Mimikatz Overview, Defenses and Detection

Mimikatz has become an extremely effective attack tool against Windows clients, allowing bad actors to retrieve cleartext passwords, as well as password hashes from memory. This paper will begin with an overview of Mimikatz's capabilities and payloadvectors. Several methods to mitigate the risk...

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James Mulder

February 29, 2016

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