The Cyber Threat Perspective

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Step into the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity with the offensive security group from SecurIT360. We’re bringing you fresh content from our journeys into penetration testing, threat research and various other interesting topics.brad@securit360.com

  1. 3d ago

    OWASP Top 10 Part 6: Insecure Design and Business Logic Flaws Explained | Ep 200

    200 episodes! Thank you to everyone who has listened, watched, and shared The Cyber Threat Perspective along the way. To mark the milestone, Brad Causey and Jordan Natter are back with Part 6 of our OWASP Top 10 series, breaking down A06: Insecure Design. These flaws show up when an application does exactly what it was designed to do, but nobody stopped to ask how that functionality could be abused. Brad and Jordan walk through what insecure design looks like in practice, share real-world war stories from pen tests and beyond, and explain how to catch these flaws before they ever reach production. In this episode: Why insecure design fell from #4 to #6 in the OWASP Top 10, and why that isn’t good newsRate limiting, user enumeration, and why secret questions are a no goHow a teenager’s AOL trial CD experiment turned into a careerAbusing rewards programs, group bookings, and first-purchase couponsTaking over insurance accounts using publicly available census dataPrevention through misuse cases, threat modeling, and DevSecOpsWhy a flaw caught in the design phase costs a fraction of one found in a pen testNeed web app pen testing? Visit https://securit360.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  2. Oct 16

    OWASP Top 10 Part 5: Injection Attacks and Real Pen Test War Stories | Ep 199

    We’re halfway through the OWASP Top 10, and this one is a favorite. Brad Causey is joined by Jordan Natter, SecurIT360’s resident web app pen tester, to cover A05: Injection. They explain how injection flaws work, why it slipped two spots on the list but is no less dangerous, and what developers can do to shut it down. Along the way, they share real stories from the field. There’s a first-ever pen test that turned a blood drive gift card app into $25,000 in gift cards and a destroyed production database. There’s a harmless-looking hub status dropdown that became a reverse shell. And there’s a username field that handed over session cookies. In this episode: What injection is and why it can happen anywhere from the browser to the data layerReflected, stored, and DOM-based cross-site scripting, and how they differSQL, NoSQL, LDAP, and why no data layer is immune to injectionWhy injection moving to #5 doesn’t make it a lower priorityHow CSP, HttpOnly cookies, CSRF tokens, and SameSite attributes break attack chainsWhy client-side validation is a usability feature, not a security controlWhitelisting vs. blacklisting, parameterized queries, and output encodingThe case for never testing in production, and backing up your staging data tooResources mentioned: OWASP Input Validation Cheat Sheet and the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series Need a web app pen test or have questions about application security? Reach out to the SecurIT360 team. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  3. Oct 9

    [Replay] Painfully Persistent Problems: Weak Passwords

    It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we’re bringing back one of the most practical episodes in our catalog. Strong passwords are one of the basics of good security, but weak and reused credentials are still a common way attackers get in. In this episode, Brad and Spencer look at why weak passwords keep showing up in real-world compromises. They cover the habits and identity management gaps that cause them and what organizations can do to close those gaps. In this episode: Why weak passwords are still a painfully persistent problemHow poor password habits and identity gaps expose organizations to compromiseCommon mistakes attackers take advantage ofPractical defensive measures you can put in placeOriginally released November 2024. Sources: Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: https://www.verizon.com/about/news/2023-data-breach-investigations-report1Password, Challenges of Shadow IT: https://blog.1password.com/challenges-of-shadow-it/Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/intelligence-reports/microsoft-digital-defense-report-2024Links: Work with us: https://securit360.comBlog: https://offsec.blog/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpovX/Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpovSpencer Alessi: https://spenceralessi.coWork with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  4. Oct 2

    Your Employee Got Hacked. Now What? | Ep 198

    Users will get compromised. Someone will click the link, and credentials will get stolen. The question that really matters is what happens next. In this episode, Spencer and Brad walk through the Post-Compromise Risk Framework (PRID), a simple, repeatable way for IT and security teams to judge how exposed their environment is once an attacker gets in. Using a real-world-style ClickFix scenario involving "Susie in accounting," they trace how one compromised account can lead to lateral movement, credential dumping and sensitive data exposure. They also cover why so many of those steps go undetected. In this episode: Why the assume breach mindset is the best way to measure your securityPrivileges: what can a compromised user actually do?Reach: where can they go with that access?Impact: how bad would it be?Detection: would you even know it happened?How least privilege and network segmentation map to each stepWhy PS Remoting to a domain controller goes undetected nine times out of 10Why "that couldn't happen here" is not proof, and how to verify your controls"Inspect what you expect": testing your EDR instead of trusting itPick a user, assume they're compromised, and walk the path. You'll learn more about your environment, and you'll likely find issues you didn't know were there. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  5. Sep 25

