Hacks

The Origin of Armitage’s Hail Mary Mass Exploitation Feature:- ---------------------------------------------- Several times now, an author has introduced Armitage, and the main value add to the hacking process that they emphasize is the “devastating” Hail Mary attack. I’m most proud of Armitage’s red team collaboration capability–it’s why I built the tool in the first place. The Hail Mary attack? Meh. That said, I’d like to share with you how the Hail Mary attack came to be. I released Armitage in late November 2010. In a December 2010 PaulDotCom episode , Larry reviewed Armitage. I’m a PaulDotCom fan and so I was very excited to watch this. He tried out an Armitage menu that launched the now defunct db_autopwn and a lot of the conversation in that review centered around the poor behavior of that particular feature. For those that don’t remember, db_autopwn is a former Metasploit Framework feature to automatically launch exploits against everything i...