Compass Security Blog - Offensive Defense

Last year we wrote about a Windows 11 vulnerability that allowed a regular user to gain administrative privileges. Not long after, Manuel Kiesel from…

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Over the course of 2025, we performed several hundred security assessments for our clients. In each of these, security analysts must understand a new…

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NTLM is the legacy authentication protocol in Windows environment. In the past few years, I've had the opportunity to write on this blog about NTLM…

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The gRPC framework, and by extension gRPC-Web, is based on a binary data serialization format. This poses a challenge for penetration testers when…

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Something a bit wild happened recently: A rival of LockBit decided to hack LockBit. Or, to put this into ransomware-parlance: LockBit got a post-paid…

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