Cobalt Strike 4.10 is now available. This release introduces BeaconGate, the Postex Kit, and Sleepmask-VS. In addition, we have overhauled the Sleepmask API, refreshed the Jobs UI, added new BOF APIs, added support for hot swapping C2 hosts, and more. This has been a longer release cycle than in previous releases to allow us to […]
Press Release: View Original Europol Announcement 03 Jul 2024 – Law enforcement has teamed up with the private sector to fight against the abuse of a legitimate security tool by criminals who were using it to infiltrate victims’ IT systems. Older, unlicensed versions of the Cobalt Strike red teaming tool were targeted during a week […]
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The Cobalt Strike download infrastructure will be down for a short while on Wednesday 13th March for routine maintenance. Work will begin around 15:00 GMT (10:00 EST). We expect the maintenance to be completed in under 30 minutes. Downloads and updates will be unavailable while this work is carried out. Apologies for any inconvenience that […]
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This is a joint blog written by William Burgess (@joehowwolf) and Henri Nurmi (@HenriNurmi). In our ‘Cobalt Strike and YARA: Can I Have Your Signature?’ blog post, we highlighted that the sleep mask is a common target for in-memory YARA signatures. In that post we recommended using the evasive sleep mask option to scramble the […]
We will be making a small change to the Cobalt Strike infrastructure next week. This will not result in any downtime but will affect updates using old copies of the update application. TLS Certificate Update verify.cobaltstrike.com hosts a text file with SHA256 hashes for the licensed Cobalt Strike product and distribution packages for Windows, Linux […]
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Cobalt Strike 4.9.1 is now available. This is an out of band update to fix an issue that was discovered in the 4.9 release that we felt would negatively impact customers as they start to roll out the release and for which there is no straightforward workaround. We also took the opportunity to address a […]
Cobalt Strike 4.9 is now available. This release sees an overhaul to Cobalt Strike’s post exploitation capabilities to support user defined reflective loaders (UDRLs), the ability to export Beacon without a reflective loader which adds official support for prepend-style UDRLs, support for callbacks in a number of built-in functions, a new in-Beacon data store and […]
This is the second installment in a series revisiting the User-Defined Reflective Loader (UDRL). In part one, we aimed to simplify the development and debugging of custom loaders and introduced the User-Defined Reflective Loader Visual Studio (UDRL-VS) template. In this installment, we’ll build upon the original UDRL-VS loader and explore how to apply our own […]
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Beacon Object Files (BOFs) were introduced in Cobalt Strike 4.1 in 2020. Since their release, BOFs have played a key role in post-exploitation activities, surpassing Reflective DLLs, .NET assemblies, and PowerShell scripts. However, in our experience, many developers struggle with four primary pain points: In this blog post, we will tackle these difficulties by introducing […]
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This is a joint blog written by the Cobalt Strike and Outflank teams. It is also available on the Outflank site. Over the past few months there has been increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing internally between the Cobalt Strike and Outflank R&D teams. We are excited about the innovation opportunities made possible by this teamwork and […]
Read More… from Cobalt Strike and Outflank Security Tooling: Friends in Evasive Places