    The Basics Still Win: What GreyNoise's PaperCut Report Shows | Ep 197

    One threat actor compromised at least 440 PaperCut instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries, using AI to run the same playbook at scale. The fastest path to domain admin took five minutes. But out of hundreds of organizations hit, the attacker only got domain admin at 12 of them. Spencer and Tyler use GreyNoise's recent PaperCut report to make the case that the basics matter more now than they ever have. The attack itself was not novel. It used a known vulnerability, a lab environment built to test exploits, an internet scanning service, and familiar offensive tools. AI (Codex and DeepSeek) is what took it from one target to hundreds. In this episode: How the attacker built a PaperCut and Active Directory lab to test exploits before going wideWhy five minutes to domain admin is fast but not unheard of, and how certificate abuse makes it possibleThe Conti playbook comparison, and how LLMs are turning attack playbooks into automated campaignsThe toolkit: Certify, Rubeus, SpoolSample, Impacket, NetExec, BloodHound, Mimikatz, and AMSI bypassesWhy letting hosts reach GitHub directly is a red flag, and how DNS and category filtering slow attackers downThe one case where Cloudflare's WAF stopped the attackWhy the 12 domain admin compromises are a hopeful sign that hardening worksWhere to start with AD hardening: tier zero permissions, dangerous rights on broad groups, service accounts, and certificate templatesMoving past EDR alone with application control, NDR, and identity-based detectionsComparing what a security tool costs to what a compromise costsSpencer and Tyler are penetration testers at SecurIT360. If you get something out of the show, subscribe and leave a rating or review. It helps more than you would think. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  6. Sep 18

    One Hacker, 42 Targets: Inside Anthropic's AI Threat Report | Ep 196

    One French-speaking hacktivist targeted 42 organizations and got internal access to 14 of them, working alone. That is the kind of detail Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report put on the record, with data spanning December 2025 through August 2026. Spencer and Tyler walk through all six generative threat groups named in it and what actually changes for defenders. Their read: the attacks themselves are familiar. Stolen credentials, unpatched edge devices, exposed services, phishing, SQL injection. What AI changed is speed, automation, and scale, and that is enough to matter. In this episode: The skill floor for hacking has dropped, and solo operators are now running campaigns that used to take a teamThreat actors vibe coding phishing kits, credential dashboards, and custom toolingAutomated vulnerability discovery and exploit development, including one workflow that produced more than a dozen potential zero-day findings in a monthWhy older models with looser guardrails are showing up in operations while frontier models refuse the same requestsCustom harnesses and multi-agent pen testing frameworks that chain traditional offensive tools under an LLMStolen AI credentials and API keys as a high-priority target, plus resellers advertising discounted access to frontier modelsOn-the-fly obfuscation and retooling that breaks signature-based detectionWhy baselining, behavioral detection, application control, and external attack surface hygiene matter more than they did a year agoGroups covered: GTG-2006, GTG-50014, GTG-10007, GTG-50020, GTG-50021, and GTG-50029. Spencer and Tyler are penetration testers at SecurIT360.  If you get something out of the show, subscribe and leave a rating or review. It helps more than you would think. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  7. Sep 11

    [Replay] Episode 178: Internal Security Controls That Actually Frustrate Attackers

    Replay of Episode 178, originally published April 22, 2026. We are re-running this one because it is the question we get asked most on internal pen test debriefs: of everything on the list, what actually slows an attacker down? Spencer and Tyler answer it from the attacker side, using what has and has not stopped them on real engagements. What's covered: - Application control done right, including where ThreatLocker and WDAC   actually block a payload and where they get bypassed - MFA, the Protected Users group, and least privilege as attacker-facing   controls rather than compliance checkboxes - Why mismanaged admin privileges and service accounts remain the fastest   route from foothold to domain admin - Network segmentation and zero trust, and what separates a real   implementation from a diagram - Deception techniques and EDR baselining for catching activity that   looks legitimate If you are deciding where the next dollar of your security budget goes, this is the episode that tells you what attackers hope you skip. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

  8. Sep 4

    Every IT Team Has a Joe | Ep 195

    Interested in a pen test? Visit securit360.com. Every organization has a Joe. He is the long tenured engineer or admin who built half the environment, maintains the other half, and keeps most of it in his head. Everybody depends on him and nobody wants to challenge him. Spencer and Tyler break down key man risk in IT, drawing on hundreds of internal pen tests across law firms, banks, credit unions, manufacturing, municipalities, and SaaS organizations. In this episode: Why tribal knowledge is a security risk, not just an operations problemHow word of mouth process handoffs turn into a game of telephoneThe reason remediations stall for an extra 30 daysShadow IT that originates inside the IT teamPrivilege creep and the single account that owns the environmentWhen Joe's resistance to change is the correct callCross training that does not add more work to Joe's plateIncentives, clear ownership, and update deadlines that actually stickSeparating fact gathering from decision making so seniority does not win by defaultThis is not a knock on senior admins. It is a look at the risk that accumulates when one person carries everything, and what IT leaders can do about it. All of our content can be found at Offsec.blog. Interested in a pen test? Visit securit360.com. Work with Us: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com

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Step into the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity with the offensive security group from SecurIT360. We’re bringing you fresh content from our journeys into penetration testing, threat research and various other interesting topics.brad@securit360.com

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    2022 - 2026
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