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Research & Tradecraft
Research & Tradecraft
The Renaissance of NTLM Relay Attacks: Everything You Need to Know
NTLM relay attacks have been around for a long time. While many security practitioners think NTLM relay is a solved problem, or at least a not-so-severe one, it...
By: Elad Shamir
Apr 8, 2025 • 40 min read
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AdminSDHolder: Misconceptions, Misconfigurations, and Myths
TL;DR: This blog is the brief version. I love delving into ancient history. The Fall of...
By: Jim Sykora
Oct 31, 2025 • 4 min read
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Catching Credential Guard Off Guard
TL;DR Due to new security features in Windows and the lack of existing research, we set...
By: Valdemar Carøe
Oct 23, 2025 • 36 min read
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Is Kerberoasting Still a Risk When AES-256 Kerberos Encryption Is Enabled?
TL;DR Kerberoasting is fundamentally a weak password problem. Stronger encryption slows down cracking, but it doesn’t...
By: Elad Shamir
Oct 21, 2025 • 4 min read
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The (Near) Return of the King: Account Takeover Using the BadSuccessor Technique
TL;DR – After Microsoft patched Yuval Gordon’s BadSuccessor privilege escalation technique, BadSuccessor returned with another blog...
By: Logan Goins
Oct 20, 2025 • 13 min read
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TL;DR: You can use PingOneHound in conjunction with BloodHound Community Edition to discover, analyze, execute, and...
By: Andy Robbins
Oct 20, 2025 • 14 min read
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TL;DR This writeup is a summary of knowledge and resources for nested application authentication (NAA) and...
By: Hope Walker
Oct 15, 2025 • 12 min read
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The Clean Source Principle and the Future of Identity Security
TL;DR Modern identity systems are deeply interconnected, and every weak dependency creates an attack path — no...
By: Jared Atkinson
Oct 8, 2025 • 13 min read
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AI Gated Loader: Teaching Code to Decide Before It Acts
TL;DR AI gated loaders collect telemetry, apply a policy with an LLM, and execute only when...
By: John Wotton
Oct 3, 2025 • 12 min read
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WriteAccountRestrictions (WAR) – What is it good for?
TL;DR A lot of things. The User-Account-Restrictions property grants read/write permissions to the user-account-control LDAP attribute,...