Intro In this blog post we discuss a zero-day topic for finding privilege escalation vulnerabilities discovered by Ahmad Mahfouz. It abuses applications like Software Center, which are typically used in large-scale environments for automated software deployment performed on demand by regular (i.e. unprivileged) users. Since the topic resulted in a possible attack surface across many … Continue reading CVE Farming through Software Center – A group effort to flush out zero-day privilege escalations
Tag: Adversary Emulation
Introducing pyCobaltHound – Let Cobalt Strike unleash the Hound
Introduction During our engagements, red team operators often find themselves operating within complex Active Directory environments. The question then becomes finding the needle in the haystack that allows the red team to further escalate and/or reach their objectives. Luckily, the security community has already come up with ways to assist operators in answering these questions, … Continue reading Introducing pyCobaltHound – Let Cobalt Strike unleash the Hound
Thoughts on the recent Red Team debate
Around the end of November 2019, Florian Roth wrote a much-discussed post about problems he saw with today’s red teaming. I considered writing a blog post to diverge some of my ideas and “respond” to his concerns. However, as is often the case with these types of things, I didn’t get to it at the … Continue reading Thoughts on the recent Red Team debate