Europol has just announced that during a week-long operation in late June, nearly 600 IP addresses supporting illegal copies of Cobalt Strike were removed. Fortra’s legitimate red-teaming tool is known to be widely abused by cybercriminals, who use cracked copies of the tool to launch malware and ransomware attacks such as Ryuk, Trickbot, and Conti. … Read more
Europol has just announced that during a week-long operation in late June, nearly 600 IP addresses supporting illegal copies of Cobalt Strike were removed. Fortra’s legitimate red-teaming tool is known to be widely abused by cybercriminals, who use cracked copies of the tool to launch malware and ransomware attacks such as Ryuk, Trickbot, and Conti. … Read more
The National Crime Agency is coordinating the global fight against illegal software that has been used by cybercriminals to infiltrate victims’ IT systems and carry out attacks for more than a decade. Last week (Wednesday, June 24), unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike were targeted. Cobalt Strike is a penetration testing tool used to detect vulnerabilities … Read more