Protect against phishing with Attack Simulation Training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Sophisticated cyberattacks are on the rise, with email phishing as the most common attack vector. We’ve seen it all over the news with stories like Hafnium that targeted Exchange servers1 or the Nobelium attack against SolarWinds,2 which show just how easy it is for bad actors to distribute a...

Protect against phishing with Attack Simulation Training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Sophisticated cyberattacks are on the rise, with email phishing as the most common attack vector. We’ve seen it all over the news with stories like Hafnium that targeted Exchange servers1 or the Nobelium attack against SolarWinds,2 which show just how easy it is for bad actors to distribute a...

Guide: How to Hack API in 60 minutes or API Threats Simulation with Open-Source Tools

What is API? API is the abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, which is a product middle person that permits two applications to converse with one another. Useful link: Api security tutorial for beginners and professionals What Is API Testing: Benefits, Types, How To Start ‍OpenAPI...

My thoughts on the “2021 Gartner Market Guide for Vulnerability Assessment”. What about the quality?

The Gartner Vulnerability Management Reports are one of the few marketing reports that I try to read regularly. This started back in the days when I was working for a VM vendor doing competitive analysis. Gartner is one of the few organizations that think about Vulnerability Assessment and...

Stopping Carbanak+FIN7: How Microsoft led in the MITRE Engenuity® ATT&CK® Evaluation

In MITRE Engenuity’s recent Carbanak+FIN7 ATT&CK Evaluation, Microsoft demonstrated that we can stop advanced, real-world attacks by threat actor groups with our industry-leading security capabilities. In this year’s evaluation, we engaged our unified Microsoft 365 Defender stack, with...

vulhub

This is an open-source collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments. It is a toolkit for defensive blue-team research and threat mitigation, providing a platform for testing and analyzing vulnerabilities in a controlled environment. The repository contains a variety of vulnerable...

Microsoft unifies SIEM and XDR to help stop advanced attacks

For all of us in security, the last twelve months have been an incredible series of challenges—from balancing remote work with family priorities, to helping build resilient businesses, and protecting against the latest attacks. 2020 showed us that while we have made great progress, there is still...

Red Team — Automation or Simulation?

What is the difference between a penetration test and a red team exercise? The common understanding is that a red team exercise is a pen-test on steroids, but what does that mean? While both programs are performed by ethical hackers, whether they are in-house residents or contracted externally, t...

How to detect and mitigate phishing risks with Microsoft and Terranova Security

Detect, assess, and remediate phishing risks across your organization A successful phishing attack requires just one person to take the bait. That’s why so many organizations fall victim to these cyber threats. To reduce this human risk, you need a combination of smart technology and people-centr...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.9.0

Infection Monkey 1.9.0, the open source breach and attack simulation tool was released a few hours ago - just in time for BlackHat/DefCon 2020. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Updates include an expanded list of MITRE ATT&CK...

nccfsas

Introduction This repo...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.7.0

Infection Monkey 1.7.0 was released a while ago. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a big, exciting release, with a ton of new features and improvements and as always, this post will list down the changes for this version. Wh...

New 4CAN tool helps identify vulnerabilities in on-board car computers

By Alex DeTrano, Jason Royes, and Matthew Valites. Executive summary Modern automobiles contain hundreds of sensors and mechanics that communicate via computers to understand their surrounding environment. Those components provide real-time information to drivers, connect the vehicle to a global...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.3

PenTestIT RSS Feed Some days ago, Infection Monkey 1.6.3 was released. The first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a small bugfix release, mostly around integration and packaging. It contains two user facing changes as well. What is...

When Time is of the Essence – Testing Controls Against the Latest Threats Faster

A new threat has hit head the headlines Robinhood anyone?, and you need to know if you're protected right now. What do you do? Traditionally, you would have to go with one of the options below. Option 1 – Manually check that IoCs have been updated across your security controls. This would require...

When Time is of the Essence – Testing Controls Against the Latest Threats Faster

A new threat has hit head the headlines Robinhood anyone?, and you need to know if you're protected right now. What do you do? Traditionally, you would have to go with one of the options below. Option 1 – Manually check that IoCs have been updated across your security controls. This would require...

PRYTEK meetup: Breach and Attack Simulation or Automated Pentest?

Last Tuesday, November 27, I spoke at "Business Asks for Cyber Attacks" meetup organized by PRYTEK investment platform. The event was held at the PRYTEK Moscow office in a beautiful XIX century building of a former textile manufactory. The goal of the meetup was to talk about new approaches in...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed I'm sure you must have read my previous post title the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. In that post, I briefly mentioned about the Guardicore Infection Monkey. Good news now is that it has been updated! We now have Infection Monkey 1.6.1. An important change about this versi...

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v2.0 Released

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v2.0 Released The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to...