Lateral Movement Techniques Threat Actors Use Inside Networks
Lateral movement is where most modern incidents quietly become serious. The initial foothold is usually a workstation or a forgotten internet exposed service. The damage comes from the next twenty hosts the attacker reaches before anyone notices the activity. The techniques in routine use are well documented, the defences are well understood and the gap between the two continues to produce headlines.
Credential Reuse Is The Engine
Most lateral movement runs on credentials. Local administrator passwords reused across thousands of workstations. Service accounts that authenticate against half the servers in the estate. Cached domain credentials that linger in memory on machines that the legitimate user is no longer logged into. Each of these gives an attacker a free ride to the next...





