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March and April are CCDC season. This is the time of the year when teams of college students get to compete against each other as

PowerShell became a key part of my red team toolkit in 2014. Cobalt Strike 2.1 added PowerShell support to the Beacon payload and this has made

Earlier last year, I had a frantic call from a customer. They needed to make a small change to Beacon’s communication pattern and quickly. This

I added DNS Communication to Cobalt Strike in June 2013 and refined it further in July 2013. On sales calls and at conferences I get

One of my favorite blog posts from last year was the Adversary Tricks and Treats post from CrowdStrike. They showed how one of the actors

This blog post is inspired by a question sent to a local mailing list. The original poster asks, what’s the go-to phishing technique or exploit

TL;DR This is my opinion on Threat Intelligence: Automated Defense using Threat Intelligence feeds is (probably) rebranded anti-virus. Threat Intelligence offers benefit when used to

There is a growing chorus of folks talking about simulating targeted attacks from known adversaries as a valuable security service. The argument goes like this: penetration testers

A few months ago, I was having lunch at a favorite Italian restaurant in Washington, DC. I work in a residential area, which means lunch

I often get asked about red team skills and training. What should each team member know how to do? For exercises or long running attack