New PetitPotam attack allows take over of Windows domains

From bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft

A new NTLM relay attack called PetitPotam has been discovered that allows threat actors to take over a domain controller, and thus an entire Windows domain.

Many organizations utilize Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services, which is a public key infrastructure (PKI) server that can be used to authenticate users, services, and machines on a Windows domain.

In the past, researchers discovered a method to force a domain controller to authenticate against a malicious NTLM relay that would then forward the request to a domain’s Active Directory Certificate Services via HTTP.

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