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S0154: Cobalt Strike

Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured, remote access tool that bills itself as “adversary simulation software designed to execute targeted attacks and emulate the post-exploitation actions of advanced threat actors”. Cobalt Strike’s interactive post-exploit capabilities cover the full range of ATT&CK tactics, all executed within a single, integrated system.[1]

In addition to its own capabilities, Cobalt Strike leverages the capabilities of other well-known tools such as Metasploit and Mimikatz.[1]

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Glexia's Take

Analyst context for executives and security teams

Analyst confidence High

Cobalt Strike matters because it is a legitimate adversary-simulation and remote access tool whose post-exploitation capabilities span the ATT&CK lifecycle. In practice, this makes it a high-value validation target: if an organization cannot distinguish authorized security testing from unauthorized remote access and post-compromise activity, executives may lack reliable evidence during ransomware, espionage, or supply-chain incident decisions.

Executive priority

Prioritize Cobalt Strike coverage as a resilience and incident-readiness question, not just a malware signature question. ATT&CK relationships show use across ransomware intrusions, public-sector and critical-industry targeting, financially motivated groups, and state-linked groups. Leaders should ask whether security testing tools are governed, whether SOC and IR teams can rapidly validate unauthorized use across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and whether telemetry is sufficient to support audit, legal, and business-continuity decisions during a suspected compromise.

Technical view

ATT&CK provides no official detection guidance for S0154, so defenders should validate coverage against the behaviors implied by a full-featured remote access and post-exploitation platform rather than rely on a single indicator. SOC and IR teams should confirm visibility across supported platforms: process execution, parent-child process relationships, command execution, credential-access tool interaction where applicable because Cobalt Strike can leverage tools such as Mimikatz, network connections associated with remote access, and evidence of lateral or post-exploit activity. Relationship context makes this especially relevant in investigations involving ransomware campaigns, exposed or vulnerable Internet-facing applications, supply-chain compromise, phishing-led intrusions, and activity associated with the listed groups and campaigns.

Likely telemetry

  • Endpoint process creation and command-line telemetry on Windows, Linux, and macOS
  • Network connection and egress telemetry for remote access sessions
  • Authentication and credential-use logs, especially where post-exploitation activity is suspected
  • EDR or host audit data showing execution of security tools, dual-use tools, or chained tooling such as Mimikatz
  • Server and application logs for incidents that begin from exposed or vulnerable Internet-facing systems

Detection direction

  • Inventory and govern legitimate Cobalt Strike use so the SOC can separate approved adversary simulation from suspicious execution.
  • Build detections around post-exploitation behavior patterns and telemetry correlation, because ATT&CK does not provide an official detection section for this object.
  • Tune alerts with context from relationships: ransomware intrusions, APT campaigns, financially motivated groups, public-sector targeting, supply-chain compromise, exposed servers, and vulnerable Internet-facing applications are all represented in related ATT&CK objects.
  • Validate coverage across Windows, Linux, and macOS rather than assuming endpoint controls are Windows-only.
  • Treat tool-name or hash-only detection as insufficient; prioritize behavior, execution context, network activity, and credential-use evidence.

Mitigation priorities

  • Establish approval, logging, and change-control requirements for any authorized adversary-simulation tooling.
  • Ensure endpoint and network telemetry collection is enabled and retained across Windows, Linux, and macOS systems that matter to business operations.
  • Harden and monitor Internet-facing applications and exposed servers, since related campaign context includes initial compromise through vulnerable or exposed services.
  • Strengthen credential protection and monitoring because Cobalt Strike can leverage other tools such as Mimikatz.
  • Prepare IR playbooks that distinguish legitimate testing from unauthorized remote access and post-exploitation activity.
Analyst notes and limits

The supplied ATT&CK object identifies Cobalt Strike as commercial adversary-simulation software with broad post-exploitation capability and relationships to numerous campaigns and groups, including ransomware and state-linked activity. This take emphasizes defensive validation and governance because the tool can be legitimate in one context and suspicious in another.

