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Cobalt Strike stories

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RansomEXX ransomware disrupts India's banking services
Last month
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A cyberattack by RansomEXX has disrupted services at around 300 Indian banks, affecting ATMs and UPI transactions. CloudSEK investigates the breach.
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Elastic discovers new attack vector in Microsoft Management Console
Wed, 26th Jun 2024
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Elastic Security Labs has unveiled GrimResource, a new attack technique exploiting the Microsoft Management Console, allowing full code execution with minimal security alerts.
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Bridewell reveals top cyber threats to national infrastructure
Tue, 13th Feb 2024
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Bridewell's 2024 CyberScape Briefing unveils severe cyber threats impacting critical national infrastructure, including Cobalt Strike usage swell.
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Cybersecurity firm Group-IB tracks major new threat actor GambleForce
Thu, 14th Dec 2023
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advanced persistent threat protection
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south korea
Threat actor GambleForce has struck 24 organisations in 8 countries in 3 months, exploiting SQL vulnerabilities to steal sensitive data.
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Huge increase in threat actors using Cobalt Strike - Proofpoint research
Wed, 7th Jul 2021
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Proofpoint cybersecurity company has released research finding a 161% increase in threat actors using the threat emulation tool Cobalt Strike.
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Hackers using spearphishing to target banks –Bitdefender
Tue, 21st Aug 2018
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banking industry
To limit the risk of being discovered, attackers operated outside of normal business hours and cashout operations were planned for weekends.