Europol disrupts about 600 abusive Cobalt Strike servers

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 Europol-led operation between June 24 and 28 targeted older, unlicensed versions of the tool and flagged abusive IP addresses operating from multiple countries.

“Law enforcement has teamed up with the private sector to fight against the abuse of a legitimate security tool by criminals who were using it …

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