No official ATT&CK detection text, aliases, labels, or object-specific tactics were provided. Local telemetry, approved-tool inventories, red-team schedules, and incident evidence are required before determining whether observed activity is authorized, malicious, or relevant to a specific threat actor.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Cobalt Strike

Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured, remote access tool that bills itself as “adversary simulation software designed to execute targeted attacks and emulate the post-exploitation actions of advanced threat actors”. Cobalt Strike’s interactive post-exploit capabilities cover the full range of ATT&CK tactics, all executed within a single, integrated system.[1]

In addition to its own capabilities, Cobalt Strike leverages the capabilities of other well-known tools such as Metasploit and Mimikatz.[1]

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

How security teams should use this page

Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.

ATT&CK relationship table

Techniques used

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

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Domain ID Name Relationship / procedure
Enterprise T1090.004 Domain Fronting Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike has the ability to accept a value for HTTP Host Header to enable domain fronting.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1548.003 Sudo and Sudo Caching Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use sudo to run a command.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1553.002 Code Signing Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use self signed Java applets to execute signed applet attacks.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1059.007 JavaScript Sub-technique

The Cobalt Strike System Profiler can use JavaScript to perform reconnaissance actions.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020

Enterprise T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can start a VNC-based remote desktop server and tunnel the connection through the already established C2 channel.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCybereason Bumblebee August 2022

Enterprise T1106 Native API

Cobalt Strike's Beacon payload is capable of running shell commands without cmd.exe and PowerShell commands without powershell.exeCitationcobaltstrike manualCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020 Cobalt Strike can also use `CreateThreadpoolWait`, `SetThreadpoolWait`, and `MessageBoxA` for sandbox evasion and execution of embedded payloads in memory.CitationCisco Talos Qilin Ransomware OCT 2025

Enterprise T1550.002 Pass the Hash Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can perform pass the hash.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017

Enterprise T1078.002 Domain Accounts Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use known credentials to run commands and spawn processes as a domain user account.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobaltStrike Daddy May 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1027.005 Indicator Removal from Tools Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike includes a capability to modify the Beacon payload to eliminate known signatures or unpacking methods.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use a number of known techniques to bypass Windows UAC.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery

Cobalt Strike can determine the NetBios name and the IP addresses of targets machines including domain controllers.CitationCyberreason Anchor December 2019CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1569.002 Service Execution Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use PsExec to execute a payload on a remote host. It can also use Service Control Manager to start new services.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1005 Data from Local System

Cobalt Strike can collect data from a local system.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1055.001 Dynamic-link Library Injection Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike has the ability to load DLLs via reflective injection.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1056.001 Keylogging Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can track key presses with a keylogger module.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationAmnesty Intl. Ocean Lotus February 2021CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1197 BITS Jobs

Cobalt Strike can download a hosted "beacon" payload using BITSAdmin.CitationCobaltStrike Scripted Web DeliveryCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1055.012 Process Hollowing Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use process hollowing for execution.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1518 Software Discovery

The Cobalt Strike System Profiler can discover applications through the browser and identify the version of Java the target has.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1078.003 Local Accounts Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use known credentials to run commands and spawn processes as a local user account.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobaltStrike Daddy May 2017

Enterprise T1090.001 Internal Proxy Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can be configured to have commands relayed over a peer-to-peer network of infected hosts. This can be used to limit the number of egress points, or provide access to a host without direct internet access.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Cobalt Strike can exploit vulnerabilities such as MS14-058.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1113 Screen Capture

Cobalt Strike's Beacon payload is capable of capturing screenshots.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationAmnesty Intl. Ocean Lotus February 2021CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1564.010 Process Argument Spoofing Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use spoof arguments in spawned processes that execute beacon commands.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1112 Modify Registry

Cobalt Strike can modify Registry values within HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\\Excel\Security\AccessVBOM\ to enable the execution of additional code.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020

