📢 New Article Drop: Weaponizing Windows Toast Notifications for Social Engineering
🧠 Windows Toast Notifications are everywhere: policy updates, VPN reminders, password expiry alerts. Because these are legitimate applications that users trust, they can become a high‑impact social‑engineering surface.
🦄 I just published a deep‑dive playbook on how Toast Notifications can be abused for credential harvesting, lateral movement, user manipulation etc. and how defenders can perform detection.
📖 1x Playbook
💡 Detection Opportunities
🎯 1x MDE Query
🚨 1x SIGMA Rule

𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐃'𝐬
✅ 7 & 13 (Sysmon)
✅ DLL Monitoring: wpnapps.dll & msxml6.dll from unexpected processes
✒️ https://ipurple.team/2026/03/25/toast-notifications/
#purpleteam #detectionengineering #blueteam #threathunting

📢 New article about GAC Hijacking to perform Code Execution and Persistence
📖 1x Playbook - A structured breakdown of the full approach
💡 3x Detection Opportunities
🏹 2x Threat Hunting Queries - Defender & Splunk

https://ipurple.team/2026/02/10/gac-hijacking/ #purpleteam

📢 EDR Silencing
📖 1x Playbook - A structured breakdown of the full approach
💡 6x Procedures - Practical, reproducible techniques mapped to real-world operator workflows
🚨 1x Sigma Rule - To help defenders spot this activity
🎯 A compact, practical resource for detection engineers and purple team operators.
💭 Would love your thoughts.

https://ipurple.team/2026/01/12/edr-silencing/