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There is an entire research area called offensive security which includes what is possible and what actions stay undetected. Attacker might be root/admin on thi
by kerng 6y ago
There is an entire research area called offensive security which includes what is possible and what actions stay undetected. Attacker might be root/admin on this machine and gaining access to more creds allows the adversary to move to other machines.
So in a sense we know its possible but unless someone abuses these things to demonstrate it, organizations won't care or be able to detect compromises and lateral movement. Real world adversaries do these things, most notably was when Google was throughly compromised by a foreign nation state for instance.
Also, it gets even more interesting for malware if its running on a bastion host because then malware has access to all the forwarded keys!
- teh_klev 6y agoI totally take your point, especially the second paragraph, and agree. Maybe it's the deep cynic in me that tends to read these articles as another "oh look Windows bad" write up, rather than analyse what can happen if a stealthy attacker gains access to your machine and covers their footprints. These write ups get passed around in a sensationalised manner with very little thought about or understanding that the OS was functioning correctly given their user privileges.