A lengthy Red Team engagement is coming. What should the defense do if they catch the offense? Reimage systems? Notify and allow? What is the course of action that allows the engagement to proceed and deliver maximum value to the organization? These can be difficult questions to answer, but ones that companies procuring these tests…
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In this post, I am going to go over how to find the specific Anti-Virus signature using manual testing and then show techniques that can be used to bypass them. I am a big fan of LOLBins so we are going to focus on the binary Regsvr32, which is a known binary that can be…
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NOTE: On October 17th, 2018 Oracle released a patch for this vulnerability as several others: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html There are times when finding a 0day in a major-branded product like Oracle takes months of research, and there are times when it just jumps off the screen and you think to yourself, ‘There’s no possible way that is…
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Traditional pentesting is evolving as many companies are rapidly maturing their information security programs. Additionally, improvements in operating system hardening, endpoint protection agents, and security appliances are raising the bar for successful compromise and lateral movement. If you talk with pentesters across the industry, you will hear more and more positive stories about client security…
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There’s been a radical shift in the assessment industry over the last couple of years. We’ve all probably heard that Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, User and Entity Behavioral Analysis, Analytics, Detection and Response tools, etc., are advancing and improving defensive postures. According to Gartner, annual spending on defensive security technology will exceed $82 Billion dollars…
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