Malicious attacks are increasing in frequency, sophistication and damage. Defenders need to find and harden system weaknesses before attackers can attack them.
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This scenario simultaneously tests identity confirmation tooling (SSPR, MFA, Conditional Access), how users act under pressure, and the organization's ability to detect and follow-up on social engineering attacks.
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This article was originally published in the second edition of the InfoSec Survival Guide. Find it free online HERE or order your $1 physical copy on the Spearphish General Store. […]
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DomCat is a command-line tool written in Golang that helps the user find expired domains with desirable categorizations.
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A Content Security Policy (CSP) is a security mechanism implemented by web servers and enforced by browsers to prevent various types of attacks, primarily cross-site scripting (XSS). CSP works by restricting resources (scripts, stylesheets, images, etc.) on a webpage to only execute if they come from approved sources. However, like most things in security, CSP isn't bulletproof.
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An Infosec Survival Guide Resource, released as blog posts, with fully designed, printer-friendly PDF cheatsheets.
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One tool that I can't live without when performing a penetration test in an Active Directory environment is called NetExec. Being able to efficiently authenticate against multiple systems in the network is crucial, and NetExec is an incredibly powerful tool that helps automate a lot of this activity.
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Social engineering is the manipulation of individuals into divulging confidential information, granting unauthorized access, or performing actions that benefit the attacker, all without the victim realizing they are being tricked.
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TL;DR If you only have access to a valid machine hash, you can leverage the Kerberos S4U2Self proxy for local privilege escalation, which allows reopening and expanding potential local-to-domain pivoting paths, such as SEImpersonate!
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Burpference is a Burp Suite plugin that takes requests and responses to and from in-scope web applications and sends them off to an LLM for inference. In the context of artificial intelligence, inference is taking a trained model, providing it with new information, and asking it to analyze this new information based on its training.
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Volatility is a memory forensics tool that can pull SAM hashes from a vmem file. These hashes can be used to escalate from a local user or no user to a domain user leading to further compromise.
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This webcast originally aired on February 27, 2025. Join us for a very special free one-hour Black Hills Information Security webcast with Corey Ham & Kelli Tarala on why your […]
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GoPhish provides a nice platform for creating and running phishing campaigns. This blog will guide you through installing GoPhish and creating a campaign.
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In this video, John Strand discusses the complexities and challenges of penetration testing, emphasizing that it goes beyond just finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.
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In this video, Kent Ickler and Jordan Drysdale discuss Attack Tactics 9: Shadow Credentials for Primaries, focusing on a specific technique used in penetration testing services at Black Hills Information Security
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This webcast was originally published on October 4, 2024. In this video, experts delve into the intricacies of DLL hijacking and new techniques for malicious code proxying, featuring a comprehensive […]
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By Erik Goldoff, Ray Van Hoose, and Max Boehner || Guest Authors This post is comprised of 3 articles that were originally published in the second edition of the InfoSec […]
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While DLL hijacking attacks can take on many different forms, this blog post will explore a specific type of attack called DLL proxying, providing insights into how it works, the potential risks it poses, and briefly the methodology for discovering these vulnerable DLLs, which led to the discovery of several zero-day vulnerable DLLs that Microsoft has acknowledged but opted to not fix at this time.
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by William Oldert // BHIS Intern BHIS had a problem. We needed an environment for students to learn WiFi hacking safely. Our original solution used interconnected physical network gear […]
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