Understanding Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation
The Techniques Attackers Use and Best Practices for Defending Your Organization Introduction An attacker who gets into your network is seldom content with their initial foothold. To achieve their ultimate objective, whether that’s stealing sensitive information or planting malware, they need to leverage the account they have compromised to move laterally through your environment and […]
Active Directory Permissions – Hiding in the Shadows
Understanding the Risk of Active Directory Permissions and Shadow Access I recently covered the topic of Active Directory permissions by giving an overview on how to apply them and view what already exists in your organization. In this blog, I’ll be taking a deeper dive into Active Directory permissions, outlining potential risks that exist when […]
Understanding Delegated Permissions in Active Directory
Active Directory Delegated Permissions Overview The importance of Active Directory permissions cannot be understated, the capability for users to write and perform certain actions against your Active Directory can lead to unintended changes, unnecessary risk for attack vectors and lateral movement, or total domain compromise. In this blog, I’ll be going over, at a high […]
Zerologon: From Zero to Hero – Part 3
Stealthbits’ Zerologon Detection and Mitigation Solution In my two previous blogs, we’ve gone over the new patch and update plans from Microsoft (Part 1), as well as the attack itself (Part 2). Now let’s talk about how we at Stealthbits can help. We’re actively working in the lab and investigating ways we can audit, detect, […]
Zerologon: From Zero to Hero – Part 2
How Does it Work? In Part 1 of this blog series (What is Zerologon?), we discussed how Zerologon exploits a vulnerability in NetLogon that allows a malicious actor on your network to take over a Domain Controller (DC), and eventually your entire domain. Now let’s dive into the specifics of how Zerologon works. Using Mimikatz […]
Zerologon: From Zero to Hero – Part 1
What is Zerologon? Zerologon exploits a vulnerability in NetLogon that allows a malicious actor on your network to take over a Domain Controller (DC), and eventually your entire domain. Since this attack requires no authentication and only network access, it has been given a CVSS score of 10.0 (the highest score available). At a high […]
Securing gMSA Passwords
Abusing gMSA Passwords to Gain Elevated Access gMSA Recap If you’re not familiar with Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA), you can review my last post which gave a high-level overview of how they work. In case you need a quick recap, a gMSA is a special Active Directory object used for securely running automated tasks, services and […]
What Are Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA)?
High Level Overview of GMSAs Group Managed Service Accounts Overview Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) were introduced in Windows Server 2016 and can be leveraged on Windows Server 2012 and above. gMSAs offer a more secure way to run automated tasks, services, and applications. How are gMSAs more secure you ask? Well, their passwords are […]
SMBv3 Vulnerability Explained
SMBGhost What Happened? This week, Microsoft accidentally published information around a newly identified vulnerability in SMBv3, which is being dubbed SMBGhost. This vulnerability can lead to remote code execution on the server, which is always a major concern as far as the severity of vulnerabilities go. The version affected specifically is 3.1.1, which is a […]
Ready for Microsoft’s LDAP Changes? What You Need to Know
What is Changing? In March, Microsoft will be releasing a patch that includes new audit events, additional logging, and some changes to group policy settings. Later in 2020, Microsoft will be changing the behavior of the default values for LDAP channel binding and signing. They’re making these changes because the current default settings allow for […]
