2026-06

Active Directory

Kerberoasting: The Complete Guide to Mechanics, Attack, and Defense

A complete guide to Kerberoasting: how SPNs and TGS-REP enable offline cracking, plus detection and defense.
Active Directory

AS-REP Roasting: Abusing Accounts Without Kerberos Pre-Authentication

How attackers extract and crack Kerberos AS-REP hashes from accounts with pre-authentication disabled, and how blue teams defend.
Active Directory

DCSync Attack and Defense: Abusing Directory Replication Rights

How DCSync abuses AD replication rights via DRSUAPI to dump credentials, and how blue teams can detect and stop it.
Active Directory

NTLM Relay Attacks in Practice: Hands-On with ntlmrelayx

A practical walkthrough of NTLM relay attacks with Responder and ntlmrelayx, covering SMB and LDAP relay plus blue-team defenses.
Active Directory

Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket in Practicew

A hands-on guide to NTLM Pass-the-Hash and Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket attacks, with practical tooling and Blue Team defenses.
Active Directory

Golden Ticket Attacks: Abusing krbtgt for Domain Persistence

How attackers forge Kerberos TGTs with the krbtgt hash to gain persistent domain dominance, and how blue teams detect and defend.