Publications

Outflank turned ten this year and we’re celebrating by sharing our journey and giving away swag you can’t buy anywhere. 

Outflank started in 2016, when Cobalt Strike was still only a few years old, BOFs did not exist yet, EDRs were just AVs with a fancy name and the same easy bypasses, and generative AI was firmly science fiction.  

At the very beginning, we had no polished website, no elaborate launch campaign, and barely even a company name. What we did have was a four-headed team eager to kick ass, an email address, enough red-team work to keep us very busy and a temporary ‘coming soon’ website with nothing more than just a red hoodie stock photo. 

That temporary page was intended to be there for ‘just a few weeks’. It stayed up for nearly a year as we were simply focused on client work.

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Fitting lossless rainbow tables on a 4 TB disk and cracking NetNTLMv1 with WebGPU and ntlmrain.

Google’s release of the NetNTLMv1 rainbow tables made it much more practical to recover an NT hash from a NetNTLMv1 response captured with the fixed challenge 1122334455667788, further reducing the needed compute power.

NetNTLMv1 cracking is a problem I’ve kept returning to over the past several years. The recent table release prompted me to explore whether the process could be made cheaper, faster and easier to run. This post describes the result: a compact indexed table format, a WebGPU browser client and a native command-line tool.

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In this blog, we want to do more than point at a new capability inside OST. We want to show how external researchers can bring their own tools into the platform, using InfraRED as a practical example of what that process can look like from both sides. InfraRED was created by Dominic Penn-Newman, and in this post we cover how the collaboration started, what it takes to turn a promising tool into something OST customers can rely on, and how Dominic experienced the process as the developer. Let’s go.

Why Do We Integrate External Projects Into OST?

Outflank Security Tooling (OST) is Outflank’s main product: a commercial offering designed to make life easier for red teams. OST brings together 30+ tools, a substantial knowledge base with 15k+ lines of documentation and 40+ hours of video content,

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For those who don’t know me, my name is Daniel Duggan, known online as RastaMouse. I spent over a decade working as a penetration tester and red teamer across the public and private sector, before founding Zero-Point Security in 2018. My mission was to build the kind of training I wish had existed when I was coming up: practical, accessible, cost-effective, and rooted in real adversary tradecraft.

My Red Team Ops and Red Team Ops II training courses are the fruits of that labour, which are now recognised across multiple industry sectors including financial services, military, manufacturing, and naturally, security consultancies.

In 2025, Fortra and Zero-Point Security collaborated to launch a dedicated Cobalt Strike training course, giving operators a hands-on foundation in red team assessments and adversary simulations, built directly around the tool.

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This is a joint blog written by Stan Hegt, Pieter Ceelen, and Will Burgess.

Today, we’re launching Cobalt Strike Research Labs (CS:RL), a new Fortra offering that unites the research expertise of the Cobalt Strike and Outflank teams. CS:RL delivers cutting-edge, ready-to-use research tooling for Cobalt Strike, including custom UDRLs, Sleep Masks, UDC2 channels, and post-exploitation capabilities. Most importantly, it provides the Cobalt Strike team with a platform to deliver experimental beta features, test ideas, and gather feedback before moving proven features into the main product.

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Hey everyone! I’m Mariusz Banach (mgeeky) and I’m excited to introduce myself as the newest member of the Outflank team.

For those who don’t know me, I’ve spent years in the trenches as a red teamer and have trained others to do the same, delivering public and private IT security trainings on malware analysis, initial access, evasion tactics, and more.

However, I have spent the last few years building and managing Red Macros Factory (RMF), an Initial Access Framework designed to take the pain out of the weaponization phase that kicks off every red team engagement. RMF represents three years of research-driven development, battle-tested across numerous engagements. The philosophy behind it is simple: red team tools, by a red teamer, for red teamers.

Sound familiar? That’s exactly why I’m here.

As part of joining Outflank,

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