Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, July 2023

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.

Releases Invoke-ExternalDomainBruteforce, which detects whether a Microsoft domain is managed or federated, picks the right authentication flow, and automates password guessing against O365 and ADFS.

January 2022 roundup: phishing enrolled attacker devices into Azure AD tenants lacking enforced MFA; LockBit hit the French Ministry of Justice and European firms via GPO-based deployment; noPac can compromise DCs in seconds.

Azure AD SCIM provisioning synced user names into a web app without output encoding, giving script injection via the firstName field and a path to steal credentials with an imported JS file.

Semperis argues that testing backups under ideal conditions creates only an illusion of resilience; real cyber resilience is about staying recoverable when the plan fails and the assumptions behind it collapse.

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.