red team

About this tag
The red team tag on WindowsForum.com covers offensive security practices, including penetration testing, privilege escalation, and AI-specific red teaming. Discussions highlight techniques like RemoteMonologue, which exploits DCOM and NTLM for fileless attacks, and BadSuccessor, a privilege escalation method in Windows Server 2025 Active Directory. Microsoft's AI red team is featured for securing generative AI applications such as Copilot and Azure OpenAI. Kali Linux 2025.2 is reviewed as a tool for red teams with MITRE ATT&CK integration. CISA red team assessments of critical infrastructure are also covered, emphasizing real-world vulnerabilities and defense strategies. The tag focuses on proactive security testing, detection, and mitigation in Windows and enterprise environments.
  1. GPT-5 powers Microsoft Copilot: unified AI routing across apps and code

    Microsoft’s ecosystem just received one of the most consequential AI upgrades in recent memory: OpenAI’s GPT-5 is now embedded across Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry—promising deeper reasoning, longer context, stronger coding assistance, and an...
  2. BadSuccessor Threat in Windows Server 2025: How to Detect and Defend Against Privilege Escalation in AD

    A silent yet critical risk has emerged in enterprise Windows environments with the discovery of BadSuccessor, a powerful privilege escalation technique that takes advantage of Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs) in Active Directory under Windows Server 2025. While the dMSA migration...
  3. Kali Linux 2025.2 Review: Advanced Penetration Testing with MITRE ATT&CK Integration

    The latest release of Kali Linux, version 2025.2, is more than just an incremental update; it’s a bold stride in both functionality and focus, recalibrating the system’s interface, platform support, and arsenal of pentesting tools to reinforce its status as a mainstay for professional red teams...
  4. Protecting Yourself from Poisoned AI: Critical Tips and Risks Unveiled

    Artificial intelligence has rapidly woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives, offering everything from personalized recommendations and virtual assistants to increasingly advanced conversational agents. Yet, with this explosive growth comes a new breed of risk—AI systems manipulated for...
  5. How Microsoft’s AI Red Team Secures Generative AI: Insights and Innovations

    Microsoft’s AI red team isn’t your typical group of “hackers in hoodies”—it’s a highly specialized, interdisciplinary unit that’s been hard at work since 2018 to secure the future of generative AI. As Microsoft’s pioneer in AI red teaming has noted, their team has proactively “broken” over 100...
  6. RemoteMonologue: A Fileless Red Team Technique Exploiting DCOM and NTLM

    Red teams have a new trick up their sleeve. In an era when Microsoft fortifies credential theft defenses and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems evolve at breakneck speed, attackers are shifting away from classic payload-based methods. Enter RemoteMonologue—a highly innovative...
  7. CISA Red Team Assessment: Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Uncovered

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently unveiled an advisory outlining the findings from a Red Team assessment conducted on a U.S. critical infrastructure sector organization. While most advisories induce yawns from non-security pros, this one is a wake-up...
  8. CISA Red Team Breach Simulation: Unveiling Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

    Imagine you're living in a fortress. You believe it’s well-guarded with gates, drawbridges, and moats. But what if a tireless infiltrator sneaks in, unveils weak points, and maps vulnerabilities? That’s exactly what happened recently when the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
  9. VIDEO Inside MSRC: Sharing Our Story & Customer Tips

    For the last 20 years, the Microsoft Security Response Center has been an integral part of Microsoft’s commitment to customer security. We are often called on to talk about the work we do and how customers can apply the lessons we have learned over that period to better their security posture...