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BloodHound Community Edition Custom Queries

This blog post introduces our new custom queries for BloodHound Community Edition (CE) and explains how you can use them effectively to analyze your Active Directory infrastructure. TL;DR: Check out our new BloodHound CE custom queries! Active Directory and BloodHound The majority of our customers run a Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure, either exclusively on-prem or […]

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Compiling a Mimikatz Module for Dumping Citrix Credz

Sometimes, the good old credential dumping techniques just won’t work. This is the story of how a bad actor could dump credentials on a fully-patched, monitored and hardened workstation.

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Weekly penetration tests for agile software – Does it work well?

Agile software development models have become the de-facto standard. They are taught at universities and implemented in practice as far as possible. Anyone who doesn’t develop software using agile processes is on the verge, and already tilting towards that. At least that is how it seems. Consequently, the question is not whether the integration of […]

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A Years Worth of Active Directory Privilege Escalation

The end of the year is a good time to sit back and reflect for a moment on the past year. So let us take a look at the ten most common ways how I got Domain Admin privileges in our Active Directory penetration tests in 2021.

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