Popular penetration testing program Cobalt Strike saw a 161% increase in malicious use from 2019 to 2020 and is considered a high-volume threat for 2021.The tool is increasingly being used…
Cobalt Strike Beacon A recent report has disclosed how Cobalt Strike is being exploited by attackers in several campaigns to deploy malware. Cobalt Strike is a legitimate commercial penetration testing…
Mount Locker has been a swiftly moving threat. Having just hit the RaaS scene in the second half of 2020, the group released a major update that broadened its targeting…
Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Cobalt Strike, which pitches…
Ransomware operators are using malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to infect systems with backdoors that deployed Cobalt Strike to compromise the rest of the network. The attacks target…
Microsoft rushed to take action on Wednesday after Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) users reported getting Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz alerts that turned out to be false positives. Cobalt Strike is…