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Cobalt Strike Infrastructure Changes – November 2026

TLS Certificate Updates The current TLS certificates for www.cobaltstrike.com and verify.cobaltstrike.com both expire on November 16th 2026. The certificates will be updated on or before

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Go Further with Cobalt Strike: Introducing Certified Operator II

We’re excited to announce Cobalt Strike Certified Operator II – a new training course focused on advanced Cobalt Strike customisation and evasion. Building on our

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Cobalt Strike 4.13: Lost In Translation

Cobalt Strike 4.13 is now available. This release brings C scripting directly into Cobalt Strike via the new Beacon Interpreter, solves some long-standing issues with

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Cobalt Strike Infrastructure Maintenance – May 2026

We will be introducing a small change to the Cobalt Strike download and authentication workflow on Monday May 18th, 2026. This change is not expected

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New Mouse in the House: Zero-Point Security Training Joins the Fortra Family

For those who don’t know me, my name is Daniel Duggan, known online as RastaMouse. I spent over a decade working as a penetration tester

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Introducing Cobalt Strike Research Labs

Today, we’re launching Cobalt Strike Research Labs (CS:RL), a new Fortra offering that unites the research expertise of the Cobalt Strike and Outflank teams. CS:RL

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Playing in the (Tradecraft) Garden of Beacon: Finding Eden

We have previously blogged about using BeaconGate to dynamically instrument Beacon at run time. However, one of BeaconGate’s limitations is that it is not applied throughout Beacon’s entire lifecycle. Specifically, it does