Agencies warn about Russian government hackers going after unpatched vulnerabilities

The SVR is conducting its targeting both specifically and broadly, the U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies said.

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Was Unpriviledged User Namespaces exploited since it started to default to YES?

We had good discussions about it being safe or not five years ago, and it was defaulted to yes on the kernel way over 3 years ago (with a note calling anyone security conscious who disable it as paranoid)
So, was it exploited after all in … Continue reading Was Unpriviledged User Namespaces exploited since it started to default to YES?

Administrator escalating to SYSTEM in the normal course of things

I am learning about interacting with Kerberos from a programming standpoint and have been recreating some of Rubeus’s functions as a way of learning (because what better open source program is there that deals with Kerberos and tickets). O… Continue reading Administrator escalating to SYSTEM in the normal course of things

Is privilege escalation possible if Attacker can force Victim to write to symlink set by Attacker?

I am sure others have analyzed this scenario before, but I cannot find a source.
Assume:

Attacker has an account on the system
Victim has an account on the system
Victim runs MyProg
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