Enterprise T1069.002 Domain Groups Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can identify targets by querying account groups on a domain contoller.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1049 System Network Connections Discovery

Cobalt Strike can produce a sessions report from compromised hosts.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020

Enterprise T1001.003 Protocol or Service Impersonation Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can leverage the HTTP protocol for C2 communication, while hiding the actual data in either an HTTP header, URI parameter, the transaction body, or appending it to the URI.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020 Cobalt Strike has also added Host: ocsp.verisign.com to HTTP headers to mimic Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) traffic.CitationCisco Talos Qilin Ransomware OCT 2025

Enterprise T1134.004 Parent PID Spoofing Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can spawn processes with alternate PPIDs.CitationCobaltStrike Daddy May 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1134.001 Token Impersonation/Theft Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can steal access tokens from exiting processes.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1543.003 Windows Service Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can install a new service.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017

Enterprise T1059.005 Visual Basic Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use VBA to perform execution.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobaltStrike Daddy May 2017CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020

Enterprise T1055 Process Injection

Cobalt Strike can inject a variety of payloads into processes dynamically chosen by the adversary.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020CitationDFIR Conti Bazar Nov 2021

Enterprise T1007 System Service Discovery

Cobalt Strike can enumerate services on compromised hosts.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1070.006 Timestomp Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can timestomp any files or payloads placed on a target machine to help them blend in.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1083 File and Directory Discovery

Cobalt Strike can explore files on a compromised system.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1071.004 DNS Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use a custom command and control protocol that can be encapsulated in DNS. All protocols use their standard assigned ports.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1029 Scheduled Transfer

Cobalt Strike can set its Beacon payload to reach out to the C2 server on an arbitrary and random interval.Citationcobaltstrike manual

Enterprise T1069.001 Local Groups Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use net localgroup to list local groups on a system.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1059.001 PowerShell Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can execute a payload on a remote host with PowerShell. This technique does not write any data to disk.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCyberreason Anchor December 2019 Cobalt Strike can also use PowerSploit and other scripting frameworks to perform execution.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobaltStrike Daddy May 2017CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1021.004 SSH Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can SSH to a remote service.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1620 Reflective Code Loading

Cobalt Strike's execute-assembly command can run a .NET executable within the memory of a sacrificial process by loading the CLR.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1018 Remote System Discovery

Cobalt Strike uses the native Windows Network Enumeration APIs to interrogate and discover targets in a Windows Active Directory network.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1003.001 LSASS Memory Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can spawn a job to inject into LSASS memory and dump password hashes.CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1685 Disable or Modify Tools

Cobalt Strike has the ability to use Smart Applet attacks to disable the Java SecurityManager sandbox.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1012 Query Registry

Cobalt Strike can query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\\Excel\Security\AccessVBOM\ to determine if the security setting for restricting default programmatic access is enabled.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1087.002 Domain Account Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can determine if the user on an infected machine is in the admin or domain admin group.CitationCyberreason Anchor December 2019

Enterprise T1497.002 User Activity Based Checks Sub-technique

The Cobalt Strike loader can use the `MessageBoxA` API to prompt for user interaction as an anti-sandbox measure.CitationCisco Talos Qilin Ransomware OCT 2025

Enterprise T1030 Data Transfer Size Limits

Cobalt Strike will break large data sets into smaller chunks for exfiltration.Citationcobaltstrike manual

Enterprise T1046 Network Service Discovery

Cobalt Strike can perform port scans from an infected host.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1135 Network Share Discovery

Cobalt Strike can query shared drives on the local system.CitationCobalt Strike TTPs Dec 2017

Enterprise T1071.001 Web Protocols Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use a custom command and control protocol that can be encapsulated in HTTP or HTTPS. All protocols use their standard assigned ports.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020CitationSecurelist APT10 March 2021CitationKaspersky ToddyCat Check Logs October 2023

Enterprise T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography Sub-technique

