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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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Dough No! Revisiting Cookie Theft
TL;DR Chromium based browsers have shifted from using the user’s Data Protection API (DPAPI) master key...
By: Andrew Gomez
Aug 27, 2025 • 15 min read
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Operating Outside the Box: NTLM Relaying Low-Privilege HTTP Auth to LDAP
TL;DR When operating out of a ceded access or phishing payload with no credential material, you...
By: Logan Goins
Aug 22, 2025 • 13 min read
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Transforming Red Team Ops with Mythic’s Hidden Gems: Browser Scripting
TL;DR Mythic’s browser scripting provides tons of flexibility that operators can tailor to their unique needs...
By: Alexander K. DeMine
Aug 21, 2025 • 30 min read
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ARM-ed and Dangerous: Dylib Injection on macOS
Modern Dylib Injection Techniques for AArch64 macOS TL;DR This post details how I extended the Mythic...
By: West Shepherd
Aug 21, 2025 • 24 min read
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TL;DR WebClient is a common targeted service for NTLM relay attacks. In this post we will...
By: Steven Flores
Aug 19, 2025 • 31 min read
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Juicing ntds.dit Files to the Last Drop
TL;DR Several new Active Directory offline attack capabilities have recently been added to the DSInternals PowerShell module....
By: Michael Grafnetter
Aug 14, 2025 • 11 min read
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Going for Broke(ring) – Offensive Walkthrough for Nested App Authentication
TL;DR: Microsoft uses nested app authentication (NAA) for many applications. Access and refresh tokens for select...
By: Hope Walker
Aug 13, 2025 • 19 min read
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HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\sMarTdEpLoY – The (Static) Keys to Abusing PDQ SmartDeploy
TL;DR: Prior to version 3.0.2046, PDQ SmartDeploy used static, hardcoded, and universal encryption keys for secure...
By: Garrett Foster
Aug 12, 2025 • 10 min read
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TL;DR Due to modern advances in the AD CS attack landscape, an update to Certify was...