SSL certificate verification failure
UPDATE: This has now been fixed. I’ve amended this post to reflect that. If you ran the Cobalt Strike update program today, you may have
Cobalt Strike 4.3 – Command and CONTROL
Cobalt Strike 4.3 is now available. The bulk of the release involves updates to DNS processing but there are some other, smaller changes in there
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
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
SSL certificate verification for failed
TL;DR a certificate for part of the Cobalt Strike update infrastructure changed. Download the 20200511 distribution package to avoid certificate verification errors. If you recently
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
Cobalt Strike’s Process Injection: The Details
Cobalt Strike 3.14 finally delivered some of the process injection flexibility I’ve long wanted to see in the product. In this post, I’d like to
Cobalt Strike 3.13 – Why do we argue?
Cobalt Strike 3.13 is now available. This release adds a TCP Beacon, process argument spoofing, and extends the Obfuscate and Sleep capability to the SMB
Cobalt Strike 3.12 – Blink and you’ll miss it
Cobalt Strike 3.12 is now available. This release adds an “obfuscate and sleep” in-memory evasion feature, gives operators [some] control over process injection, and introduces
PowerShell Shellcode Injection on Win 10 (v1803)
Cobalt Strike’s process to inject shellcode, via PowerShell, does not work with the latest Windows 10 update (v1803). While it’s possible to work without this