Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy

Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy By James Murphy, Ale Houspanossian, Leandro Velasco LV and Ilya Kolmanovich · November 14, 2024 What does it take to transform threat actor research into detection engineering? If we look at threat intelligence at its core, then we...

Understanding the Initial Stages of Web Shell and VPN Threats: An MXDR Analysis

While cyberattacks that employ web shells and VPN compromise are not particularly novel, they are still prevalent. The recent incidents that Trend Micro MXDR analyzed highlight the importance of behavioral analysis and anomaly detection in security measures...

New Case Study: The Evil Twin Checkout Page

Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an "evil twin" disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout page, not a checkout page? When...

Androxgh0st Malware Compromises Servers Worldwide for Botnet Attack

By Deeba Ahmed Veriti Research exposes surge in Androxgh0st attacks, exploiting CVEs and building botnets for credential theft. Patch systems, monitor for web shells, and use behavioral analysis to protect yourself. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Androxgh0st Malware...

Threat Roundup for June 16 to June 23

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between June 16 and June 23. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Roundup for May 20 to May 27

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 20 and May 27. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Roundup for March 18 to March 25

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 18 and March 25. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral... This is on...

Ditch the Alert Cannon: Modernizing IDS is a Security Must-Do

After more than 20 years of underwhelming results, security leaders have accepted their intrusion detection system IDS programs as no more than a compliance checkoff. It’s no secret that IDS’s reliance on bi-modal signatures is brittle, easily evaded and often referred to as an “alert cannon.” Ti...

AvosLocker enters the ransomware scene, asks for partners

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade In mid-July we responded to an incident that involved an attack on a Microsoft Exchange server. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. While examining the...

Aura - Python Source Code Auditing And Static Analysis On A Large Scale

Aura is a static analysis framework developed as a response to the ever-increasing threat of malicious packages and vulnerable code published on PyPI. Project goals: provide an automated monitoring system over uploaded packages to PyPI, alert on anomalies that can either indicate an ongoing attac...

capa: Automatically Identify Malware Capabilities

capa is the FLARE team’s newest open-source tool for analyzing malicious programs. Our tool provides a framework for the community to encode, recognize, and share behaviors that we’ve seen in malware. Regardless of your background, when you use capa, you invoke decades of cumulative reverse...

Reputation Intelligence At Your Fingertips

How important is a reputation? American entertainer Will Rogers once famously said, “it takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” Our reputations are valuable commodities that establish rapport and clout among our colleagues, partners, and customers. A good...

Get Ready for the Microsoft Windows 7 EOL on January 14th

January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hot fixes for attacks in the wild will not be available, effectively making any...

Are You Ready for Microsoft Windows 7 End of Support on 14th January 2020?

January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hotfixes for attacks in the wild will not be available, effectively making any...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: DeathRansom Ransomware

During mid-November, a new ransomware named ‘DeathRansom” was found being distributed. Similar to the other variants of ransomware, it will perform the deletion of volume shadow copies to ensure all the data cannot be restored easily. After the DeathRansom performs file encryption, it will drop...

New version of IcedID Trojan uses steganographic payloads

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, with contributions from @siriurz and Jérôme Segura. Security firm Proofpoint recently published a report about a series of malspam campaigns they attribute to a threat actor called TA2101. Originally targeting German and Italian users with Cobalt Strik...

CAPE - Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction

CAPE is a malware sandbox. It is derived from Cuckoo and is designed to automate the process of malware analysis with the goal of extracting payloads and configuration from malware. This allows CAPE to detect malware based on payload signatures, as well as automating many of the goals of malware...

Google Analytics Emerges as a Phishing Tool

Cybercriminals are leveraging key technical markers used in web analytics—particularly Google Analytics—to create more sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks, new research has found. However, this also makes them more susceptible to detection by organizations defending their sites against...

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...

Partner Perspectives: From Alert to Action: How VMRay Provides Carbon Black with Detail-Rich Threat Intelligence

Good things happen when two leaders in their respective fields bring together their complementary capabilities. That’s the case with Carbon Black’s deep expertise in endpoint detection and response EDR and VMRay’s singular focus on dynamic malware analysis. The sum ends up being even greater than...