Special: Coordinated Release of Detection Rules for CobaltStike Abuse

Guest: Greg Sinclair, Security Engineer @ Google Cloud Topics: Could you tell us a bit about your background and how you ended up here at Google? Also, tell us about your team here? We're very excited about the release of the CobaltStrike rules. Could you share more about what they are looking for and second why this is so valuable? How did CobaltStrike come to be so widely used by bad guys? When you were doing this research what was the most surprising thing you uncovered? Could you tell us about the coordinated disclosure aspects of this work? In the past you've contributed research to our Threat Horizons reports, could you tell us about that? Resources: Making CobaltStike harder for threat actors to abuse blog CobaltStrike YARA-L rules CobaltStrike site “Cobalt Strike Usage Explodes Among Cybercrooks” Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #4 Is Out! Detection as Code? No, Detection as COOKING!