The First Five Minutes
March and April are CCDC season. This is the time of the year when teams of college students get to compete against each other as
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 Beachhead
I see egress as one of the biggest pains in the offensive space. If your target has zero egress controls—don’t worry about anything I have
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 ACE Problem Solving Method (I use this)
The reason I’m in security today is because of the US Air Force’s Advanced Course in Engineering Cyber Security internship program. I turned down an internship at
The Access Management Team [Shell Sherpas]
When I participate in an exercise, with multiple target networks and a large red team, I favor splitting the team up into cells. Each cell
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’ll never work–we don’t allow port 53 out
One of my favorite Cobalt Strike features is its ability to quietly manage a compromised system with DNS. Being rather proud of this feature, I
That was a fun fire drill…
Last week saw the release of Metasploit 4.10. Those who use Armitage and Cobalt Strike noticed that neither tool worked after running msfupdate on Kali
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?