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Offensive DPAPI With Nemesis

TL;DR: Nemesis 2.2 automates the entire DPAPI decryption chain – from SYSTEM/user masterkeys through CNG keys...

By: Will Schroeder, Lee Chagolla-Christensen
Mar 4, 2026 • 16 min read
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Nemesis 2.2

TL;DR: Nemesis 2.2 introduces a number of powerful new features focusing on large container processing, data...

By: Will Schroeder, Lee Chagolla-Christensen
Feb 25, 2026 • 22 min read
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Mapping Deception Solutions With BloodHound OpenGraph  – Configuration Manager

TL;DR: At SpecterOps, we look at Attack Path Management from multiple perspectives, including those of identifying...

By: Joshua Prager
Feb 19, 2026 • 20 min read
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STOP THE CAP: Making Entra ID Conditional Access Make Sense Offline

TL;DR: Conditional Access is powerful but hard to reason about once policies start to overlap. CAPSlock...

By: Lee Robinson
Feb 17, 2026 • 18 min read
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V8 Heap Archaeology: Finding Exploitation Artifacts in Chrome’s Memory

TL;DR : This post aims to introduce readers to the anatomy and detection of JavaScript memory corruption...

By: Liam D.
Feb 11, 2026 • 17 min read
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Weaponizing Whitelists: An Azure Blob Storage Mythic C2 Profile

TL;DR: Mature enterprises lock down egress but often carve out broad exceptions for trusted cloud services....

By: Andrew Gomez, Allen DeMoura
Jan 30, 2026 • 10 min read
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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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