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The Hacker News
24 Jul 2026

Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller

Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine. They codenamed th

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