7ASecurity

🔐 The NTDS.dit file is one of the most valuable targets in an Active Directory environment.

Modern attackers don’t need malware to steal it. They increasingly rely on trusted Windows tools and Living-off-the-Land techniques to bypass traditional security controls.

👉 Learn how to protect your Active Directory crown jewels:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/06/protect-ntds-dit-active-directory/

Your Guide to Finding and Protecting the NTDS.dit Location The NTDS.dit location is the primary target for any hacker looking to take total control of your organisation. This file is the central database for Active Directory. It contains every user account, group membership, and the encrypted password hashes for your entire domain. While the default file pa...

🛡️ AD Explorer is a trusted Microsoft admin tool.

But attackers abuse its snapshot feature to map your entire Active Directory offline without triggering many security alerts.

Understanding and detecting this technique is critical for defending modern identity infrastructures.

👉 Learn how to detect and prevent AD Explorer abuse:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/06/stop-ad-explorer-abuse/

Stop Hackers Abusing AD Explorer in Your Corporate Network AD Explorer is an advanced admin tool used to manage and fix Active Directory databases. Yet, its powerful snapshot feature also helps attackers download your entire directory structure to analyse offline. Once the directory is extracted, hackers feed this data into graph tools like BloodHound to ma...

🔐 Microsoft is retiring NTLM. The problem is that attackers still love it.

NTLM hashes remain a powerful tool for Pass-the-Hash and relay attacks. As organizations move toward Kerberos-only authentication, identifying hidden relay paths is critical.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/ntlm-hash-security-kerberos-migration/

The 2026 Guide to NTLM Hash Security and Kerberos Migration An NTLM hash is the mathematical version of a password that Windows uses for legacy authentication. For years, the security industry has known that older versions of this system were broken. Now, the 2025 and 2026 security baselines target the death of the entire NTLM stack, including NTLMv2. Micros...

🎯 Attackers don't need thousands of Kerberos ticket requests anymore.

Modern Kerberoasting attacks are targeted, quiet, and designed to blend into normal network activity. Traditional detection rules that look for volume alone are no longer enough.

Learn how advanced threat hunting, KQL analytics, and Kerberos hardening can help detect the attacks that automated tools often miss.
👉 Read more:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/stop-kerberoasting-threat-hunting-blueprint/

Stop Kerberoasting: Our Advanced Threat-Hunting Blueprint Modern Kerberoasting detection has moved far beyond watching for bulk ticket requests. In 2026, sophisticated threat actors use targeted requests to blend seamlessly into normal network traffic. With Microsoft’s mandatory move to AES-256, defenders must focus on advanced KQL queries and specific b...

☁️ Attackers don’t wait for alerts anymore.
They hide inside your cloud infrastructure while automated tools drown teams in noise.

Threat hunting in the cloud is about proactively finding the attackers that already bypassed your defenses — before they steal data or establish persistence.

👉 Learn how modern cloud threat hunting actually works:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/cloud-threat-hunting/

Threat Hunting in the Cloud: Proactive Security Explained Threat hunting in the cloud is the only reliable way to find sophisticated attackers hiding inside your infrastructure. Your cloud setup probably triggered dozens of security alerts last week. Most of them were just noise. A few were duplicates. But one of them might’ve been a real threat buried i...

🛡️ Identity is now the primary security perimeter.
Attackers aren’t breaking in anymore — they’re logging in through weak permissions, legacy accounts, workload identities, and shadow admin paths.

Modern Entra security requires more than Global Admin restrictions. It requires Zero Standing Access, adaptive privilege controls, and continuous identity auditing.

👉 Learn how modern Entra role security actually works:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/entra-roles-7asecurity-strategy/

The 7ASecurity Strategy for Entra Roles: Beyond Global Admin Managing Entra roles is no longer just assigning permissions; it’s about automating how we remove access. Microsoft Entra is shifting away from broad built-in roles like Global Admin toward highly specialised, restricted roles. As of 2026, the secure-by-default standard requires Zero Standing Acce...

📢 New 7ASecurity public report

🔒 Ouinet audited by 7ASecurity through a deep whitebox security assessment
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/ouinet-audit-7asecurity/

💬 Feedback welcome as always, props to for coordination

Ouinet audit by 7ASecurity About Ouinet Ouinet is a suite of free, open source software tools and infrastructure that provides access to the open internet in repressive information contexts with limited or no connectivity. Ouinet works through a network of cooperating nodes or servers, using peer-to-peer routing, and the dist...

🔴 Red Team services don’t just find vulnerabilities.
They show whether your organisation can detect and stop a real attack.

A clean pentest report doesn’t always mean your business is secure. Red Teaming tests your people, processes, and technology under realistic attack scenarios.

👉 Learn how Red Team services protect your digital assets:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/red-team-services-explained/

Red Team Services Explained: Protecting Your Digital Assets Red Team services show you exactly how your network handles a real, targeted attack. You already have firewalls, endpoint protection, and regular staff training. Your last security audit only showed a few minor vulnerabilities. Yet, how sure are you really that those tools would actually stop a skil...

🔴🔵 Purple Team cybersecurity isn’t about “Red vs Blue.”
It’s about making both teams stronger together.

Most pe*******on tests end with a PDF report and unresolved findings.
Meanwhile, SOC teams still struggle to detect real-world manual attacks.

Purple Teaming changes this by bringing attackers and defenders together in real time to:

✅ Improve detection capabilities
✅ Reduce alert fatigue
✅ Validate security tools
✅ Turn testing into measurable security improvements

👉 Learn how Purple Team cybersecurity actually works:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/purple-team-cybersecurity/

What Is Purple Team Cybersecurity and Why Do You Need It Purple Team cybersecurity lets you move from uncertain system security to proven, real-world defence. Consider this: Your company hires a pe*******on testing team. They spend two weeks testing your systems, recording flaws, and writing a technical report. That report lands on a manager's desk. Teams...

🛡️ PCI DSS compliance isn’t just about passing scans.
It’s about proving your payment systems can withstand real attacks.

Quarterly scans, risk ranking, remediation timelines, pe*******on testing —
most organisations misunderstand at least one critical part.

👉 Learn how proper PCI DSS vulnerability management actually works:
https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/05/pci-dss-vulnerability-management/

Master PCI DSS Vulnerability Management for Your Business Effective PCI DSS vulnerability management is the first line of defence for businesses managing credit card data. You've heard the basics before: Run quarterly scans. Fix the critical bugs. Document every single step. And yet, this area remains one of the most misunderstood parts of PCI DSS vulnerab...