Penetration testing and red teaming: The differences and reasons why both are important to your business

Penetration testing, also known as ethical hacking, white-hat hacking, or pen testing, is one important form of security assessment that tests people, process, and technology to find security vulnerabilities that a potential attacker could exploit. Red teaming is a more targeted approach that...

How Extended Security Posture Management Optimizes Your Security Stack

As a CISO, one of the most challenging questions to answer is "How well are we protected right now?" Between the acceleration of hackers' offensive capabilities and the dynamic nature of information networks, a drift in the security posture is unavoidable and needs to be continuously compensated...

GC2 - A Command And Control Application That Allows An Attacker To Execute Commands On The Target Machine Using Google Sheet And Exfiltrate Data Using Google Drive

GC2 Google Command and Control is a Command and Control application that allows an attacker to execute commands on the target machine using Google Sheet and exfiltrates data using Google Drive. Why This program has been developed in order to provide a command and control that does not require any...

FIN7 Lures Unwitting Security Pros to Carry Out Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak backdoor malware, FIN7, has hit upon a genius idea for maximizing profit from ransomware: Hire real pen-testers to do some of their dirty work instead of striking partnerships with other criminals. According to a report from Gemini...

TA551 Shifts Tactics to Install Sliver Red-Teaming Tool

The criminal threat group known as TA551 has added the Sliver red-teaming tool to its bag of tracks – a move that may signal ramped up ransomware attacks ahead, researchers said. According to Proofpoint researchers, TA551 aka Shathak has been mounting cyberattacks that start with email thread...

Ntlm_Theft - A Tool For Generating Multiple Types Of NTLMv2 Hash Theft Files

A tool for generating multiple types of NTLMv2 hash theft files. ntlmtheft is an Open Source Python3 Tool that generates 21 different types of hash theft documents. These can be used for phishing when either the target allows smb traffic outside their network, or if you are already inside the...

PickleC2 - A Post-Exploitation And Lateral Movements Framework

PickleC2 is a post-exploitation and lateral movements framework. Documentation ReadTheDocs Overview PickleC2 is a simple C2 framework written in python3 used to help the community in Penetration Testers in their red teaming engagements. PickleC2 has the ability to import your own PowerShell modul...

The value of regulator-driven red teaming: CBEST

How do we in the UK avoid something like the Colonial Oil Pipeline ransomware attack happening? How would you feel if your mobile phone suddenly stopped working altogether? What if ambulances couldn’t respond to 999 emergency calls? What if the mechanism of government suddenly ground to a halt? T...

Microsoft at Black Hat 2021: Sessions, bug bounty updates, product news, and more

Black Hat USA 2021 is about understanding the needs of security professionals and meeting you where you are. With last year’s pandemic-related firefighting still fresh in our minds, this year’s event will provide a welcome respite to learn about cutting-edge security solutions, build our skillset...

Awesome-Red-Teaming

This is an offensive tool for Red Teaming. It is a list of resources for anyone wishing to learn about Red Teaming, including initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, defense evasion, credential access, discovery, lateral movement, collection, exfiltration, command and contro...

Injector - Complete Arsenal Of Memory Injection And Other Techniques For Red-Teaming In Windows

Complete Arsenal of Memory injection and other techniques for red-teaming in Windows What does Injector do? Process injection support for shellcode located at remote server as well as local storage. Just specify the shellcode file and it will do the rest. It will by default inject into notepad.ex...

Mythic - A Collaborative, Multi-Platform, Red Teaming Framework

A cross-platform, post-exploit, red teaming framework built with python3, docker, docker-compose, and a web browser UI. It's designed to provide a collaborative and user friendly interface for operators, managers, and reporting throughout red teaming. Details Check out a series of YouTube videos...

Red Teaming. Practice what you preach

We carry out plenty of Red Teaming for customers. As a CBEST, STAR-FS and GBEST accredited supplier, our Red Team work with many large regulated organisations every day of the week. We frequently remind our clients how a simulated attack can be one of the best ways to assess prevention, detection...

Attack Surface Analysis Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming

Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming This is the third and final installment in our 2021 series around attack surface analysis. In part 1 I offered a description and the value and challenge of vulnerability assessment. Part 2 explored the why and how of conducting penetration testing and gave some tips...

DivideAndScan - Divide Full Port Scan Results And Use It For Targeted Nmap Runs

DivideEt Impera And Scan and also merge the scan results D ivideA ndS can is used to efficiently automate port scanning routine by splitting it into 3 phases: 1. Discover open ports for a bunch of targets. 2. Run Nmap individually for each target with version grabbing and NSE actions. 3. Merge th...

K8tools

It is an offensive tool for web application exploitation. The repository, K8tools, contains a collection of tools for various purposes, including internal penetration, privilege escalation, remote overflow, vulnerability exploitation, scanning, password cracking, and anti-kill tools. The primary...

Hacking Operational Technology for Defense: Lessons Learned From OT Red Teaming Smart Meter Control Infrastructure

High-profile security incidents in the past decade have brought increased scrutiny to cyber security for operational technology OT. However, there is a continued perception across critical infrastructure organizations that OT networks are isolated from public networks—such as the Internet. In...

M-Trends 2021: A View From the Front Lines

We are thrilled to launch M-Trends 2021, the 12th edition of our annual FireEye Mandiant publication. The past year has been unique, as we witnessed an unprecedented combination of global events. Business operations shifted in response to the worldwide pandemic and threat actors continued to...

Redcloud - Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployement Using Docker

Redcloud is a powerful and user-friendly toolbox for deploying a fully featured Red Team Infrastructure using Docker. Harness the cloud's speed for your tools. Deploys in minutes. Use and manage it with its polished web interface. Ideal for your penetration tests, shooting ranges, red teaming and...

Awesome-Red-Teaming

This is a list of resources for Red Teaming, a list that will be updated regularly with the latest adversarial tactics and techniques based on the Mitre ATT&CK framework. The list covers various topics such as Initial Access, Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Defense Evasion, Credenti...