Mimikatz is both an exploit on Microsoft Windows that extracts passwords stored in memory and software that performs that exploit. It was created by French programmer Benjamin Delpy and is French slang for "cute cats".
Mimikatz is both an exploit on Microsoft Windows that extracts passwords stored in memory and software that performs that exploit. It was created by French programmer Benjamin Delpy and is French slang for "cute cats".
==History== Benjamin Delpy discovered a flaw in Microsoft Windows that holds both an encrypted copy of a password and a key that can be used to decipher it in memory at the same time. He contacted Microsoft in 2011 to point out the flaw, but Microsoft replied that it would require the machine to be already compromised. Delpy realised that the flaw could be used to gain access to non-compromised machines on a network from a compromised machine.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).