What is this blog post about? This blog post is about why incident responder artifacts not only play a role on the defensive but also offensive side of cyber security. We are gonna look at some of the usually collected evidences and how they can be valuable to us as red team operators. We will … Continue reading From Evidence to Advantage: Leveraging Incident Response Artifacts for Red Team Engagements
Introduction Most modern day EDRs have some sort of feature which allows blue teamers to remotely connect to hosts with an EDR agent/sensor installed, to aid in their investigation of incidents. In CrowdStrike, this is called Real Time Response, and it provides a wide range of capabilities, from executing built-in commands like ipconfig and netstat … Continue reading Scaling your threat hunting operations with CrowdStrike and PSFalcon
Welcome, readers, to the first installment of our blog series "Preventing Exploitation and Abuse with the RPC Firewall".In this post, we'll delve into how to create rules for the RPC firewall and how to deploy them onto our servers.In the year 2024, we'll release the second part of this series, where we'll explore detection possibilities … Continue reading RPC or Not, Here We Log: Preventing Exploitation and Abuse with RPC Firewall
Introduction Security information and event management (SIEM) tooling allows security teams to collect and analyse logs from a wide variety of sources. In turn this is used to detect and handle incidents. Evidently it is important to ensure that the log ingestion is complete and uninterrupted. Luckily SIEMs offer out-of-the-box solutions and/or capabilities to create … Continue reading Data Connector Health Monitoring on Microsoft Sentinel
In this blog post, we show in detail how a known-plaintext attack on XOR encoding works, and automate it with custom tools to decrypt and extract the configuration of a Cobalt Strike beacon. If you are not interested in the theory, just in the tools, go straight to the conclusion 🙂 . A known-plaintext attack … Continue reading XOR Known-Plaintext Attacks
A quick post on how to extract AutoHotKey scripts from an AutoHotKey script compiled executable.
