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Red tradecraft
The collection landscape
  • Privacy greenhouse
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  • Purple crossroads
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Initializing search
    • An adversary mind map, one of many
      • Footing
      • What is there
      • Findings
      • Mapping
      • Turning access into position
      • What changed, and what it cost
      • Revising, then pricing
      • Converting position into value
        • Data exfiltration and pacing operational egress
        • Extracting intelligence from configuration and system state
        • Making it count
        • Model extraction via query interfaces
        • Knowing what to take
          • The collection landscape
            • Trends
            • The remit for red teams
            • The uncomfortable bottom line
            • Identity-first collection
            • Supply chain as a collection vector
            • Collection techniques
          • The collection landscape
            • Trends
            • The remit for red teams
            • The uncomfortable bottom line
            • Identity-first collection
            • Supply chain as a collection vector
            • Collection techniques
          • Finding and pulling the data
          • From access to staged data
        • Getting it out
        • Steganography
      • Assessing, then deciding
    • The grounds
    • Ankh-Morpork: the city leaves a footprint
    • Fungolia earthworks
    • Unseen University Power & Light Co.
    • The Scarlet Semaphore
    • TryHackMe rooms
    • Root-Me challenges
    • RIPE NCC Academy labs

    The collection landscape¶

    Collection used to mean “find the file share, copy the files”. Now it means understanding which identity controls which data, and then becoming that identity. The perimeter is gone; what remains is identity, and identity is what attackers target first.

    Several shifts are worth naming explicitly:

    • Trends
    • The remit for red teams
    • The uncomfortable bottom line
    • Identity-first collection
    • Supply chain as a collection vector
    • Collection techniques
    2026-07-30 17:57
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