Compass Security Blog - Offensive Defense

While not new, a self-referencing LNK file in combination with winget configuration instructions can be a viable initial access payload for…

Last year we wrote about a Windows 11 vulnerability that allowed a regular user to gain administrative privileges. Not long after, Manuel Kiesel from…

Over the course of 2025, we performed several hundred security assessments for our clients. In each of these, security analysts must understand a new…

NTLM is the legacy authentication protocol in Windows environment. In the past few years, I've had the opportunity to write on this blog about NTLM…

The gRPC framework, and by extension gRPC-Web, is based on a binary data serialization format. This poses a challenge for penetration testers when…