Using his deep technical expertise and over two decades of hands-on IT security work, Adrian Furtuna founded and built Pentest-Tools.com with a team of offensive security experts pooling together their 30+ years of collective experience.

A speaker at international conferences (BlackHat Europe, Hack.lu, ZeroNights, Hacktivity, DefCamp, OWASP, Hacknet) and a university lecturer, Adrian believes in generously sharing insights, research, and solutions to help infosec specialists with an offensive mindset make a bigger impact with less time and effort.

Penetration Testers versus Initial Access Brokers. Helping the good guys win

Initial Access Brokers are cybercriminals who hack companies and sell access to their networks to the highest bidder (mostly ransomware gangs).

In this talk we explore various initial access methods these threat actors use and which can be applied in penetration testing engagements to simulate realistic attack scenarios.

I will demo some of these tactics with Pentest-Tools.com, a cloud-based toolkit for penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.