Cobalt Strike can use RSA asymmetric encryption with PKCS1 padding to encrypt data sent to the C2 server.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020

Enterprise T1185 Browser Session Hijacking

Cobalt Strike can perform browser pivoting and inject into a user's browser to inherit cookies, authenticated HTTP sessions, and client SSL certificates.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Enterprise T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

Cobalt Strike can deobfuscate shellcode using a rolling XOR and decrypt metadata from Beacon sessions.CitationTalos Cobalt Strike September 2020CitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020 The Cobalt Strike loader component can also decrypt the .bss section of the Beacon binary prior to execution.CitationCisco Talos Qilin Ransomware OCT 2025

Enterprise T1572 Protocol Tunneling

Cobalt Strike uses a custom command and control protocol that is encapsulated in HTTP, HTTPS, or DNS. In addition, it conducts peer-to-peer communication over Windows named pipes encapsulated in the SMB protocol. All protocols use their standard assigned ports.Citationcobaltstrike manualCitationCobalt Strike Manual 4.3 November 2020

Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

Group Enterprise

G1054: MirrorFace

MirrorFace is a People's Republic of China (PRC)-aligned cyberespionage actor believed to be a subgroup under the menuPass umbrella based on targeting, tools, and infrastructure overlaps. MirrorFace has been active since at least 2019, at first exclusively targeting Japanese organizations across the media, defense, diplomatic, financial, manufacturing, and academic sectors. Subsequent MirrorFace operations included targets in Central Europe and featured use of LODEINFO, HiddenFace, and UPPERCUT malware.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Group Enterprise

G1053: Storm-0501

Storm-0501 is a financially motivated cyber criminal group that uses commodity and open-source tools to conduct ransomware operations. Storm-0501 has been active since 2021 and has previously been affiliated with Sabbath Ransomware and other Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) variants such as Hive, BlackCat, Hunters International, LockBit 3.0, and Embargo ransomware.[1][2][3][4]

Group Enterprise

G1046: Storm-1811

Storm-1811 is a financially-motivated entity linked to Black Basta ransomware deployment. Storm-1811 is notable for unique phishing and social engineering mechanisms for initial access, such as overloading victim email inboxes with non-malicious spam to prompt a fake "help desk" interaction leading to the deployment of adversary tools and capabilities.[1][2][3][4]

Group Enterprise

G0129: Mustang Panda

Mustang Panda is a China-based cyber espionage threat actor that has been conducting operations since at least 2012. Mustang Panda has been known to use tailored phishing lures and decoy documents to deliver malicious payloads. Mustang Panda has targeted government, diplomatic, and non-governmental organizations, including think tanks, religious institutions, and research entities, across the United States, Europe, and Asia, with notable activity in Russia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Vietnam. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Group Enterprise

G0027: Threat Group-3390

Threat Group-3390 is a Chinese threat group that has extensively used strategic Web compromises to target victims.[1] The group has been active since at least 2010 and has targeted organizations in the aerospace, government, defense, technology, energy, manufacturing and gambling/betting sectors.[2][3][4]

Group Enterprise

G0050: APT32

APT32 is a suspected Vietnam-based threat group that has been active since at least 2014. The group has targeted multiple private sector industries as well as foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists with a strong focus on Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia. They have extensively used strategic web compromises to compromise victims.[1][2][3]

Group Enterprise

G1022: ToddyCat

ToddyCat is a sophisticated threat group that has been active since at least 2020 using custom loaders and malware in multi-stage infection chains against government and military targets across Europe and Asia.[1][2]

Group Enterprise

G0073: APT19

APT19 is a Chinese-based threat group that has targeted a variety of industries, including defense, finance, energy, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, high tech, education, manufacturing, and legal services. In 2017, a phishing campaign was used to target seven law and investment firms. [1] Some analysts track APT19 and Deep Panda as the same group, but it is unclear from open source information if the groups are the same. [2] [3] [4]

