How to Hack Like a Ghost

1 Becoming Anonymous Online

Pentesters and red teamers get excited about setting up and tuning their infrastructure just as much as they do about writing their engagement reports; that is to say, not at all. To them, the thrill is all in the exploitation, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. Building a secure infrastructure is dull paperwork. If they accidentally leak their IP in the target’s log dashboard, so what? They’ll owe the team a beer for messing up, the blue team will get a pat on the back for finding and exposing the attack, and everyone can start afresh the next day.

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