Security Researcher @NetSPI | PowerUpSQL Author

Minneapolis
Joined July 2010
Scott Sutherland retweeted
Sad you missed @OffensiveAIcon? No sweat. Catch the Shane and Max show TOMORROW at lunchtime as they dig into the #ScopeBench paper results. Plus, learn how to contribute to the community benchmark for scope adherence in offensive security. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Contribute a task! Based on standard @harborframework format
🧵 [1/3] Agents can hack. What's holding them back is trust: will they stay in scope? Today we're releasing ScopeBench, a methodology and community benchmark that evaluates how well agents adhere to scope in real offensive security workflows across web, Windows Active Directory, and cloud.
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UnifiedThreatHunting is a practical framework for building structured threat hunts instead of just running random SIEM queries. It covers hypothesis driven hunting, telemetry validation, feasibility checks, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, hunt execution, detection handoff, documentation, and automation/AI. Github:- github.com/sims718718/Unifie…
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Added more training to the AI-CTF (it won't be fast but you can run this on a halfway decent laptop) - github.com/mubix/ai-ctf It teaches prompt injection and other paths prompt injection can take. All the answers are in the repo so it isn't about getting the flags but learning.
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Introducing CiliumHound, a new BloodHound OpenGraph extension from @Sw4mp_f0x! Feed it your Cilium network policies (YAML/JSON), get back a searchable graph scoped to each K8s namespace. Check it out ⤵️ ghst.ly/4hdLHEQ
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Hi Team, We have been working on the OWASP MCP Security Taxonomy an open, vendor-neutral framework designed to create a common language for MCP security risk 📷 github.com/OWASP/MCP-Taxonom… Please feel free to raise a GitHub issue, submit a pull request, or share your comments @owasp
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Some really big news coming from @NetSPI and @synack today!
We are thrilled to announce that NetSPI and @synack have entered into a definitive agreement to merge & form the industry’s leading offensive cybersecurity platform. Full announcement: ow.ly/FIOC50ZIt9o #NetSPI #Synack #OffensiveSecurity   #ContinuousTesting
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Our Troopers 26 talk "Modern Adventures in Azure Privilege Escalation" is now online. Thomas and I have an associated blog and resources in the works, so there will be more from us soon. Thanks again to @WEareTROOPERS. This was a fantastic experience! youtube.com/watch?v=GaOi825d…
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CVE-2026-63030 & CVE-2026-60137 WordPress Core Pre-Authentication RCE. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to chain an unauthenticated WordPress REST API flaw with a SQL injection bug to fully take over sites running Core 6.9.0–6.9.4 or 7.0.0–7.0.1: ow.ly/jZHV50Zq9x8
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A new Azure VM command execution method dropping from @Thomasbyrne__ Technically a variation on the other Extension-based methods (Custom Script, DSC, etc.), but this one uses the Chef extension. Some really awesome work from Thomas on this one. netspi.com/blog/technical-bl…
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Here are the slides from our @WEareTROOPERS presentation - "Modern Adventures in Azure Privilege Escalation" This was a fantastic conference and I'm so glad that we finally got to do this. I have a few more thoughts on it in the thread 🧵 notpayloads.blob.core.window…
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Solid blog by the Canaries
🤖 Made with AI
Adversaries aren't just using malware—they're hiding behind your IT tools. 🔧 Remote monitoring and management (RMM) abuse has surged in the last year. Ransomware groups weaponize tools like ScreenConnect, NetSupport Manager, and SimpleHelp because they're signed, trusted, and blend right in. Our latest blog covers the most commonly abused RMM tools, how they work, and how to detect them—before it's too late: redcanary.com/blog/security-…
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From subnet to Domain Admin, autonomously. Discover, enumerate, escalate, harvest — one agent runs the entire kill chain. Integrate with mythic, sliver, and bloodhound, and hook into any of your favorite network operations tools. Try out our network ops capability today (start for free) → app.dreadnode.io
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I did some further research on @kfosaaen's blog (all kudos to them): "We Know What You Did (in Azure) Last Summer." Hopefully you can take a look, the research took around 5 or 6 days: vix-w1zzer.gitbook.io/vixwiz…
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AI red teams today are stuck doing workflow engineering instead of finding vulnerabilities. Weeks spent on infrastructure, when they could be probing for security and safety risks. At the same time, traditional ML and generative AI security remain siloed across different libraries and tooling ecosystems, creating long-term operational and maintenance burden. We built an agentic AI red teaming system on the Dreadnode SDK to flip this narrative, accelerating testing from weeks to hours. Operators describe the objective in plain English; the agent handles attack selection, workflow generation, execution, and reporting. In our latest paper, we dive deep into the AI red team agent architecture, our methodology, the complete attack and transform catalog, the analytics pipeline… and then we pointed it at Meta's Llama Scout. The result: → 674 attacks, 573 findings, 7,727 trials → 232 critical vulnerabilities across 68 objectives → ~85% attack success rate → ~3 hours, zero human-written code AI red teaming today looks like software development before agent-assisted coding: skilled operators spending most of their time on infrastructure rather than on the work that requires their judgment. The transition isn't necessarily about replacing the operator. It's about moving the operator's expertise up a layer, from which Python function should I call ➡️ what's worth probing, what risks do we care most about, and what do the results mean for my AI strategy. Blog: dreadnode.io/research/redefi… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04019
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If MSSQL isn't in your attack path visibility yet, this is your sign. @Mayyhem just shipped a major MSSQLHound upgrade with Javier Azofra Ovejero (github.com/jazofra): faster, cross-platform, and pathfinding-ready in BloodHound. Check it out! ghst.ly/4cUKgtJ
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In less than 20 minutes and under $2, we used our .NET reversing capability to run a SAST scan of Azure Cosmos DB in the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR), surfacing a high severity vulnerability in the now-deprecated database. 🆕 Model: Moonshot AI - Kimi K2.6 ⏱️ Task/agent runtime: 19 mins 26 secs 🪙 Tokens: ↑ 3124.0k · ↓ 33.3k 💰 Cost: $1.97 Vulnerability Overview: When using managed identity auth, it calls an internal token service over HTTPS, but the TLS certificate validation callback is tautological — it checks if the server cert's thumbprint matches any cert in the chain, but the leaf cert is always in its own chain, so it always passes. Watch the video to see how we ran it within our TUI. Install Dreadnode and try out the .NET reversing capability: ➡️docs: docs.dreadnode.io/tui/capabi… ➡️command: ray.so/gyrc2qB
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In collaboration with a couple of other leaders in the industry we are releasing SecurityTitles.com - It's an attempt to provide transparency about role levels, expectations and (just for the US market currently, salary ranges). For leaders writing JDs and candidates alike.
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