Lateral Movement

Linux Lateral Movement: Attack Techniques and How to Detect Them

A complete guide to Linux lateral movement — SSH pivoting, ssh-agent hijacking, credential harvesting, port forwarding, and NFS abuse. Includes auditd rules, Sigma, Wazuh, and Sentinel KQL detections.

Pass-the-Hash & Pass-the-Ticket: How Attackers Move Laterally — and How to Catch Them

A practitioner's guide to PtH and PtT attacks: how they work, what tools attackers use, what evidence they leave behind, and how to build detections with Sigma and Wazuh.

Starkiller: Inside Empire's C2 GUI — Red Team Playbook and Blue Team Detection

A technical deep dive into Starkiller and PowerShell Empire — how red teams deploy and operate it, and exactly how defenders can detect and disrupt it.

AD Attack Chains: From Initial Access to Domain Admin

A complete purple team walkthrough of Active Directory attack chains — from initial foothold through Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Golden Tickets to full domain compromise, with detection rules for every technique.

The Digital Parasite: How Attacker Tradecraft Evolved in 2026

80% of top MITRE ATT&CK techniques now focus on evasion and persistence. Attackers abandoned smash-and-grab for long-term parasitic operations in networks.

Zero Trust vs. Real Attacks: Which Threats Does It Actually Stop?

Discover which real-world cyberattacks Zero Trust prevents—and which ones it doesn't. Analyzed through 2024-2025 breach data including ransomware campaigns, insider threats, supply chain compromises, and social engineering attacks.