61 percent of networks vulnerable to low-skilled hackers

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61 percent of networks vulnerable to low-skilled hackers
August 18, 2020
https://betanews.com/2020/08/18/networks-vulnerable-low-skilled-hackers/

Almost half of all actions by attackers are identical to the normal activities of the users and admins, and in most companies even a low-skilled hacker can obtain control of the infrastructure.

These are among the findings of a new study from penetration testing specialist Positive Technologies. Testers, acting as internal attackers, managed to obtain full control of infrastructure at 23 tested companies usually within three days.
At 61 percent of the companies, the research found at least one simple way to obtain control of infrastructure that would have been feasible even for a low-skilled hacker.
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Legitimate actions that would be unrecognizable from regular user activity accounted for 47 percent of the actions that allowed testers to create an attack vector. These actions included creating new privileged users on network hosts, creating a memory dump of lsass.exe, exporting registry hives, and sending requests to the domain controller.
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Positive Technologies: Positive Technologies pentests find hackers are difficult to distinguish from legitimate users

Positive Technologies experts have conducted internal penetration testing¹, simulating attacks from a malefactor located inside the company. Their analysis, which is summarized in the report Penetration Testing of Corporate Information Systems shows that almost half of all actions by attackers are identical to the usual activities of the users and admins, and that in most companies even a low-skilled hacker can obtain control of the infrastructure.
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