Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals to infiltrate victims' networks.

An international task force has taken down hundreds of IP addresses and domain names that were used by hackers to launch cyberattacks. The task force, which was coordinated by Europol, disclosed the ...

Efforts to tackle unauthorized, legacy copies of pen testing tool Cobalt Strike have gathered pace over the past two years, leading to an 80% reduction of the software observed in the wild, according ...

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed details of an ambitious operation to disrupt the cybercrime supply chain by targeting IP addresses hosting the Cobalt Strike tool. Cobalt Strike is a ...

A slew of IP addresses associated with the abuse of Fortra’s legitimate red teaming tool, Cobalt Strike, have been taken down by a coordinated law enforcement operation dubbed “Morpheus.” The ...

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), together with partner agencies from around the world, including the FBI and agencies from Australia, Canada and the European Union, has undertaken a series of ...

Malicious adaptations of popular red teaming tools like Cobalt Strike and Metasploit are causing substantial disruption, emerging as a dominant strategy in malware campaigns. According to research by ...

U.S. software firm Fortra said it has 'seized and sinkholed' more than 200 malicious domains and has prevented further exploitation of its Cobalt Strike penetration testing tool by threat actors ...

Threat actors have been distributing trojanized versions of the KeePass password manager for at least eight months to install Cobalt Strike beacons, steal credentials, and ultimately, deploy ...