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Published inSep 2018
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Himanshu Sharma
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Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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Harpreet Singh
Harpreet Singh
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Harpreet Singh

Harpreet is a professional with 8+ years of experience in the field of Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Research & Red Teaming. He is the author of "Hands-On: Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit" and "Hands-On: Red Team Tactics" published by Packt Publishing. He's also an OSCP, OSWP, CRTP certified professional. Over the years of his experience, Harpreet has acquired the Offensive & Defensive skill set. He is a professional who specializes in Wireless & network exploitation including but not limited to Mobile exploitation, Web Application exploitation and he has also performed few Red Team Engagements in Banks & Financial Groups.
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Slack notification for Empire agents

Starting with Empire and getting an agent is easy, but what if we tried to perform a mass phishing attack on the whole organization? How will we know if we got an agent alive or not? What if the agent connects back to our Empire C2 in the middle of the night and we're not online to check it?

It may not seem a serious issue, but a barrage of agents is difficult to manage. For cases like these, let's use Slack. Slack is a messaging application which allows teams to communicate. We can use Slack as the alert application to get an alert whenever an agent connects back to the Empire C2.

Let's register with Slack first by visiting https://slack.com. Once registered, open up the URL shown in the following screenshot to create a legacy API token:

An issued legacy token will look something like this:

Empire gives us the option to add...

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Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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Harpreet Singh

Harpreet is a professional with 8+ years of experience in the field of Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Research & Red Teaming. He is the author of "Hands-On: Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit" and "Hands-On: Red Team Tactics" published by Packt Publishing. He's also an OSCP, OSWP, CRTP certified professional. Over the years of his experience, Harpreet has acquired the Offensive & Defensive skill set. He is a professional who specializes in Wireless & network exploitation including but not limited to Mobile exploitation, Web Application exploitation and he has also performed few Red Team Engagements in Banks & Financial Groups.
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