The Threat Emulation Problem
There are a lot of people who talk about threat emulation. Use our super-duper-elitesy-neatsy-malware to emulate these tactics in your network. I say stuff like
Real-Time Feed of Red Team Activity
There are several research projects to collect raw data from red team activity, process this data, and try to turn it into information. In this
Interoperability with the Metasploit Framework
Cobalt Strike 3.0 is a stand-alone platform for Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations. It doesn’t depend on the Metasploit Framework. That said, the Metasploit
Cobalt Strike 2015: An Offensive Platform is Born
It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of 2015 and on to 2016. I’ve now had a product on the market for three and
Windows Access Tokens and Alternate Credentials
I’d like to call your attention to the humble runas.exe program on Windows. This program allows a Windows user to spawn another program with another
Post-Exploitation Only (Not Really)
During a recent conversation, a friend had mentioned that they saw Cobalt Strike as a post-exploitation only tool. This strikes me as a little odd.
Flying a Cylon Raider
In Season 1, Episode 5 of Battlestar Galactica, Lieutenant Kara Thrace finds herself marooned on a barren planet with a crashed Cylon Raider. To get
Revolutionary Device Detects Mimikatz Use
I see mimikatz as one of the most significant collections of offensive capability available today. Because there’s so much capability, folks are often interested in
Migrating Your Infrastructure
I’ve written about infrastructure for red team operations before. Infrastructure are the servers, domains, and other assets that support your ongoing operation against a target
The Cobalt Strike Trial’s Evil Bit
RFC 3514 proposes an IPv4 flag to allow traffic to flag itself as malicious or not. This RFC’s authors reason that if malicious programs opt