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Learn Pipe Fitting for all of your Offense Projects

Named pipes are a method of inter-process communication in Windows. They’re used primarily for local processes to communicate with eachother. They can also facilitate communication

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Pushing back on userland hooks with Cobalt Strike

When I think about defense in the current era, I think of it as a game of instrumentation and telemetry. A well-instrumented endpoint provides a

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Agent Deployed: Core Impact and Cobalt Strike Interoperability

Core Impact 20.3 has shipped this week. With this release, we’re revealing patterns for interoperability between Core Impact and Cobalt Strike. In this post, I’ll

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A Red Teamer Plays with JARM

I spent a little time looking into Saleforce’s JARM tool released in November. JARM is an active tool to probe the TLS/SSL stack of a listening

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verify.cobaltstrike.com outage summary

Cobalt Strike’s update process was degraded due to a data center outage that affected https://verify.cobaltstrike.com. The verify server is back up and the functionality of

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Cobalt Strike 4.2 – Everything but the kitchen sink

Cobalt Strike 4.2 is now available. This release overhauls our user exploitation features, adds more memory flexibility options to Beacon, adds more behavior flexibility to

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Beacon Object File ADVENTURES: Some Zerologon, SMBGhost, and Situational Awareness

Cobalt Strike can use PowerShell, .NET, and Reflective DLLs for its post-exploitation features. This is the weaponization problem set. How to take things, developed outside

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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

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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

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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

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