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ADCS: Playing with ESC4

Log4j Explainer: Protect Your Systems From Log4j 2 Vulnerability

Advisory on the Apache Log4j Library Vulnerability

Shadow Credentials: Workstation Takeover Edition

Wire Fraud Alert: Business Email Compromise (BEC) on the Rise

Active Directory Certificates and PKINIT are hot topics these days and our operators at Fortalice have been doing their best to stay on top of the new research and tools. My previous blog touched on PyWhisker and referenced one of its resources available on https://thehacker.recipes. While reading through the documentation there, a note near the bottom caught my eye, which stated: User objects can't edit their own msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute while computer objects can.

Kyle Macken

PKINIT FTW - Chaining Shadow Credentials and ADCS Template Abuse

MacOS password recovery on a disk with FileVault 2 encryption

On a recent red team engagement, our team was tasked with focusing on Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) exploitation. The objective was to identify certificate template misconfigurations and potentially achieve privilege escalation by abusing them. The concepts and attacks used were based around the work and whitepaper by Will Shroeder (@harmj0y) and Lee Christensen (@tifkin_).

Disinformation, Misinformation and Manipulation Campaigns: A How to Guide for Creating an Organizational Incident Response Playbook and Managing Reputational Risk

Elevating with NTLMv1 and the Printer Bug

Demystifying Penetration Testing Pricing

Kyle Macken

A How to Guide for Creating an Organizational Incident Response Playbook and Managing Reputational Risk

Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Breach: How to Protect Your Assets

Fortalice Client Advisory: Unemployment Fraud

Hiding Behind the Front Door

Red Team

Domain fronting is a generic technique based on HTTPS that allows an actor to hide the true destination of a communication from network equipment in the path. While domain fronting has been used in offensive engagements for several years now, the number of frontable cloud services continues to dwindle. Today, Fortalice is publicly adding another service to that list: Azure Front Door.

Advisory: HAFNIUM Threat Activity and Microsoft Exchange

In the News: US Federal Data Breach Legislation

Fortalice's Threat and Incident Response Team is providing this advisory video to partners on recent developments associated with the HAFNIUM Threat Activity and Microsoft Exchange. The information is current as of March 2021.

Mimecast Advisory

Fortalice Advisory on SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise

The notification provided to Mimecast from Microsoft indicated that several certificates issued by Mimecast had been compromised by a sophisticated threat actor.

Interview with an Expert: OCO Director Matt Shirley

If your organization currently uses SolarWinds Orion products (versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1 HF1), we recommend disconnecting all affected devices immediately.

Election Security and Cybersecurity Best Practices

Fortalice Director of Offensive Cybersecurity Operations (OCO) Matt Shirley talks the red team's perspective on addressing cyber threats on behalf of our clients.

Interview with an Expert: Director of Custom Solutions Alise Brzezinski

Fortalice CEO & Founder Theresa Payton spoke to Julie Mason about cybersecurity - Host of the Press Pool on SiriusXM - following the historic 2020 election.

Fortalice Interview with an Expert: CEO Theresa Payton

Fortalice Director of Custom Solutions Alise Brzezinski talks third-party risk management in the COVID-19 era.

What is Fortified Security?

Fortalice CEO & Founder Theresa Payton discusses the Fortalice difference and her new book, Manipulated Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth.