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SpecterOps @specterops.io · Aug 11

The AD CS security landscape keeps evolving, and so does our tooling. 🛠️

Valdemar Carøe drops info on Certify 2.0, including a suite of new capabilities and refined usability improvements. ghst.ly/45IrBxI

Certify 2.0 - SpecterOps

Certify 2.0 features a suite of new capabilities and usability enhancements. This blogpost introduces changes and features additions.

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SpecterOps @specterops.io · Jul 31

Red teamers know the drill: endless file churning, hunting for passwords & tokens. 🔍

Meet DeepPass2, our new secret scanning tool that goes beyond structured tokens to catch those tricky free-form passwords too. Read Neeraj Gupta's blog post for more. ghst.ly/40HLNNA

What’s Your Secret?: Secret Scanning by DeepPass2 - SpecterOps

Discover DeepPass2 - a secret scanning tool combining BERT-based model and LLMs to detect free-form passwords, and other structured tokens and secrets with high accuracy.

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hotnops @hotnops.bsky.social · Jul 31

The best creds are the ones you simply ask for =)
specterops.io/blog/2025/07...

hotnops @hotnops.bsky.social · Jul 30

Finally putting out my research from this spring. "Imitune" coming in soon to support the POC
specterops.io/blog/2025/07...

Entra Connect Attacker Tradecraft: Part 3 - SpecterOps

How Entra Connect and Intune can be abused via userCertificate hijacking to bypass conditional access and compromise hybrid domains

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hotnops @hotnops.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you're a #bloodhound user, JD's bloodhound operator is invaluable. Now with opengraph cmdlets!
github.com/SadProcessor...

GitHub - SadProcessor/BloodHoundOperator: BloodHound PowerShell client

BloodHound PowerShell client. Contribute to SadProcessor/BloodHoundOperator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nathan McNulty @nathanmcnulty.com · Jul 24

Looks like the Entra QR code authentication method is going GA 🥳

They've also added some great guidance on suppressing the camera permission prompt for iOS :)

learn.microsoft.com/...

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Steve Syfuhs @syfuhs.net · Jul 13

Part 8053 of eleventy billion on our path to killing NTLM: way way way way way better auditing.

support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...

Overview of NTLM auditing enhancements in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 - Microsoft Support

Summary of new auditing features and deployment details

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Jonas Bülow Knudsen @jonas-bk.bsky.social · Jun 25

I publish two blog posts today! 📝🐫

First dives into how we're improving the way BloodHound models attack paths through AD trusts: specterops.io/blog/2025/06...

Second covers an attack technique I came across while exploring AD trust abuse: specterops.io/blog/2025/06...

Hope you enjoy the read 🥳

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: New AD Trusts Attack Paths in BloodHound - SpecterOps

The ability of an attacker controlling one domain to compromise another through an Active Directory (AD) trust depends on the trust type and configuration. To better map these relationships and make i...

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XPN @xpnsec.com · Jun 18

My second post for the month is now live 🎉

SpecterOps @specterops.io · Jun 18

Get the scoop on the incoming Administrator Protection for Windows 11.

@xpnsec.com covers the architecture, access controls, and why some legacy UAC bypass techniques remain effective in his latest blog post. ghst.ly/44mw5JM

Administrator Protection Review - SpecterOps

Microsoft will be introducing Administrator Protection into Windows 11. This post explores security considerations for red teamers.

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hotnops @hotnops.bsky.social · Jun 9

New tricks, same impact
posts.specterops.io/update-dumpi...

Update: Dumping Entra Connect Sync Credentials

Recently, Microsoft changed the way the Entra Connect Connect Sync agent authenticates to Entra ID. These changes affect attacker tradecraft, as we can no longer export the sync account credentials…

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Nick Frichette @frichetten.com · Jun 2

A little over a year ago I published research on how you could leverage non-production AWS API endpoints to enumerate permissions without logging to CloudTrail. A year later...I'm still finding them. Red Teamers, these can be super useful and really up your game!

