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  • From Panic to Prepared: How To Become DORA Compliant

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    Following on from our blog post in September, Finding Dora. DORA sets a new standard for how financial institutions and service providers within the EU should handle their digital operations….

  • When WAFs Go Awry: Common Detection & Evasion Techniques for Web Application Firewalls

    Oct 28th, 2024

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    Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) help to protect web applications by monitoring, filtering, and blocking HTTP traffic to and from a web service. However, WAFs are too often relied upon as…

  • CVE-2024-21111 – Local Privilege Escalation in Oracle VirtualBox

    Apr 25th, 2024

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    VirtualBox is a popular open source, cross-platform, virtualization software developed by Oracle Corporation. Earlier this year we identified an arbitrary file move vulnerability in the VirtualBox system service service that…

  • Active Directory Enumeration for Red Teams

    Feb 12th, 2024

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    The Directory Service is the heart and soul of many organisations, and whether its Active Directory, OpenLDAP or something more exotic, as a source of much knowledge it often acts…

  • CVE-2024-20656 – Local Privilege Escalation in the VSStandardCollectorService150 Service

    Jan 12th, 2024

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    Overview Visual Studio is a complex and powerful IDE developed by Microsoft and comes with a lot of features that can be interesting from a red team perspective. During this…

  • Nighthawk 0.2.6 – Three Wise Monkeys

    Sep 27th, 2023

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    ActiveBreach

    Overview See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. This Japanese maxim epitomises the EDRs coming up against our latest release of Nighthawk. Following copious amounts of research and…

  • CVE-2023-26258 – Remote Code Execution in ArcServe UDP Backup

    Jun 28th, 2023

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    ActiveBreach

    Overview During a recent adversary simulation, the MDSec ActiveBreach red team were performing a ransomware scenario, with a key objective set on compromising the organisation’s backup infrastructure. As part of…

  • Nighthawk 0.2.4 – Taking Out The Trash

    May 11th, 2023

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    May 2nd 2023 Congratulations to our new king and in honour of the coronation, we proudly present Nighthawk 0.2.4. Our last Nighthawk public post was for our 0.2.1 release in…

  • Exploiting CVE-2023-23397: Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Mar 14th, 2023

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    Date: 14th March 2023 Today saw Microsoft patch an interesting vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook. The vulnerability is described as follows: Microsoft Office Outlook contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows…

  • Autodial(DLL)ing Your Way

    Oct 26th, 2022

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    ActiveBreach

    The use of the AutodialDLL registry subkey (located in HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\WinSock2\\Parameters) as a persistence method has been previously documented by @Hexacorn in his series Beyond good ol’ Run key, (Part 24)….

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