The Fake Domain Controller You Didn’t See Coming: Detecting DCShadow Attacks Using Trellix NDR

The Fake Domain Controller You Didn’t See Coming: Detecting DCShadow Attacks Using Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Chao Sun · December 17, 2025 Executive summary DCShadow is a covert post-exploitation technique that enables an attacker to impersonate a domain controller and make unauthorized,...

samba: Netlogon elevation of privilege vulnerability (Zerologon)

A flaw was found in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol MS-NRPC, where it reuses a known, static, zero-value initialization vector IV in AES-CFB8 mode. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate a domain-joined computer, including a domain controller, and possibly obta...