Several readers responded to my previous post on pass-the-hash attacks, asking if Kerberos authentication versus LANManager, NTLM, or NTLMv2 was an effective defense. It’s a good question ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published this week for a new attack technique that can bypass the Kerberos authentication protocol in Windows environments and let intruders access ...

Windows Server 2025 flaw allows any user with dMSA write permissions to escalate privileges and compromise AD.

Pass-the-ticket attacks use stolen Kerberos tickets to authenticate resources in the environment. Attackers can exploit authentication using this attack to move through an Active Directory ...

Kerberos has several important advantages. For example, it: is very secure, preventing various types of intrusion attacks uses "tickets" that can be securely presented by a client or a service on ...

Kerberos, the popular authentication protocol ... security experts said. MIT said such an attack was possible but “highly improbable.” The third bug affects the “krb5_recvauth()” function ...

These changes help force the authentication to Negotiate:Kerberos. NTLM relay attacks, especially those that can take over domains, can have devastating impact across Windows enterprise ...

The system, being the Kerberos client, will reach out to the KDC to request a TGT. If this message is actually processed and answered by the real KDC, the attack will not work, because the KDC ...

Kerberos uses symmetric encryption of the timestamp ... It provides "authenticator uniqueness" and protects against replay attacks. Without the authenticator, a hacker could grab a ticket off ...

The malware regularly checks for new instructions, allowing attackers to execute commands, exfiltrate data, manipulate user tokens and conduct Kerberos attacks. Thomas Richards, principal consultant ...