Cobalt Strike 4.1 – The Mark of Injection
Cobalt Strike 4.1 is now available. This release introduces a new way to build post-ex tools that work with Beacon, pushes back on a generic
Cobalt Strike joins Core Impact at HelpSystems, LLC (now Fortra)
I founded Strategic Cyber LLC in 2012 to advocate a vision of threat-representative security testing. Over time, Cobalt Strike became the de facto commercial standard for red
Cobalt Strike 4.0 – Bring Your Own Weaponization
Cobalt Strike 4.0 is now available. This release improves Cobalt Strike’s distributed operations model, revises post-exploitation workflows to drop some historical baggage, and adds “Bring
That time a printer tried to get Cobalt Strike
I’m sometimes asked: “Raphael, what does Strategic Cyber LLC do to control Cobalt Strike?” That’s the subject of this blog post. What is Cobalt Strike?
Cobalt Strike 3.14 – Post-Ex Omakase Shimasu
Cobalt Strike 3.14 is now available. This release benefits the OPSEC of Beacon’s post-exploitation jobs. To take a screenshot, log keystrokes, dump credentials, or scan
Cobalt Strike Team Server Population Study
From February 4, 2019 to February 15, 2019 Strategic Cyber LLC connected to several live Cobalt Strike team servers to download Beacon payloads, analyze them,
Broken Promises and Malleable C2 Profiles
Red Team infrastructure is a detail-heavy subject. Take the case of domain fronting through a CDN like CloudFront. You have to setup the CloudFront distribution, have a valid
Fighting the Toolset
What happens when your advantages become a disadvantage? That’s the theme of Fighting the Toolset. This lecture discusses Offensive PowerShell, staging, memory-injected DLLs, and remote
Cobalt Strike 3.11 – The snake that eats its tail
Cobalt Strike 3.11 is now available. This release adds to Cobalt Strike’s in-memory threat emulation and evasion capabilities, adds a means to run .NET executable
Beware of Slow Downloads
I often receive emails that ask about slow file downloads with the Beacon payload. Here are the symptoms: When I get these emails, I usually