Not Your Grandfather’s Empire I’ve wanted to put this blog together since returning home from DEFCON. Anytime we ran into someone who recognized our swag, they mentioned how much they loved Empire back in the day and didn’t realize it was being actively maintained. This made me reflect on all [...]
During a recent engagement, we were asked to employ Turla’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) using IronNetInjector. This is not a toolkit that we had a lot of experience with and upon doing some OSINT, it seemed to be pretty hard to come by. Specifically, no one seemed to be ...
Empire 4.2 was just finalized over the weekend and we are excited to share some of the new features. This version has added some new capabilities to keep our threat emulation capabilities in line with current adversary TTPs. We have added a brand new IronPython stager, which can be compiled ...
In case you don’t check our commit history on our GitHub on a daily basis, Empire 4.1 and Starkiller 1.9 were released to Kali and Sponsors this week! This release has some much-needed quality of life updates that include new Starkiller interfaces, IronPython3 integration, and a new plugin ability, Hooks & Filters. Now before you read about all ...
Are you an infosec developer, blogger, Blue Teamer, or general misfit and want to contribute to the Empire? Well, here’s your chance! We are opening the doors a bit to try out a pilot program for the infosec community.
The release of Empire 4.0 is just around the corner and we wanted to take some time to walkthrough some of its new features. So what is Empire 4.0? It is a refactor of the internal structure of Empire, the addition of C# capabilities, and a revamped user interface. This ...
One of the lesser-known features in Empire is the ability to use alternative Command and Control (C2) methods. Specifically, we can leverage the Dropbox API as a C2 channel, which can utilize existing architecture inside a network and obfuscate web traffic. If you are interested in checking other listener options, ...
Last week we announced a new partnership with Kali for Starkiller and Empire. You can read up more about that in our previous post. The purpose of this post is to outline the new features in Empire and Starkiller. Starkiller For those who may have missed the last announcement, Starkiller ...
Beginning January, we will be granting Kali users and Sponsors 30-day exclusive early access to Empire and Starkiller before the code gets publicly released to our repositories, you can check out more in their blog post.
The new Empire CLI is out and includes some big changes to the user experience. We rebuilt the CLI to interact with the Empire team server through the API. These changes may seem small, but it now allows multi-user access to the server through the CLI and gives users a ...
