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Research & Tradecraft

Administrator Protection Review

TL;DR Microsoft will be introducing Administrator Protection into Windows 11, so I wanted to have an...

By: Adam Chester
Jun 18, 2025 • 11 min read
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OneLogin, Many Issues: How I Pivoted from a Trial Tenant to Compromising Customer Signing Keys

TL;DR OneLogin was found to have security vulnerabilities in its AD Connector service that exposed authentication...

By: Julian Catrambone
Jun 10, 2025 • 11 min read
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Update: Dumping Entra Connect Sync Credentials

TL;DR Microsoft has recently changed how Entra Connect Sync authenticates to Entra ID. This blog post...

By: Daniel Heinsen
Jun 9, 2025 • 10 min read
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Tokenization Confusion

TL;DR Tokenization Confusion: We look at the new Prompt Guard 2 model from Meta, how “confusing”...

By: Adam Chester
Jun 3, 2025 • 20 min read
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Revisiting COM Hijacking

TL;DR: This post shows how COM hijacking can serve as a reliable persistence method while also...

By: Antero Guy
May 28, 2025 • 7 min read
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Understanding & Mitigating BadSuccessor

TL;DR: BadSuccessor is a new AD attack primitive that abuses dMSAs, allowing an attacker who can...

By: Jim Sykora
May 27, 2025 • 24 min read
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The SQL Server Crypto Detour

As part of my role as Service Architect here at SpecterOps, one of the things I’m...

By: Adam Chester
Apr 8, 2025 • 12 min read
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An Operator’s Guide to Device-Joined Hosts and the PRT Cookie

About five years ago, Lee Chagolla-Christensen shared a blog detailing the research and development process behind...

By: Matt Creel
Apr 7, 2025 • 15 min read
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