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msDS-SupersededManagedAccountLink, the Target-Side Write That Forges a dMSA Migration

Microsoft’s August 2025 fix for BadSuccessor (CVE-2025-53779) works — but an attacker who controls a dMSA and can write a target’s migration-link attributes can forge the mutual pairing the KDC now demands and pull that account’s Kerberos key material out of the dMSA key package. The detection has to move from watching one attribute to watching the pairing on the target object.

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Legitimate Generator Writes Baseline at Zero Outside Patch Windows

System-level systemd generators run as root at the earliest moment of boot, before auditd, before the EDR agent, before your normal journald/syslog/audit telemetry is reliably up. You will never see the execution. Here is how to build the detection that actually works — file writes and baseline reconciliation — and what breaks it the first week.

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Image Mode RHEL Moves the Mutable Surface to /etc and /var

Bootc and rpm-ostree turn the root filesystem read-only and push state into a handful of writable paths. That quietly invalidates half your host integrity detections. Here is the new shape of the problem and what to instrument before the first ATO review notices.

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