When we consider the attack kill chain, Empire resides after the
exploitation phase. Since this is a post‑exploitation tool,
it gives you the ability to escalate privileges,
perform lateral movement,
evade from defenses, and various actions, such as
uploading or downloading of files.
Empire has the ability to play across various tactics. In this
course, we will focus purely on command and control.
The techniques that we will cover involves ingress tool
transfer, remote access software,
non‑standard ports, and multi hop proxy capabilities.
I am using Kali Linux version 2020.3.
And of course, I've performed all of the updates,
which you can do too using apt‑get update and apt‑get upgrade.
This will enable you to install any latest updates and
upgrades in the operating system.