Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation

Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · August 18, 2026 Executive Summary While attackers continuously cycle through new tooling, their underlying techniques remain remarkably consistent. Credential theft from...

Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation

Stitching the Kill Chain: Detecting NTDS.dit Exfiltration with Trellix Helix Correlation By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · August 18, 2026 Executive Summary While attackers continuously cycle through new tooling, their underlying techniques remain remarkably consistent. Credential theft from...

Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack

Getting Roasted? Trellix Helix sees through AS-REP Attack By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · March 17, 2026 Executive summary Threat actors regularly target Active Directory environments, continuously refining their toolsets and modifying attack frameworks to bypass security controls. However...

The Crown Jewels of Active Directory: How Trellix Helix Detects NTDS.dit Theft

The Crown Jewels of Active Directory: How Trellix Helix Detects NTDS.dit Theft By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · February 2, 2026 Executive summary Active Directory serves as the central repository for an organization's authentication infrastructure. Malicious actors frequently focus on...

How Trellix Helix detects AS-REP Roasting in Active Directory

How Trellix Helix detects AS-REP Roasting in Active Directory By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · November 13, 2025 Executive Summary Adversaries use AS-REP Roasting to extract and crack password hashes from Active Directory AD accounts with Kerberos preauthentication disabled, a...

How Trellix Helix detects AS-REP Roasting in Active Directory

How Trellix Helix detects AS-REP Roasting in Active Directory By Adithya Chandra and Maulik Maheta · November 13, 2025 Executive Summary Adversaries use AS-REP Roasting to extract and crack password hashes from Active Directory AD accounts with Kerberos preauthentication disabled, a...

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect By Maulik Maheta and Adithya Chandra · July 17, 2025 Executive summary This blog marks the third installment in our series on detecting and visualizing lateral movement attacks with Trellix Helix Connect. A lateral...

Midnight Blizzard Attack Detection in Trellix Helix

Midnight Blizzard Attack Detection in Trellix Helix By Ian Shefferman · March 18, 2024 On January 25, 2024, Microsoft reported a breach of their systems by the Russian APT group Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear. The attackers performed a password spray, compromised a Microsoft...

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect - Part 2

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect - Part 2 By Maulik Maheta · May 21, 2023 This blog was also written by Chintan Shah Executive summary In the part 1 of this series we discussed in depth about the known Lateral movement attacks like abusing weak service...