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Hackers Abuse Active Directory SPN Misconfigurations for Stealthy Kerberoasting Attacks

📅 28 August 2026 at 03:02 UTC📰 Cyber Security NewsView original source ↗

Threat actors are increasingly abusing overlooked Active Directory service principal name (SPN) misconfigurations to launch stealthier Kerberoasting attacks, turning ordinary user accounts into high-value credential targets. The technique, dubbed “Ghost SPN” by Trellix researchers, can allow an intruder with delegated directory permissions to temporarily assign an SPN to a standard account, request a Kerberos service […] The post Hackers Abuse Active Directory SPN Misconfigurations for Stealthy Kerberoasting Attacks appeared first on Cyber Security News.

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