Back in June 2023, Microsoft officially announced it had deprecated support for its New Technology LAN Manager authentication protocol, which debuted in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. It advised users ...

The testing was used on a collection of password hashes using LM and NTLM protocols. The NTLM is a bit stronger and fared better than the LM, but that’s not actually saying much. An eight ...

From there, the attacker can capture the NTLM hashes and use them to authenticate themselves as the victim, leading to potential escalation of privileges and further compromise of the environment.” ...