verify.cobaltstrike.com outage summary
Cobalt Strike’s update process was degraded due to a data center outage that affected https://verify.cobaltstrike.com. The verify server is back up and the functionality of
Update: Stopping Cybercriminals from Abusing Cobalt Strike
Since 2023, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), Fortra, and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) have been working together to combat the use
Two Years of Fast and Easy Hacking
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the release of Armitage. My goal was to create a collaboration tool for exercise red teams. I wanted to show
There’s Another New Deputy in Town
Things are moving in the Cobalt Strike world…And they are moving… FAST. When I started my position with the Cobalt Strike team, I got to
There’s a New Deputy in Town
It’s been less than a month since I joined the Cobalt Strike team. My first impressions of this team have been overwhelmingly positive. As Raphael
The Cobalt Strike Trial’s Evil Bit
RFC 3514 proposes an IPv4 flag to allow traffic to flag itself as malicious or not. This RFC’s authors reason that if malicious programs opt
The Aggressor Project (Preview)
If you’ve run into me at a conference during the 2015 calendar year, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard about or saw the Aggressor project.
The #1 Trait of a Successful Hacker
For some people, programming comes naturally to them. For others, it’s a struggle or something that doesn’t click with the way they think. The same
That time a printer tried to get Cobalt Strike
I’m sometimes asked: “Raphael, what does Strategic Cyber LLC do to control Cobalt Strike?” That’s the subject of this blog post. What is Cobalt Strike?
Stopping Cybercriminals From Abusing Security Tools
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), cybersecurity software company Fortra™ and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) are taking technical and legal action to disrupt