Credential Access

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.
Windows Privesc

Dumping LSASS Memory: Techniques and Detection Evasion

A practical guide to dumping LSASS memory with comsvcs.dll, procdump, and nanodump, plus parsing with pypykatz and blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Abusing SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege for Windows Privilege Escalation

How attackers abuse SeBackupPrivilege/SeRestorePrivilege to dump SAM, SYSTEM, and ntds.dit, plus blue-team detection and defense.