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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By : Johann Rehberger
Book Image

Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By: Johann Rehberger

Overview of this book

It's now more important than ever for organizations to be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches. Preventive measures alone are not enough for dealing with adversaries. A well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program is required. This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and homefield advantage opportunities to boost security. The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you'll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you'll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build, manage, and measure a red team program effectively and be well-versed with the fundamental operational techniques required to enhance your existing skills.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Targeting the blue team

A list of proposed operations would not be complete without discussing possible operations that target the company's defenders themselves. Quite often, the blue team itself is off limits during operations.

An adversary might attempt to blind, deceive, or even leverage the blue team to strengthen their foothold and persistence. Hence, ensuring that security controls, detections, monitoring, and alerting are in place for the blue team themselves is crucial for the successful operation of an SOC.

This should include regular phishing exercises and directly scanning blue team machines for exposed ports and unpatched software, as well as attempts to gain physical access to machines and infrastructure.

More advanced scenarios include modifying detection rules. Sometimes, detections are configuration files or source code that can be modified by an adversary.

Some of these scenarios fundamentally circumvent blue team capabilities. Hence, extreme...