Why Infrastructure Hacking Isn’t Dead
If you work in IT Security you may have heard people utter the phrase,
“Infrastructure hacking is dead!”
We hear this all the time but in all honesty, our everyday experience of working in the industry tells a completely different story.
With this in mind we’ve decided to factor out our “infrastructure related h@x0ry” from our Bootcamp Course and create a brand spanking new one, completely dedicated to all things ‘infrastructure’.
Willems and I are currently on an internal assessment and have popped a couple hundred (thousand?) RHEL machines, which was trivial since they are all imaged. Anyhoo – long story short, we have a user which is allowed to make use of sudo for a few commands, such as reboot and service. I immediately thought it would be nice to turn this into a local root somehow. Service seemed promising and I had a looksy how it works. Whilst it does do sanitation of the library path it does not remove LD_PRELOAD. So if we could sneak LD_PRELOAD past sudo then all should be good ?
We’re excited to be presenting our Hacking By Numbers Combat course again at Black Hat USA this year. SensePost’s resident German haxor dude Georg-Christian Pranschke will be presenting this year’s course. Combat fits in right at the top of our course offerings. No messing about, this really is the course where your sole aim is to pwn as much of the infrastructure and applications as possible. It is for the security professional looking to hone their skill-set, or to think like those in Unit 61398. There are a few assumptions though: