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Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)

SwiftSlicer Malware and Group Policy

You may have caught the recent article about a new malware variant, called SwiftSlicer--attributed to a Russian APT group--that is making its way around Active Directory environments. There's not a ton of details about how this malware is delivered, but the one detail...

Removing Orphaned Delegation on GPOs

One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...

SDM Software and CVE-2021-44228

We've had several customers ask us about the very widely reported CVE-2021-44228 "Log4j" vulnerability. We have reviewed our products and confirmed that none of SDM Software's solutions use or rely on Log4j for any functions and therefore are not subject to this...

The Attack of the Trojan GPOs

The story of the Trojan Horse is well known to everyone who has taken a history class. True or not, the story goes that the Greeks, in an effort to finally sack the city of Troy, construct a giant wooden horse with some of their top soldiers hidden inside. They wheel...

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