Blog Security Research Give Me an E, Give Me a T, Give Me a W. What Do You Get? RPC! Stiv Kupchik is a Security Researcher Team Lead at Akamai. His research projects revolve around OS internals, vulnerability research, and malware analysis. He has presented his research at conferences such as Black Hat, Hexacon, and 44CON. In addition to being a cybersecurity professional, Stiv also has a BSc in physics. Table of contents The content in this blog was originally presented at BlackHat USA 2023. \r\n"}}"> MS-RPC: Fraying the protocol to detect attacks We’re continuing our dive into MS-RPC , with yet another blog post. But this time, instead of focusing on the offensive side and looking for vulnerabilities, we’ll discuss some of Windows built-in defensive capabilities. We’ll see how to utilize them to catch a glimpse of what is going on under the RPC hood, hopefully detecting nefarious activity along the way.…