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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By : Johann Rehberger
Book Image

Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By: Johann Rehberger

Overview of this book

It's now more important than ever for organizations to be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches. Preventive measures alone are not enough for dealing with adversaries. A well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program is required. This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and homefield advantage opportunities to boost security. The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you'll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you'll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build, manage, and measure a red team program effectively and be well-versed with the fundamental operational techniques required to enhance your existing skills.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Embracing the Red
6
Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Chapter 8

  1. There are multiple ways an adversary might try to gain access to cookies, including, but not limited to, the following:

    1. Using Chrome's remote debugging capabilities

    2. Debugging the process memory of a process

    3. Accessing the cookies on the hard drive directly

    4. Using the tracing features of an operating system

  2. The name of the go-to debugger on macOS is LLDB.
  3. The osascript Apple utility can be used on macOS to run automated scripts.
  4. Rootless on macOS refers to the security enhancements that prevent even the superuser (root) from modifying or tampering with critical operating system resources. This is often referred to as System Integrity Protection.