Keystroke Logging with Beacon
I feel asynchronous low and slow C2 is a missing piece in the penetration tester’s toolkit. Beacon is Cobalt Strike’s answer to this problem. Beacon
Offense in Depth
I regularly receive emails along the lines of “I tried these actions and nothing worked. What am I doing wrong?” Hacking tools are not magical
Two Years of Fast and Easy Hacking
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the release of Armitage. My goal was to create a collaboration tool for exercise red teams. I wanted to show
Using AV-safe Executables with Cortana
Part of a penetration tester’s job is to deal with security products, such as anti-virus. Those of us that use the open source Metasploit Framework
Post-Mortem of a Metasploit Framework Bug
Two weekends ago, I ran my Advanced Threat Tactics course with a group of 19 people. During the end exercise, one of the teams was frustrated. Their
Advanced Threat Tactics Training
I share a lot from my experiences playing on exercise red teams. I talk about the tactics to collaborate, persist on systems, and challenge network defenders
Dirty Red Team Tricks II at Derbycon 2.0
Last year, I spoke on Dirty Red Team Tricks at Derbycon. This talk was a chance to share what I had used at the Collegiate
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