Golden Ticket Attack
A Golden ticket attack is a specific type of attack on the kerberos authentication protocol. Kerberos is used to securely authenticate users and services on a network. What is a Golden ticket attack?The Golden ticket attack exploits the way Kerberos works, and in particular the generation of the TGT by the KDC. If an attacker gains access to the krbtgt account, the account used by the KDC to sign TGTs, an attacker can create fake tickets known as “Golden Tickets”. These tickets allow an attac...