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · May 22

We’re about to take C# to the next level!

#dotnet #csharp

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SpecterOps @specterops.io · May 19

Did you miss #SOCON2025? Did you have a favorite talk you'd like to rewatch?

🎥 All presentations from SO-CON 2025 are now live at ghst.ly/socon25-talks.

💻 Slides for each talk are available at ghst.ly/socon25-slides.

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Fabian Bader @fabian.bader.cloud · May 2

Application Based Authentication on Microsoft Entra Connect Sync is near. With this change you will be able to use a TPM backed certificate in Entra Connect Sync for authentication.

This is a welcome change to prevent the compromise of this high privileged account.

#Entra #Certificate

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Anthony J. Fontanez @ajf8729.com · Apr 30

Did you know you can send LAPS passwords to Entra on Server OS? Neither did @adamgrosstx.bsky.social or I until yesterday! Just need to hybrid join the server(s) and set the GPO to backup to "AAD"! Neat!

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hotnops @hotnops.bsky.social · Apr 25

Can you use the on-behalf-of flow to bypass conditional access policies? If the middleware app satisfies conditional access, can it exchange an access token to an otherwise blocked backend resource? It turns out... no. No it can't. The CAP will kick in when the middleware app uses the OBO flow.

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Fabian Bader @fabian.bader.cloud · Jan 6

A new dedicated resource application to enable Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID sync using Microsoft Entra Connect Sync or Cloud Sync is coming 😱

In the announcement the mentioned reason is "upcoming security hardening"...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 Join the #PeoplesMovement this Saturday #April19 for a National Day of Action!

Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and more.

Hundreds of events are already listed at www.FiftyFifty.one/events.

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SpecterOps @specterops.io · Apr 18

Understanding Windows access tokens could be your best defense. At @cackalackycon.bsky.social, @atomicchonk.bsky.social will be peeling back the layers on potato exploits that threat actors use for privilege escalation.

Check out the schedule to learn more ➡️ ghst.ly/4jzjlnI

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Garrett @unsignedsh0rt.bsky.social · Apr 11

Had some fun with PDQ deploy/inventory credential decryption and wrote about it here: unsigned-sh0rt.net/posts/pdq_cr... thanks to
@dru1d.bsky.social for writing a BOF out of the POC

tl;dr get admin on PDQ box, decrypt privileged creds

Decrypting PDQ credentials | unsigned_sh0rt's blog

Walkthrough of how PDQ credentials encrypts service credentials

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Max Andreacchi @atomicchonk.bsky.social · Apr 7

Everybody’s using AI assistants and tools these days, but do most of us understand how our text-based input is being interpreted and processed? Check out my latest blog post for a basic intro to text interpretation by AI assistants. www.corgi-Corp.com/post/tokeniz...

Tokenizing the Sandwich Debate: How NLP Models Weigh In on Hot Dogs

Get the gist for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and how tokenization plays a factor

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SpecterOps @specterops.io · Apr 8

Think NTLM relay is a solved problem? Think again.

Relay attacks are more complicated than many people realize. Check out this deep dive from Elad Shamir on NTLM relay attacks & the new edges we recently added to BloodHound. ghst.ly/4lv3E31

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Matt Creel @tw1sm.bsky.social · Apr 7

Nothing new, but formalized some operator notes on Entra ID/Azure tradecraft I've found to be exceptionally useful on ops. Overlooked this myself for quite some time and thought others in the same boat might find it worth a read! 📖

medium.com/specter-ops-...

An Operator’s Guide to Device-Joined Hosts and the PRT Cookie

Introduction

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XPN @xpnsec.com · Apr 6

1 year anniversary at SpecterOps, so many personal and professional achievements in a short space of time. My advice for anyone getting into this field, try and make sure that you work companies and colleagues that push you beyond your comfort level. \o/

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SpecterOps @specterops.io · Mar 30

We are excited to see everyone at #SOCON2025 tomorrow! 🙌

Get the details on everything you need to know before arriving at the conference: specterops.io/so-con

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