Hackers of all sorts are getting an early Christmas present this year in the form of a resurrected PowerShell Empire post-exploitation framework all wrapped up in Python 3.

Development of the PowerShell Empire framework, a well-known penetration-testing tool, has stopped this week after its creators said the project reached its initial goal.. Started by several ...

Lightweight and modular. Empire was released in 2015 at the BSides Las Vegas security conference to show how PowerShell could be used beyond the infection stage of an attack.