CYBERSECURITYTRACKER
TRACKING6,506 stories in this site build1,309 vulnerability news stories in this site build
Permanent story citation

The ADWS Architecture That Hides PowerShell AD Enumeration

This page keeps the story as Cybersecurity Tracker first published it. If the tracker later corrects it, the correction appears below the original and never replaces it.

Back to newsStory 720

As cited

Copy frozen at (site build).

threat intel

The ADWS Architecture That Hides PowerShell AD Enumeration

A security team discovered that threat actors successfully enumerated an entire Active Directory environment using Get-ADComputer without triggering any detections. The underlying issue stemmed from an architectural gap in how PowerShell communicates with Active Directory rather than sophisticated evasion techniques by the attacker.

Why it matters: Organizations relying on detection rules for PowerShell AD enumeration may have blind spots in their monitoring; practitioners should audit their ADWS (Active Directory Web Services) architecture and PowerShell logging to identify similar gaps in AD reconnaissance detection.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

threat intel

The ADWS Architecture That Hides PowerShell AD Enumeration

A security team discovered that threat actors successfully enumerated an entire Active Directory environment using Get-ADComputer without triggering any detections. The underlying issue stemmed from an architectural gap in how PowerShell communicates with Active Directory rather than sophisticated evasion techniques by the attacker.

Why it matters: Organizations relying on detection rules for PowerShell AD enumeration may have blind spots in their monitoring; practitioners should audit their ADWS (Active Directory Web Services) architecture and PowerShell logging to identify similar gaps in AD reconnaissance detection.

VendorsMicrosoft
Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Glossary