OS Credential Dumping: LSA Secrets

APT33 has used a variety of publicly available tools like LaZagne to gather credentials.^[16][17]

CosmicDuke collects LSA secrets.^[13]

Dragonfly 2.0 dropped and executed SecretsDump to dump password hashes.^[18][19][20]

gsecdump can dump LSA secrets.^[5]

SecretsDump and Mimikatz modules within Impacket can perform credential dumping to obtain account and password information.^[6]

Ke3chang has dumped credentials, including by using gsecdump.^[21][22]

LaZagne can perform credential dumping from LSA secrets to obtain account and password information.^[7]

Leafminer used several tools for retrieving login and password information, including LaZagne.^[23]

menuPass has used a modified version of pentesting tools wmiexec.vbs and secretsdump.py to dump credentials.^[24][25]

Mimikatz performs credential dumping to obtain account and password information useful in gaining access to additional systems and enterprise network resources. It contains functionality to acquire information about credentials in many ways, including from the LSA.^{[8][9][10][11]}

MuddyWater has performed credential dumping with LaZagne.^[26][27]

OilRig has used credential dumping tools such as LaZagne to steal credentials to accounts logged into the compromised system and to Outlook Web Access.^{[28][29][30][31]}

Pupy can use Lazagne for harvesting credentials.^[12]

Threat Group-3390 actors have used gsecdump to dump credentials. They have also dumped credentials from domain controllers.^[14][15]

Ensure that local administrator accounts have complex, unique passwords across all systems on the network.

Follow best practices for design and administration of an enterprise network to limit privileged account use across administrative tiers.^[3]

Limit credential overlap across accounts and systems by training users and administrators not to use the same password for multiple accounts.