How APT Groups Pivot from Initial Access to Domain Dominance in Under 4 Hours
· 20 min read
You're staring at an EDR alert from 11:47 PM. A Word document spawned PowerShell. By the time your analyst acknowledges the ticket at 12:09 AM, the attacker already has a beacon calling home, has run BloodHound across your entire AD, dumped credentials from LSASS, and is authenticating to your domain controller with a Domain Admin hash. The "200-day dwell time" you quoted last quarter's board meeting is about to become a footnote. This intrusion will be over in four hours.
Category: Threat Intelligence · Reading time: 25 min · Audience: SOC Analysts, Detection Engineers, Incident Responders