William Burgess

Principal Research Lead
Fortra's Cobalt Strike

William Burgess is a principal research lead for Fortra’s Cobalt Strike. He has spent time working on both blue and red teams and his primary research interests are in EDR evasion, Windows internals, and everything low level. A key part of his role is to provide technical guidance and help to define priorities for both research activities and main product releases.

Contributions from William Burgess

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Introducing Cobalt Strike Research Labs
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Playing in the (Tradecraft) Garden of Beacon: Finding Eden
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Cobalt Strike 4.12: Fix Up, Look Sharp!
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Events and Webinars

Black Hat Europe (London) 2025
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Dynamically Instrumenting Beacon With BeaconGate – For All Your Call Stack Spoofing Needs!
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Cobalt Strike 4.11: Shhhhhh, Beacon is Sleeping

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Cobalt Strike 4.11: Shhhhhh, Beacon is Sleeping….
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Cobalt Strike 4.10: Through the BeaconGate
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Introducing the Mutator Kit: Creating Object File Monstrosities with Sleep Mask and LLVM
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Cobalt Strike and Outflank Security Tooling: Friends in Evasive Places
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Cobalt Strike and YARA: Can I Have Your Signature?
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