This video explains how passwords can be exposed by Group Policy Preferences and demonstrates techniques allowing adversaries to compromise Active Directory by extracting plaintext passwords from SYSVOL using the Microsoft-published AES key.
To learn more about this attack and how to mitigate, detect and respond to it go to: https://www.netwrix.com/plaintext_passwords_sysvol_group_policy_preferences.html
Learn about other attacks in our attack catalog: https://www.netwrix.com/attack.html