@iminastateofdelirium posted in Sim Land
Bro imagine a threat actor discovering a zero-day in some crusty enterprise software and immediately turning the whole network into his personal side quest. One malformed request later and suddenly there’s RCE, then privilege escalation, then credential dumping, then lateral movement like bro is speedrunning the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. 💀
The SOC sees one suspicious process and goes “hmm probably nothing,” meanwhile the attacker has already spawned a shell on the domain controller, found three unpatched servers, and discovered an ancient service account with permanent admin privileges. Then the blue team starts hunting and finds a workstation making encrypted connections at 4:17 AM, a scheduled task named WindowsUpdateDefinitelyReal, and a PowerShell process trying to cosplay as svchost.exe.
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