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Prioritization of the Detection Engineering Backlog

Written by Joshua Prager and Emily Leidy Introduction Strategically maturing a detection engineering function requires us to...

Oct 5, 2022 • 17 min read
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Automating Azure Abuse Research — Part 2

Aug 31, 2022 • 0 min read
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Encrypting Strings at Compile Time

Thank you to SpecterOps for supporting this research and to Duane and Matt for proofreading and...

Jul 20, 2022 • 5 min read
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Dealing with Failure: Failure Escalation Policy in CLR Hosts

Offensive tooling built upon the .NET framework and its runtime environment, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), is...

Jul 13, 2022 • 12 min read
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Koh: The Token Stealer

Years ago I was chatting with a few experienced red teamers and one was lamenting token...

Jul 7, 2022 • 14 min read
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Relaying NTLM Authentication from SCCM Clients

tl;dr: Seriously, please disable NTLM I recently learned that you can coerce NTLM authentication from SCCM servers...

Jun 30, 2022 • 16 min read
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The Phantom Credentials of SCCM: Why the NAA Won’t Die

TL;DR — Stop Using Network Access Accounts! If a Windows machine has ever been an SCCM client, there...

Jun 28, 2022 • 10 min read
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Understanding the Function Call Stack

There’s more than meets the eye under the function call hood This post is based on a...

Jun 27, 2022 • 11 min read
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Introducing Ghostwriter v3.0

The Ghostwriter team recently released v3.0.0. This release represents a significant milestone for the project, and...

Jun 14, 2022 • 5 min read
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