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Once we have established an authenticated session of any type, whether the session is legitimate or hacked via any of the attacks previously discussed, a threat actor’s goal is to elevate privileges and extract data (outside of ransomware and causing business disruptions).
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Haber, M.J., Hibbert, B. (2018). Privilege Escalation. In: Privileged Attack Vectors. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3048-0_5
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