Beacon – A PCI Compliant Payload for Cobalt Strike
TL;DR Beacon is a new Cobalt Strike payload that uses DNS to reduce the need to talk directly to Cobalt Strike. Beacon helps you mimic
Delivering custom payloads with Metasploit using DLL injection
I’m very interested in supporting alternative remote administration tools in Cobalt Strike. Meterpreter is awesome as an active RAT, but I need something less chatty
A loader for Metasploit’s Meterpreter
Recently, there was an interesting discussion on the metasploit-framework mailing list about the staging protocol for Meterpreter. egypt let loose with some wisdom about what
Covert VPN – Layer 2 Pivoting for Cobalt Strike
Currently, I’m debating a class of social engineering “packages” to force SMB requests against an attacker controlled system. Ideas include packages to generate LNK files,
Cortana: real-time collaborative hacking… with bots
At BSides Las Vegas, I talked about Force Multipliers for Red Team Operations. In this talk, I shared several stories about how my evil bots stole passwords,
Use Armitage and Cobalt Strike on Amazon’s EC2
James Webb has an interesting blog post on how to use Armitage to manage a pen test through Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud. He does a
Cobalt Strike Video Review
Ryan Linn created a video review of Cobalt Strike for the Ethical Hacker Network. Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video into the blog post, but I
Meet Cobalt Strike: Adaptive Pen Testing
If you’re reading this, you’re likely aware of the Armitage project. Fed by your enthusiasm and feedback, Armitage has enjoyed a rapid pace of development
DARPA’s Cyber Fast Track: My Experience
Last week, I received a grant from DARPA through the Cyber Fast Track program. I consider this a big milestone in my personal career. If
My VirtualBox Penetration Testing Lab
Last week I taught an Advanced Threat Tactics course at the Lonestar Application Security conference. I like to provide ample hands-on opportunities in my courses.