The #TROOPERS26 ‘AD & Entra ID Security’ track delivered an incredible experience – much like the entire conference! We were thrilled to host some of the brightest minds in identity research alongside a highly engaged audience who brought valuable insights to the roundtable discussions. While the presentation slides have already been published on the TROOPERS website, several speakers have shared complementary tools, in-depth blog posts, and active social media threads. To make things easy, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of all these fantastic resources from the track below.
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TROOPERS26: Integrating Incident Analysis and Digital Forensics Tooling for Automated Compromise Detection
Last week I gave a talk at #TROOPERS26: Integrating Incident Analysis and Digital Forensics Tooling for Automated Compromise Detection. I discussed the challenges of incident analysis, such as increasing storage capacities and the lack of integration between tools. I presented a modular framework that integrates established forensic and analysis tools using a decision-tree-based control mechanism. A workflow was designed to control the execution of 14 integrated analysis tools in order to reproduce the manual analysis process usually performed by analysts. Moreover, the framework is capable of identifying whether a system has been compromised and compiles a analyst-oriented report. Together with the audience we took a look at the report in a live demonstration. The evaluation results of the framework were promising as it was able to identify all compromised systems. However, a significant number of false positive classifications were also observed. To improve the framework possible future extensions include functionality such as recovering already deleted files to detect missed Indicators of Compromise. Additionally, our team want to integrate artificial intelligence in the workflow to help in data processing and make more decisions automatically. The slides will be published next week on the conference website. I will add the link in this blog post when they become available. A more detailed description of the content of the talk can be found in the following sections. Looking forward to #TROOPERS27!
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How to strengthen Supply Chain Security: Practical Exchange and Roadmap
Join an open, practitioner-focused roundtable for direct exchange on supply chain security. This session offers a concise overview of core concepts, e.g. SBOM, CSAF, and VEX and digs into the processes behind them: how to obtain, process and apply information to improve security across the supply chain.
We will examine:
- How SBOM, CSAF and VEX relate and why version-level detail matters.
- The practical value of an SBOM and why it’s increasingly required by law and IT procurement.
- How to create and consume SBOMs?
- Methods to identify dependencies in the context of vulnerabilities.
- Approaches to triage: not all vulnerabilities affect every stakeholder equally.
- Techniques to analyze vulnerabilities and identify affected products and product families.
- Sources of vulnerability information and how to map data unambiguously to products and specific software versions.
- Reporting obligations: where and how to disclose vulnerabilities.
- Tools and automation that help manage information volume and complexity.
- Technical, organizational and personnel challenges to achieving end-to-end supply chain security.
- The role of AI in supply chain security.
- How do we protect ourselves from malicious actors / infected dependencies?
- The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): implications for companies, products and consumers, the CRA roadmap, and concrete deadlines and actions.
- We will show a live demonstration of the whole process, e.g. covering the consumption of SBOMs, vulnerability identification and assessment, creation of VEX documents.
This roundtable is designed for security practitioners, product owners, compliance officers and decision-makers who want actionable guidance and peer discussion. Expect candid conversation, real-world examples and next steps you can take to strengthen resilience across your supply chains.
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The #TROOPERS25 ‘AD & Entra ID Security’ track was a blast – as was the whole conference 😉 – bringing together some of the smartest researchers in the field and a great audience of practitioners willing to share their experiences during the roundtable. The slides of the talks have been released in the interim on the TROOPERS website, but since many speakers published additional blogposts or released tools, we provide a compilation of resources from the track in the following.
Continue readingSecurity Advisory: Airoha-based Bluetooth Headphones and Earbuds
Important note: Some media coverage on this topic falsely or inaccurately depicts the attack conditions. To be clear: Any vulnerable device can be compromised if the attacker is in Bluetooth range. That is the only precondition.
During our research on Bluetooth headphones and earbuds, we identified several vulnerabilities in devices that incorporate Airoha Systems on a Chip (SoCs). In this blog post, we briefly want to describe the vulnerabilities, point out their impact and provide some context to currently running patch delivery processes as described at this year’s TROOPERS Conference.
