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Nicholas Anastasi

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Creating a CVE Trends Command Line Tool

How to create a CVE Trends Command Line Tool and be notified in Slack via Webhooks.

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Password spraying and MFA bypasses in the modern security landscape

Any offensive security operator will tell you that guessing employee credentials is key to compromising your customer’s network – and therefore highlighting vulnerabilities – during a cyber-security engagement. The… read more →

Crossing the Log4j Horizon - A Vulnerability With No Return

A vulnerability was recently disclosed for the Java logging library, Log4j. The vulnerability is wide-reaching and affects both open-source projects and enterprise software. VMWare announced shortly after the release of… read more →

Another Log4j on the fire: Unifi

By now, you’re probably well aware of a recently disclosed vulnerability for the Java logging library, Log4j. The vulnerability is wide-reaching and affects Ubiquiti's Unifi Network Application. In this article, we’re… read more →

How to exploit Log4j vulnerabilities in VMWare vCenter

A vulnerability was recently disclosed for the Java logging library, Log4j. The vulnerability is wide-reaching and affects both open source projects and enterprise software, meaning we need to understand how to ID and… read more →

Never stop frontin: How to quickly setup a redirector and transparent reverse proxy

Protecting your infrastructure from prying eyes is an important part of landing a phish and maintaining access to a client’s network. The process of setting up redirectors and reverse proxies has traditionally been… read more →

The ultimate tag team: PetitPotam and ADCS pwnage from Linux

PetitPotam and ADCS exploitation are nothing short of amazing. Exploitation is a breeze and results in full domain admin access. With these two TTPs, an attacker can hop on a network, exploit the vulnerability, do some… read more →

How to limit cleartext password storage and fix the issue in your organization

The key to our engagements often and unfortunately involve the discovery of credentials on internal network file shares. We’re going to show you how we find cleartext password storage problems and how to address them. read more →

Never had a bad day phishing. How to set up GoPhish to evade security controls.

I’m going to quickly go through the process of setting up GoPhish and show you how we evade defenders to increase the success rate of our phishing campaigns. read more →

What the heck is an attack surface … and why do I need to protect it?

Maybe you’ve heard your IT security team talking about attack surfaces? Or, maybe the term has come up during a virtual conference or in your newsfeed. It’s important to take a step back and understand what an attack… read more →

Reliable Username Enumeration: A step-by-step guide

Collecting and validating an organization’s employee base is critical for any successful offensive information security operation. read more →

Launching a pentest: How to discover related DNS records

When starting a penetration test, we first try to discover domains associated with our target apex domain. To help you navigate this part of the process, we’re going to detail it, highlighting tips and tricks for… read more →

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