The Cobalt Strike team is excited to sponsor the Darknet Diaries podcast, which brings awareness to critical cybersecurity issues and encourages proactive efforts that bolster defenses against modern threats and attackers. Cobalt Strike is a threat emulation tool that enables security professionals to simulate the tactics and techniques of a stealthy long-term embedded attacker in […]
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Cobalt Strike Staffing Changes and the Road Ahead
TLDR: Cobalt Strike Staffing Changes Recently there have been some internal changes within the Cobalt Strike team. Greg Darwin has switched to a new position within Fortra. Greg has been the face of Cobalt Strike within the community for a number of years and we thank Greg for all his work and effort he put […]
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Revisiting the UDRL Part 3: Beacon User Data
The UDRL and the Sleepmask are key components of Cobalt Strike’s evasion strategy, yet historically they have not worked well together. For example, prior to CS 4.10, Beacon statically calculated its location in memory using a combination of its base address and its section table. This calculation was then modified depending on the contents of […]
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Cobalt Strike 4.10: Through the BeaconGate
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 […]