Identity Attack Catalog
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Golden Ticket Attack Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Feb 02, 2025
A Golden Ticket attack occurs when an attacker forges a Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) to gain full control over an Active Directory environment. By compromising the KRBTGT account, which signs all Kerberos tickets, the attacker can create fake tickets for any user and gain access to any resource within…
How to Defend Against Silver Ticket Attacks
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
- Feb 02, 2025
In the complex world of cybersecurity, Golden Ticket and Silver Ticket attacks stand out as two crafty methods targeting the Kerberos authentication system. Although both attacks exploit the same system, their approaches, objectives, and implications differ. Here’s what you need to know about Silver Ticket attacks, including how they differ…
Unconstrained Delegation Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Jan 26, 2025
Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes alliance, including CISA and the NSA, have urged organizations to strengthen security around Microsoft Active Directory (AD), a prime target for cyberattackers. The alliance’s recent report highlights more than a dozen tactics that threat actors use to exploit AD. Among these common techniques is…
AS-REP Roasting Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Jan 25, 2025
Authentication Server Response (AS-REP) Roasting enables attackers to request encrypted authentication responses for accounts in Active Directory that have Kerberos pre-authentication disabled. AS-REP Roasting is one of the Active Directory threats that cybersecurity agencies in the Five Eyes alliance warn about in the recent report, Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory…
LDAPNightmare Explained
- Eric Woodruff
- Jan 13, 2025
LDAPNightmare, recently published by SafeBreach Labs, is a proof-of-concept exploit of a known Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2024-49113). What is LDAPNightmare, how dangerous is this exploit, and how can you detect and defend against it? What is LDAPNightmare? The December 2024 Windows update - published by…
Zerologon Exploit Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Nov 15, 2024
In a Zerologon exploit, an attacker with access to a network takes advantage of a critical flaw in the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) to impersonate any computer, including a domain controller (DC). This flaw is known as Zerologon—a vulnerability that can give attackers full control over a domain. What is…
Kerberoasting Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Oct 11, 2024
A recent report from the cybersecurity agencies in the Five Eyes alliance, including CISA and the NSA, urges organizations to strengthen the security of their Microsoft Active Directory (AD) deployments—a prime target for cyber attackers. The report describes dozens of attack techniques that attackers use to breach AD, including Kerberoasting.…
DCSync Attack Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Oct 09, 2024
Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes alliance, including CISA and the NSA, are urging organizations to strengthen security around Microsoft Active Directory (AD), a prime target for cyberattackers. The alliance's recent report highlights more than a dozen tactics that threat actors use to exploit AD. Among these common techniques is…
