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Net Cease: Microsoft Researchers Unveil Anti-Reconnaissance Tool

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:52PM   
from the who's-watching? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft researchers Itay Grady and Tal Be'ery have released Net Cease, a PowerShell script that prevents attackers who have already compromised an endpoint from getting information about other targets within the same corporate network.

The idea behind the script is to make attackers' lateral movement on the network more difficult.

[...] Net Cease works by changing the default permissions for the NetSessionEnum method to limit the number of domain users who are able to execute the method remotely.

"The NetCease script hardens the access to the NetSessionEnum method by removing the execute permission for Authenticated Users group and adding permissions for interactive, service and batch logon sessions," the creators explained.

This one's for all you admin types out there who have no choice but to have large numbers of Windows devices on your network.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/10/18/net-cease-network-anti-reconnaissance-tool/

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• Oxymoron title says it all (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday October 19 2016, @07:16PM

  by edIII (791) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @07:16PM (#416297)

  Microsoft Researchers Unveil Anti-Reconnaissance Tool

  So Microsoft [security] researchers were working on Anti-Reconnaissance tools? Does their telemetry department know they declared war on them? :)

  Microsoft and Anti-Reconnaissance are mutually exclusive.

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