When Trusted Authentication Enables Privilege Escalation
Security Boulevard, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Active Directory remains the backbone of enterprise identity. Despite years of modernization efforts, many organizations still rely on legacy authentication protocols that were never designed for today's threat landscape.
New reporting from Dark Reading highlights how attackers continue to abuse NTLM and Kerberos within Microsoft Active Directory environments to escalate privileges, move laterally, and maintain persistence.
These are not new vulnerabilities. They are longstanding protocol weaknesses that adversaries repeatedly exploit because they remain widely enabled in enterprise networks.