Alex manages the Offensive Security team at Netrix. He has diversified experience working within IT operations, security program management, and hands-on security testing engagements. Alex continuously maintains the technical skillsets required to collaborate with front-line IT teams, leading various security engagements from network penetration testing, application testing, cloud assessments, physical security, wireless, purple teaming, and ransomware simulation assessments.
Here is a demonstration of a recently released Palo Alto exploit to gain root level privileges. It leverages authentication bypass (CVE-2024-0012) and a privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-9474) to quickly compromise a vulnerable endpoint.
Administrators should be aware of how easy it is for threat actors to leverage Zero-Days, and ensure security programs have robust patching and hardware upgrade processes in place to protect the organization’s perimeter.
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