Continue readingWindows Hello for Business – Past and Present Attacks
Windows Hello for Business is a key component of Microsoft’s passwordless authentication strategy. It enables user authentication not only during system sign-in but also in conjunction with new and advanced features such as Personal Data Encryption, Administrator Protection, and Recall. Rather than depending on traditional passwords, Windows Hello leverages a PIN or biometric methods – such as fingerprint or facial recognition – to unlock cryptographic keys protected by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
Continue readingBMBF UNCOVER – Monitoring von Sicherheitsvorfällen in Fahrzeugen
English Abstract
For the realization and introduction of autonomous vehicles, the safe interaction of functions, systems and services as well as their monitoring over the entire product life cycle is essential. An exclusive security-by-design approach is no longer sufficient and must be continuously supported by feedback obtained from in-the-wild operation. This is where the recently successfully completed joint project BMBF UNCOVER comes into play, which targets the requirements of the standards ISO/SAE 21434 (Road vehicles – Cybersecurity engineering) and ISO 21448 (Road vehicles – Safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF)).
Continue readingTROOPERS24 Agenda Preview: Active Directory & Entra ID Security Track
Hi,
are you curious about the agenda of the Active Directory- & Entra ID security track at TROOPERS24? Here’s a sneak peak of the already published tracks:
Wednesday, 2024-06-26:
- A Decade of Active Directory Attacks: What We’ve Learned & What’s Next – Sean Metcalf
- ADillesHeel: Making the Impossible Possible in AD Attack Path Analysis – SHANG-DE JIANG
- So You Performed A Forest Recovery. How Do You Reconnect Your AD Again With Azure AD? – Jorge de Almeida Pinto
- Decrypting the Directory: A Journey into a static analysis of the Active Directory NTDS to identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities – Bastien Cacace (XMCO company)
- Say Hello to your new cache flow! – Geoffrey Bertoli, Rémi Jullian
- Analyzing and Executing ADCS Attack Paths with BloodHound – by Andy Robbins, Jonas Bülow Knudsen
Thursday, 2024-06-27:
- The (almost) complete LDAP guide – Sapir Federovsky
- Exploiting Token-Based Authentication: Attacking and Defending Identities in the 2020s – Dr Nestori Syynimaa
- Attacking Primary Refresh Tokens using their MacOS implementation – Olaf Hartong, Dirk-jan Mollema
- Misconfiguration Manager: Overlooked and Overprivileged – Duane Michael, Chris Thompson
- The Registry Rundown – Cedric Van Bockhaven, Max Grim
The full conference agenda including timeslots will be published soon at TROOPERS24. The trainings are already sold out, but a handful of tickets is currently left. Stay tuned & make the world a safer place!
Continue readingLua-Resty-JWT Authentication Bypass
I was writing some challenges for PacketWars at TROOPERS22. One was intended to be a JWT key confusion challenge where the public key from an RSA JWT should be recovered and used to sign a symmetric JWT. For that, I was searching for a library vulnerable to JWT key confusion by default and found lua-resty-jwt. The original repository by SkyLothar is not maintained and different from the library that is installed with the LuaRocks package manager. The investigated library is a fork of the original repository, maintained by cdbattags in version 0.2.3 and was downloaded more than 4.8 million times according to LuaRocks.
Continue readingAll your parcel are belong to us – Talk at Troopers 2023
At Troopers 2023, we gave a talk on how to attack DHL parcel tracking information based on OSINT. Since we previously had an exemplary disclosure process about this attack with DHL, Mr. Kiehne (from DHL) joined us to provide interesting background information and insights on how they addressed our findings.
We want to thank DHL and especially Mr. Kiehne for sharing those insights with us at Troopers 2023. It is the ideal case, but still not common that organizations talk openly about their actions and views on a disclosure process.
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