Security News > 2016 > October > Net Cease: Microsoft researchers unveil anti-reconnaissance tool (Help Net Security)
2016-10-18 13:09
Microsoft researchers Itay Grady and Tal Be’ery have released Net Cease, a PowerShell script that prevents attackers who have already compromised an endpoint from getting information about other targets within the same corporate network. The idea behind the script is to make attackers’ lateral movement on the network more difficult. Non-admin user gets access denied calling NetSess remotely after Net Cease was deployed on the target machine This type of reconnaissance can be performed by … More →
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