---
id: 6037
title: "Group Policy Security– Tinkering with External Paths"
source_domain: semperis.com
source_url: "https://www.semperis.com/blog/group-policy-security-tinkering-with-external-paths/"
published_at: "2019-03-05T17:05:16Z"
tags: ["active-directory", "privilege-escalation", "hardening", "group-policy", "sysvol", "malware-distribution"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6037"
lang: en
---

# Group Policy Security– Tinkering with External Paths

## Summary

Why Group Policy is a potent attack tool: write access to a GPO's SYSVOL turns GP into a malware-distribution mechanism—the post examines destructive GPO abuse avenues, including external paths.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** semperis.com
- **Published:** 2019-03-05T17:05:16Z
- **Original:** https://www.semperis.com/blog/group-policy-security-tinkering-with-external-paths/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6037