How to Defend Against SID History Injection

Demonstrates creating, importing, exporting, and altering SQL Server CLR assemblies to execute OS commands, escalate to sysadmin, and persist, with new PowerUpSQL functions for AD-wide campaigns.

Shares an infographic mapping common red team phishing attack workflows to blue team detective and preventative controls, plus practical stealth tips for both offensive operators and defenders.

Shows how DDL, DML, and logon triggers in SQL Server can be abused for persistence, provides a lab and detection guidance, and adds Get-SQLPersistTriggerDDL to PowerUpSQL.

Explains why SQL Server is an overlooked persistence layer, covering startup stored procedures that execute at service start, their detection, code review, removal, and PowerUpSQL automation.

This post focuses on obtaining domain administrative privileges from a local administrator or domain user account. Once the initial steps have been taken to obtain local administrative access on a Windows operating system, the natural next steps are to gain domain user and domain administrative privileges.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.