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CVE-2024-21378 — Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Outlook
Learn how NetSPI discovered that Microsoft Outlook was vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution (RCE) via synced form objects.
15 Ways to Bypass the PowerShell Execution Policy
NetSPI security expert Scott Sutherland covers 15 ways to bypass the PowerShell execution policy without having local administrator rights on the system.
How to Use Attack Surface Management for Continuous Pentesting
Uncover attack surfaces and exposures with NetSPI’s offensive security including Attack Surface Management (ASM) to enable continuous pentesting.
A New Era for Offensive Security
Today, NetSPI and Synack announced a definitive agreement to merge, backed by KKR, forming the industry’s leading offensive cybersecurity platform.
Introducing EchoBench: A Human Calibrated Benchmark for Autonomous Pentesting
NetSPI introduces EchoBench, a human-calibrated benchmark for autonomous AI web app pentesting. EchoBench measures finding fidelity, difficulty-reach, OWASP breadth, and repeatability to accurately gauge AI security capabilities against real human outcomes.
Verifying the Verifier – Assessing Identity Verification Services
As AI-driven identity verification becomes the front line of defense against fraud, this piece breaks down how to stress-test these systems, from building synthetic IDs and deepfake voices to uncovering the gaps attackers are most likely to exploit.
BOFScale: A CDN-Fronted Tailnet from a BOF-PE
Discover how BOFScale leverages a modified Tailscale daemon compiled as a BOF-PE to seamlessly hide C2 traffic and DERP relays behind CDNs using standard WebSockets.
Stealing the Artifact – JFrog Artifactory Vulnerability
Discover how NetSPI uncovered and reported vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory that allowed unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and steal an arbitrary artifact.
Azure VM Command Execution using Third-Party Extensions – Salt Minion
In part two of our series, learn how attackers can leverage this legitimate tool to achieve undetected, arbitrary code execution as root, and explore the key detection methods you need to protect your Linux and Windows environments.
Azure VM Command Execution using Third-Party Extensions – Chef
Discover how a privileged principal in Azure can abuse third-party extensions like Chef to achieve arbitrary command execution on target VMs by deploying malicious cookbooks to extract Managed Identity tokens.
CVE-2026-63030 & CVE-2026-60137: WordPress Core Pre-Authentication RCE Overview & Takeaways
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.
ADPathFinder: OpenGraph Attack Path Mapping in BloodHound CE
ADPathFinder unifies SharpHound data with OpenGraph collectors like MSSQLHound and ConfigManBearPig. Discover how this tool maps complex, cross-dataset privilege escalation paths across AD, ADCS, MSSQL, and SCCM, and brings vital graph context to your password audits.
Confidence Over Noise: Introducing Continuous AI Findings Validation
NetSPI’s Continuous AI Findings Validation service applies expert human judgment to AI-generated security findings, eliminating false positives and verifying severity so security teams can trust, prioritize, and act with confidence instead of chasing noise.
Bypassing Microsoft Entra Conditional Access Policies via Nested App Authentication
Discover how attackers bypassed Microsoft Entra Conditional Access Policies using Nested App Authentication (NAA) flows in this technical vulnerability breakdown.
I’m Just Asking Questions: Social Engineering as a Reporter
Dive into this real-world social engineering assessment where a fake anonymous tip and an adversary-in-the-middle framework tested the limits of an organization’s security policies.