Brut. is a privately owned company headquartered in France, founded in 2016, and employs approximately 440 people. Functioning as a tier 1 media tech buyer, the company specializes in online audio and video media, creating short-form video content.
On March 14, 2026, a deep-dive report highlighted Brutus's use of WebAssembly for detecting and interacting with sticky-keys backdoors to harden Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), indicating a practical shift in both red-team tooling and defender automation. This follows a March 13, 2026, account detailing how a penetration test uncovered the sticky keys backdoor with Brutus and WebAssembly when a team member pressed the shift key five times at an RDP login screen, leading to unauthenticated remote code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.