Group Enterprise

G0037: FIN6

FIN6 is a cyber crime group that has stolen payment card data and sold it for profit on underground marketplaces. This group has aggressively targeted and compromised point of sale (PoS) systems in the hospitality and retail sectors.[1][2]

Group Enterprise

G0092: TA505

TA505 is a cyber criminal group that has been active since at least 2014. TA505 is known for frequently changing malware, driving global trends in criminal malware distribution, and ransomware campaigns involving Clop.[1][2][3][4][5]

Group Enterprise

G0052: CopyKittens

CopyKittens is an Iranian cyber espionage group that has been operating since at least 2013. It has targeted countries including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the U.S., Jordan, and Germany. The group is responsible for the campaign known as Operation Wilted Tulip.[1][2][3]

Group Enterprise

G0079: DarkHydrus

DarkHydrus is a threat group that has targeted government agencies and educational institutions in the Middle East since at least 2016. The group heavily leverages open-source tools and custom payloads for carrying out attacks. [1] [2]

Campaign Enterprise

C0015: C0015

C0015 was a ransomware intrusion during which the unidentified attackers used Bazar, Cobalt Strike, and Conti, along with other tools, over a 5 day period. Security researchers assessed the actors likely used the widely-circulated Conti ransomware playbook based on the observed pattern of activity and operator errors.[1]

Campaign Enterprise

C0017: C0017

C0017 was an APT41 campaign conducted between May 2021 and February 2022 that successfully compromised at least six U.S. state government networks through the exploitation of vulnerable Internet facing web applications. During C0017, APT41 was quick to adapt and use publicly-disclosed as well as zero-day vulnerabilities for initial access, and in at least two cases re-compromised victims following remediation efforts. The goals of C0017 are unknown, however APT41 was observed exfiltrating Personal Identifiable Information (PII).[1]

Campaign Enterprise

C0021: C0021

C0021 was a spearphishing campaign conducted in November 2018 that targeted public sector institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and private-sector corporations in the oil and gas, chemical, and hospitality industries. The majority of targets were located in the US, particularly in and around Washington D.C., with other targets located in Europe, Hong Kong, India, and Canada. C0021's technical artifacts, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and targeting overlap with previous suspected APT29 activity.[1][2]

Campaign Enterprise

C0018: C0018

C0018 was a month-long ransomware intrusion that successfully deployed AvosLocker onto a compromised network. The unidentified actors gained initial access to the victim network through an exposed server and used a variety of open-source tools prior to executing AvosLocker.[1][2]

Campaign Enterprise

C0024: SolarWinds Compromise

The SolarWinds Compromise was a sophisticated supply chain cyber operation conducted by APT29 that was discovered in mid-December 2020. APT29 used customized malware to inject malicious code into the SolarWinds Orion software build process that was later distributed through a normal software update; they also used password spraying, token theft, API abuse, spear phishing, and other supply chain attacks to compromise user accounts and leverage their associated access. Victims of this campaign included government, consulting, technology, telecom, and other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This activity has been labled the StellarParticle campaign in industry reporting.[1] Industry reporting also initially referred to the actors involved in this campaign as UNC2452, NOBELIUM, Dark Halo, and SolarStorm.[2][3][4][5][1][6][7][8]

In April 2021, the US and UK governments attributed the SolarWinds Compromise to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR); public statements included citations to APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes.[9][10][11] The US government assessed that of the approximately 18,000 affected public and private sector customers of Solar Winds’ Orion product, a much smaller number were compromised by follow-on APT29 activity on their systems.[12]

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19.1
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10002cfaa9d10df6...
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19.1 1.14 Current bundle 10002cfaa9d1…
Raw source

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  1. [1]
    cobaltstrike manual

    Strategic Cyber LLC. (2017, March 14). Cobalt Strike Manual. Retrieved May 24, 2017.

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    mitre-attack S0154
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