Fortra, Microsoft and Health-ISAC partnership reduced unauthorized copies of red team tool over the last two years.
Fortra’s Cobalt Strike has been a widely used weapon for a variety of cybercriminals and nation-state threat actors, who frequently use cracked copies of the red teaming tool to establish command-and-control communications and persistent access inside victim environments.
Fortra, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) formed a partnership two years ago to reduce malicious activity stemming from Cobalt Strike. Those efforts have cut the number of unauthorized copies in the wild by 80%, Fortra said in a blog post last Friday.
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