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Attack Lifecycle /topic/reconnaissance

Reconnaissance

Reconnaissance is the first stage of any structured attack.

Passive recon

  • OSINT — public records, social media
  • DNS records — Shodan, Censys, certificate transparency

Active recon

Direct interaction. Port scans, service fingerprinting, web crawling.

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