What You Need to Know About Next Gen EDR

Endpoint Detection & Response EDR is the main mode of cybersecurity utilized by many organizations. Already recognized in 2012 as its own category, EDR was pushed as the ideal response to the rapidly changing threatscape that until then had been dealt with though not so successfully primarily...

Cynet 360: The Next Generation of EDR

Many organizations regard Endpoint Detection and Response EDR as their main protection against breaches. EDR, as a category, emerged in 2012 and was rapidly acknowledged as the best answer to the numerous threats that legacy AV unsuccessfully struggled to overcome – exploits, zero-day malware and...

MSNM-S - Multivariate Statistical Network Monitoring-Sensor

MSNM-S Multivariate Statistical Network Monitoring-Sensor shows the practical suitability of the approaches found in PCA-MSNM and in Hierarchical PCA-MSNM works. The first one present the MSNM approach and new multivariate statistical methodology for network anomaly detection while the second one...

Fearing WannaCry-Level Danger, Enterprises Wrestle with BlueKeep

The nightmare vision of a “mega-worm” global BlueKeep infection could be closer to becoming reality as working exploits are now becoming available to the public, and there’s evidence that adversaries are actively scanning for the vulnerability. Researchers weighed in with Threatpost about how...

Dashboards to Use on Palo Alto Networks for Effective Management

Enterprises should expect to see more cyberattacks launched against them. The data that they now gather and store have made their infrastructures key targets for hackers. Customer data and intellectual property can be sold in the black market for profit, and sensitive information can also be used...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.15.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Three days ago, an updated version – Sysdig Falco v0.15.0 – was released. It has been some time since I last blogged about this open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. This release incorporates a lot of rule updates that are now also tagged the for...

Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape

Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...

When Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is not enough

As cybercriminals continue to validate the reality that no prevention-based security control is going to stop every threat every time, companies are expanding beyond prevention-only approaches and closing the gap with endpoint detection and response solutions. But as we consider this strategy, on...

Artificial Intelligence: A Cybersecurity Tool for Good, and Sometimes Bad

Artificial intelligence is the new golden ring for cybersecurity developers, thanks to its potential to not just automate functions at scale but also to make contextual decisions based on what it learns over time. This can have big implications for security personnel—all too often, companies simp...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

An Intelligent Network Security Scanner: Red Team Arsenal

Red Team Arsenal is a web/network security scanner which has the capability to scan all company’s online facing assets and provide an holistic security view of any security anomalies. It’s a closely linked collections of security engines to conduct/simulate attacks and monitor public facing asset...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer P2P application. For more information, read Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak. Just before noon on March 6 PST, Windows Defender Antivirus blocked more than 80,000 instances of...

Why Stand-Alone IDPS Matters More Than Ever, and the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

First, What is IDPS and Why Do We Care? Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS emerged as an improvement on Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. IDS are out-of-band collectors of network traffic that analyze the information and provide alerts. The “eureka” of IPS was that instead of just alerting, why not...

Wapiti 3.0.0 - The Web-Application Vulnerability Scanner

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your websites or web applications. It performs "black-box" scans it does not study the source code of the web application by crawling the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets the list of...

PortEx - Java library to analyse Portable Executable files with a special focus on malware analysis and PE malformation robustness

PortEx is a Java library for static malware analysis of Portable Executable files. Its focus is on PE malformation robustness, and anomaly detection. PortEx is written in Java and Scala, and targeted at Java applications. Features Reading header information from: MSDOS Header, COFF File Header,...

Machine Learning: Identify the Unpredictable – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

When it comes to identifying insider threats, the fundamental challenge is how to determine when data access appears out of the ordinary for a typical user or system, and of those instances, which ones are dangerous versus merely unusual. A lot of solutions today serve up so many policy violation...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Mr.SIP - SIP-Based Audit and Attack Tool

Mr.SIP is a tool developed to audit and simulate SIP-based attacks. Originally it was developed to be used in academic work to help developing novel SIP-based DDoS attacks and defense approaches and then as an idea to convert it to a fully functional SIP-based penetration testing tool, it has bee...

PPEE (Puppy) - Professional PE file Explorer for reversers and malware researchers

There are lots of tools out there for statically analyzing malicious binaries, but they are ordinary tools for ordinary files. Puppy is a lightweight yet strong tool for static investigation of suspicious files. A companion plugin is also provided to query the file in the well-known malware...