: John Wotton
Jan 23, 2026 • 12 min read
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Task Failed Successfully – Microsoft’s “Immediate” Retirement of MDT

TL;DR – After reporting vulnerabilities found in MDT, Microsoft chose to retire the service rather than...

By: Garrett Foster
Jan 21, 2026 • 12 min read
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Updates to the MSSQLHound OpenGraph Collector for BloodHound

tl;dr: MSSQLHound, a PowerShell script that collects security information from remote MSSQL Server instances, now scans...

By: Chris Thompson
Jan 20, 2026 • 7 min read
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One WSL BOF to Rule Them All

TL;DR – Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a powerful way for attackers to hide from...

By: Daniel Mayer
Jan 16, 2026 • 14 min read
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MSSQL and SCCM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities

TL;DR: I found two privilege escalation vulnerabilities, one in MSSQL (CVE-2025-49758) and one in Microsoft Configuration...

By: Chris Thompson
Jan 15, 2026 • 16 min read
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Wait, Why is my WebClient Started?: SCCM Hierarchy Takeover via NTLM Relay to LDAP

TL;DR – During automatic client push installation, an SCCM site server automatically attempts to map WebDav...

By: Logan Goins
Jan 14, 2026 • 15 min read
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Introducing ConfigManBearPig, a BloodHound OpenGraph Collector for SCCM

tl;dr: Security researchers have discovered 30+ unique attack techniques targeting SCCM in the past several years,...

By: Chris Thompson
Jan 13, 2026 • 45 min read
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Azure Seamless SSO: When Cookie Theft Doesn’t Cut It

TL;DR The cookie crumbled when it expired, but the attack path didn’t. Learn how BloodHound graph...

By: Andrew Gomez
Dec 11, 2025 • 17 min read
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SCOMmand And Conquer – Attacking System Center Operations Manager (Part 2)

TL;DR: We found that SCOM RunAs credentials could be obtained on-host and also off-host in certain...

By: Matt Johnson
Dec 10, 2025 • 49 min read
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