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Intro to PAMSkeletonKey for Persistence w/ Ben Bowman

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🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com How does PAM abuse fit into a real‑world attack chain? Join us for a free one‑hour BHIS webinar with Ben Bowman as he introduces PAMSkeletonKey, a tool designed for red teamers and CTF players to explore persistence, lateral movement, and privilege escalation on Linux systems. Ben will teach why the tool was created, how to use it safely in lab environments, and what this technique means for defenders working to detect or prevent authentication abuse. You'll learn a practical understanding of Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) authentication and how it can be abused to create a skeleton‑key backdoor for persistence. Get started with PAMSkeletonKey: https://github.com/her3ticAVI/PAMSkeletonKey Chat with your fellow attendees in the Black Hills Infosec Discord server: https://discord.gg/BHIS in the #🔴live-chat channel.

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