Software for Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations

Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations are security assessments that replicate the tactics and techniques of an advanced adversary in a network. While penetration tests focus on unpatched vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, these assessments benefit security operations and incident response.

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Latest Release: Cobalt Strike 4.12

Refreshed GUI, a REST API, User Defined C2, New Process Injection Options, UAC Bypass Refresh, and more. 

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Why Cobalt Strike?

Cobalt Strike gives you a post-exploitation agent and covert channels to emulate a quiet long-term embedded actor in your customer’s network. Malleable C2 lets you change your network indicators to look like different malware each time. These tools complement Cobalt Strike’s solid social engineering process, its robust collaboration capability, and unique reports designed to aid blue team training.

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Learn more about Cobalt Strike’s key features and its interoperability with our other offensive security tools, Core Impact and Outflank Security Tooling (OST).

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A Key Part of Fortra

Cobalt Strike is proud to be part of Fortra’s comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio. Fortra simplifies today’s complex cybersecurity landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the fast-changing challenges you face in safeguarding your organization. With the help of powerful tools like Cobalt Strike, Fortra is your relentless ally, here for you every step of the way throughout your cybersecurity journey.

About Cobalt Strike

Raphael Mudge created Cobalt Strike in 2012 to enable threat-representative security tests. Cobalt Strike was one of the first public red team command and control frameworks. In 2020, Fortra (the new face of HelpSystems) acquired Cobalt Strike to add to its Core Security portfolio and pair with Core Impact. Today, Cobalt Strike is the go-to red team tool for many U.S. government, large business, and consulting organizations.