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Introduction to ADCS Exploitation w/ Alyssa Snow & Kaitlyn Wimberley

Introduction to ADCS Exploitation w/ Alyssa Snow & Kaitlyn Wimberley

Source: YouTube · Black Hills Information Security · published Sep 5, 2025 · 1:09:28

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This webcast provides an overview of Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) and its role in domain privilege escalation 0:14.

Key Takeaways:
• ADCS exploitation is a prevalent technique for domain privilege escalation during internal network penetration tests 0:16.
• The presenters are operators from the Antioch team, a continuous penetration testing group at BHS 0:43.
• The session serves as an introduction to understanding ADCS mechanics and exploitation vectors 0:00.

Understanding ADCS is critical for security professionals aiming to identify and mitigate common privilege escalation paths in enterprise environments.

Sources:

  • 0:00 Introduction to the webcast topic
  • 0:14 ADCS as a common privilege escalation technique
  • 0:43 Presenter background and team affiliation

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Welcome to our introduction to Active Directory Certificate Services Exploitation webcast. Um, today we're going to have a brief overview of Active Directory Certificate Services. Um, ADCS exploitation is one of the most common privilege escalation domain privilege escalation techniques that we use on our internal uh, network penetration tests if we if we have credentials and our assumed compromise type test. So before we before we go into Active Directory Certificate Services stuff, uh introduce ourselves a little bit more thoroughly than Brian did. So Caitlyn and I are each operators on the Antioch on the Antioch team here at BHS. If you're not familiar with Antioch, Antioch is our continuous penetration testing team. Uh we each started in 2022 roughly uh roughly within the same month. O…