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Active Cyber Defence – Taking back control

by Umair Qamar | Oct 15, 2024 | Detection, Incident Response

Every good cybersecurity article needs a Sun Tzu quote, here is one lesser known quote from Sun Tzu to start us off. What Happened? Recently, JUMPSEC’s Detection and Response Team (DART) caught a Red Team inside one of our MxDR clients' networks using a honeypot server. The honeypot server was set up using Thinkst Applied Research’s project called OpenCanary. This open-source project from Thinkst emulates different network protocols and when interacted with, creates an alert providing information to the defensive team, such as the source of the request. An unfair advantage We believe all organisations should be able to incrementally build on their level of security, year-on-year. This means leaving generic behind and focusing on the specific threats you face, and outcomes you need to be secure from them. To do this, we draw on the expertise and attacker mindset of our...

NTLM Relaying – Making the Old New Again

I am old enough to remember that it was not always possible to get domain admin within the first hour of a test via Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) misconfigurations...

Building Forensic Expertise: A Two-Part Guide to Investigating a Malicious USB Device (Part 2)

In this part 2, we'll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up and conducting a Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) investigation using a virtual...

Building Forensic Expertise: A Two-Part Guide to Investigating a Malicious USB Device (Part 1)

by Emilia Chau, Marin Gheorge, Muhammad Jawad | Aug 28, 2024 | Forensics, Incident Response

JUMPSEC believes heavily in learning and developing through real world experience. The incident described in this blog post presented a fantastic opportunity for 3 junior team members to learn first hand how to conduct, report and respond to an incident investigation. This blog post is split into two parts: Part I focuses on the prerequisites and preparation work done before kicking off the...

Adversary at the Door – Initial Access and what’s currently on the menu

by Patryk Zajdel | Aug 20, 2024 | Initial Access, Red Teaming

Based on the data from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024, phishing with malicious links or malware remains the most common initial access vector, followed by impersonation. The challenge with impersonation attacks is that current technology often struggles to accurately determine the purpose of a website. Although checks on domain maturity, reputation, categorization, and certificates are...

SSH Tunnelling to Punch Through Corporate Firewalls – Updated take on one of the oldest LOLBINs

by Sunny Chau | Aug 13, 2024 | Adversary Infrastructure, Initial Access, Red Teaming

In my formative days of learning network hacking, SSH tunnelling was amongst the first tunnelling techniques that I learnt. I still remember trying to repeatedly decode my notes and diagrams on the rather cumbersome syntax of single port forwarding with the -L and -R flags, which at the time was taught as “the way to do it”. If your foothold is (luckily) a Linux server, then you’re blessed with...

How to Handle Development Projects in a Pentest Company

by Bjoern Schwabe | Aug 6, 2024 | Jumpsec, Research

If you are a pentester you probably never really think about programming. Instead you are testing what others have developed. However, every now and then a quick python or bash script is needed to exploit some stuff you have found, or automate a certain process you are using. Things become interesting when you are in a penetration testing company that has many strong penetration testers and...

How Cloud Migration is Affecting AppSec – A Red Teamer’s Perspective

by Max Corbridge | Jul 4, 2024 | Application Security, Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, Cloud Red Team, Initial Access, Jumpsec, Red Teaming

Introduction I’ve recently spoken at several conferences about the changes that are underway within red teaming as a result of cloud migration. My team and I have been delivering majority cloud red team work over the last year and the differences are becoming more apparent by the day. One point I’ve mentioned as ‘controversial’ at several of these events is that cloud migration has actually made...

Putting the C2 in C2loudflare

by David Kennedy | Jun 28, 2024 | Adversary Infrastructure, Red Teaming

tl;dr How to bring up an entire C2 infrastructure with all your tooling and their corresponding redirectors within 5 minutes with the help of Azure Snapshots, Cloudflare and Tmux Resurrect. Every so often I seem to stumble across various ideas, that when combined, massively improve my overall productivity at work. Most of these ideas on their own are nothing new, but when used in tandem can...

Bullet Proofing Your Email Gateway

by Patryk Zajdel | Jun 19, 2024 | Hardening, Mail Security, network

In this labs post, I will introduce you to modern security controls that are currently used (but not always correctly) by the vast majority of enterprises, and hopefully by the end of this write-up, the topic will become a little clearer and the concepts will become easier to grasp. In today’s world of spammers, intruders, and fake emails, having a robust setup for your email deliveries is...

What’s in a Name? Writing custom DNS tunnelling protocol, exploiting unexpected AWS Lambda misconfiguration – in a web app Pen test (Part 2)

by Sunny Chau | Jun 13, 2024 | burpsuite, Exploitation, network, Research, Vulnerability

In Part 1 of the series we looked at how an AWS Lambda-powered feature was exploited in a web app penetration test initially leading to RCE and further on with out-of-band data exfiltration via DNS. Though the exact mechanism of achieving remote-code execution with Python was not discussed, we went in depth in how to return data as a result of the code being executed. Initially, with...

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Active Cyber Defence – Taking back control

NTLM Relaying – Making the Old New Again

Building Forensic Expertise: A Two-Part Guide to Investigating a Malicious USB Device (Part 2)

Building Forensic Expertise: A Two-Part Guide to Investigating a Malicious USB Device (Part 1)

Adversary at the Door – Initial Access and what’s currently on the menu

SSH Tunnelling to Punch Through Corporate Firewalls – Updated take on one of the oldest LOLBINs

How to Handle Development Projects in a Pentest Company

Putting the C2 in C2loudflare

Bullet Proofing Your Email Gateway

What’s in a Name? Writing custom DNS tunnelling protocol, exploiting unexpected AWS Lambda misconfiguration – in a web app Pen test (Part 2)

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