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The dangers of WPAD and LLMNR – Protect your network

Fredrik G.
Security, Windows
June 10, 2019June 11, 2019

In my previous article I wrote a few words about the WPAD/LLMNR protocols and gave you an example of how to use wpad to set up an attack. Now, more importantly, here are a few tips on how to protect your network being vulnerable. Tip #1 – Turn off WPAD… Read More »

The dangers of WPAD and LLMNR – Poisoning attack

Fredrik G.
Linux, Security, Windows
June 9, 2019June 14, 2019

There are already some great resources out there explaining vulnerabilities linked to the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) and Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) protocol. In this post I will demonstrate an example using WPAD poisoning and Brute Force. Basically, WPAD is an auto-discovery protocol used by web browsers to… Read More »