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  • Categorisation is not a Security Boundary

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    Prior to commencing any red team engagement, it is important to carefully consider how your infrastructure will be designed. As part of this process, one pivotal consideration is the host/domains…

  • Payload Generation with CACTUSTORCH

    Jul 10th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    CACTUSTORCH is a framework for payload generation that can be used in adversary simulation engagements based on James Forshaw’s DotNetToJScript tool. This tool allows C# binaries to be bootstrapped inside a…

  • RDPInception

    Jun 29th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    Remote Desktop is often used by Systems Administrators to remotely manage machines. In a lot of organisations this could mean that a machine is placed in a DMZ or segregated…

  • Hacking Hardware with an Arduino

    May 18th, 2017

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    Hardware

    Sometimes on embedded systems (such as routers or webcams), the manufacturer has left debugging ports on the board. These ports are obviously not meant for the public as they are…

  • Exploiting CVE-2017-0199: HTA Handler Vulnerability

    Apr 13th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    FireEye recently documented attacks of a 0-day vulnerability in the Windows HTA handler being exploited in the wild using Office RTF documents. The vulnerability later became referenced as CVE-2017-0199 and addressed…

  • Penetration Testing Skype for Business: Exploiting the Missing Lync

    Apr 11th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    Around a year ago, Black Hills documented multiple ways to obtain domain credentials from the outside using password spraying against Outlook Web Access. They then went on to release MailSniper,…

  • Containerised Browsing with Docker

    Mar 23rd, 2017

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    Exploitation

    This year’s Pwn2Own contest saw the majority of the main stream browsers being compromised once again, highlighting that we still have some way to go for a secure browsing experience….

  • TOR Fronting – Utilising Hidden Services for Privacy

    Feb 13th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    Tor, also known as The Onion Router as well as the Dark Web is a network that is aimed to conceal its users’ identity and their online activity from surveillance…

  • Domain Fronting Via Cloudfront Alternate Domains

    Feb 4th, 2017

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    ActiveBreach

    These are not the domains you are looking for… A technique known as Domain Fronting was recently documented for circumventing censorship restrictions by Open Whisper Systems. The benefits of this…

  • Eventvwr File-less UAC Bypass CNA

    Dec 6th, 2016

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    ActiveBreach

    Matt Nelson recently released a very useful, file-less UAC bypass using Event Viewer which was quickly implemented in to a Metasploit module by @TheColonial. Following this, we decided to release our own implementation…

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