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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)
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Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Leveraging the blue team's endpoint protection as C2

Endpoint protection solutions such as Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, and so forth commonly provide a built-in command and control infrastructure. This can be misused by an adversary. The red team does not even have to maintain or run their own infrastructure. The objective of an operation might be to gain administrative access to the portal of these systems.

Since the portals are commonly web-based, tactics such as pass the cookie might be performed by adversaries after compromising blue team members. Once they have access, there are features such as Go Live that an adversary can leverage to gain administrative access to any host in the organization running the agent.

Additionally, organizations have to worry about malicious insiders who might misuse such features.

Does the blue team and SOC have proper detections and monitoring in place to catch compromise or misuse? Who watches the watchers? Requiring rigorous monitoring...