Having your Active Directory breached is bad enough, but an attacker who gains persistence is even more dangerous. The longer they are able to hide in your Active Directory forest, the better chance they have of gaining access to your organization’s crown jewels. Undetected, they can comfortably wait for the most opportune time to take control, stealing your organization’s most sensitive data and do with it what they please.
Cobalt Strike is a standard-setting adversary simulation tool, recognized globally for facilitating red team operations with its signature payload and extensible C2 framework to accurately replicate the tactics of today’s advanced threat actors
Beacon, Cobalt Strike’s signature payload, models the behavior of advanced adversaries to perform post-exploitation activities. Beacon offers multiple avenues of communication, including:
Vulnerabilities can be found in just about any type of software—and even some pieces of hardware. Threat actors are all too eager to take advantage of these vulnerabilities, leveraging them to gain access to or escalate privileges in an organization’s IT infrastructure. When these vulnerabilities are discovered before the vendor is aware, these are known as zero-day threats.
Core Impact and Cobalt Strike represent two distinct, yet complementary approaches to security assessment.
The latest release of Core Impact has arrived! Version 20.3 showcases our commitment to creating a comprehensive, streamlined process for testing the defenses of any IT environment. At the forefront of this effort is the debut of exciting new interoperability capabilities with our red teaming platform, Cobalt Strike.
Security vulnerabilities are one of the most common problems in cybersecurity today, as they may exist in operating systems, services and application flaws, improper configurations or risky end-user behavior. According to the statistics from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, 12,174 new vulnerabilities were uncovered in 2019—over 13 times as many as were discovered in 1999, when the database first came into existence.
Traditional security operations often mean pitting the red team--which focuses on hacking and penetration testing to uncover weakness--against the more defensive stance of the blue team. With daily news of breaches and attacks, its critical to examine these techniques and see if new or supplemental approaches are needed. Cybersecurity experts will talk about when and how to go purple by merging the best capabilities and outcomes of the red and blue teams.
