Attack and Defend Active Directory

Breaching AD

Active Directory (AD) is used by approximately 90% of the Global Fortune 1000 companies. If an organisation's estate uses Microsoft Windows, you are almost guaranteed to find AD. Microsoft AD is the dominant suite used to…

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Attacking Active Directory

AD Fundamentals

Ransomware operators have been increasingly targeting Active Directory as a key part of their attack paths. The Conti Ransomware which has been used in more than 400 attacks around the world has been shown to leverage recent critical…

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Attacking Active Directory

GOAD v2 Installation

Game Of Active Directory The following steps explain the procedure to setup the GOADv2 LAB environment to pentest Active Directory. Warning This lab is extremely vulnerable, do not reuse recipe to build your environment and do not…

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Attacking Active Directory Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS)

Overview AD DS acts as a catalog for all objects in a network (users, groups, machines, printers, etc.). Some objects, such as users and machines, are security principals, meaning they can be authenticated and assigned privileges.…

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DEFEND AD Security LEARNING PATHS

Active Directory Enumeration with PowerView

Complete Active Directory Enumeration Using PowerView PowerView is a powerful PowerShell tool designed to perform detailed enumeration of Active Directory (AD) environments. It is widely used by penetration testers, red teamers, and security professionals to gather…

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