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Cortana is the scripting engine built into Armitage and Cobalt Strike. It’s based on my Sleep scripting language. Most scripting languages have a REPL (Read,

A VPN pivot is a virtual network interface that gives you layer-2 access to your target’s network. Rapid7’s Metasploit Pro was the first pen testing product

Seasoned Metasploit Framework users know that it’s a bad idea to let the framework generate an executable for you. The framework’s encoders are not a

Last week saw the release of Metasploit 4.10. Those who use Armitage and Cobalt Strike noticed that neither tool worked after running msfupdate on Kali

When a user launches Armitage or Cobalt Strike on Windows and presses Start MSF, they’re presented with a curious error. It states: You must connect

Mimikatz is a rapidly evolving post-exploitation toolkit by Benjamin Delpy. I call it a post-exploitation toolkit because it has a lot of features, far beyond

Meterpreter’s getsystem command is taken for granted. Type getsystem and magically Meterpreter elevates you from a local administrator to the SYSTEM user. What’s really happening

Listeners are Cobalt Strike’s abstraction in front of the Metasploit Framework’s payload handlers. A handler is the exploit/multi/handler module. This module sets up a server that

If you’ve ever had to change a module in the Metasploit Framework, you know the go to place is the modules/ directory off of the