The Average SIEM Deployment Takes 6 Months. Don’t Be Average.

If you’re part of the huge growth in demand for cloud-based SIEM Security Information and Event Management, claim your copy of the new Gartner® Report: “How to Deploy a SIEM Solution Successfully.” Depending on what SIEM you choose, and how you approach the process, getting to operational and...

Exploit for CVE-2022-30190

POC CVE-2022-30190 : CVE 0-day MS Offic RCE aka msdt follina...

Automating your Microsoft security suite with D3 XGEN SOAR

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. There are certain pain points in the average security operations center SOC that, no matter what else changes in the security landscape, stay among the most entrenched problems. You...

Microsoft launches Defender for Business to help protect small and medium businesses

Happy National Small Business Week1 in the United States! Small and medium businesses SMBs are the bedrock of our economy, representing 90 percent of businesses and more than 50 percent of employment worldwide.2 As we celebrate their innovation and contributions this week, it’s important to...

EDRSandblast - Tool That Weaponize A Vulnerable Signed Driver To Bypass EDR Detections And LSASS Protections

EDRSandBlast is a tool written in C that weaponize a vulnerable signed driver to bypass EDR detections Kernel callbacks and ETW TI provider and LSASS protections. Multiple userland unhooking techniques are also implemented to evade userland monitoring. As of release, combination of userland...

Shhhloader - SysWhispers Shellcode Loader

Shhhloader is a SysWhispers Shellcode Loader that is currently a Work in Progress. It takes raw shellcode as input and compiles a C++ stub that has been integrated with SysWhispers in order to bypass AV/EDR. The included python builder will work on any Linux system that has Mingw-w64 installed. T...

Malwarebytes Evaluation of the MITRE ENGENUITY ATT&CK Round 4 Emulations

The results of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation of the Wizard Spider and Sandworm adversaries were officially released1 last week. We are very proud of the Malwarebytes EDR results in the MITRE Engenuity test, which are the direct reflection of a relentless core EDR team and the learnings fr...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2022. Microsoft received one of the highest scores in the strategy category and strength of current offering category. In the Forrester Wave assessment, Microsoft Defender f...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2022. Microsoft received one of the highest scores in the strategy category and strength of current offering category. In the Forrester Wave assessment, Microsoft Defender f...

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965): details and mitigations

Last week researchers found the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 in Spring – the open source Java framework. Using the vulnerability, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on a remote web server, which makes CVE-2022-22965 a critical threat, given the Spring frameworks popularity. By analog...

EDR Is Dead. Long Live Multi-Vector EDR.

News of EDR’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. Fact is: older approaches to EDR have to move over. There’s a new solution now: Multi-Vector EDR. This blog reviews the highlights of our latest release of this critically important app on the Qualys Cloud Platform. Although it now seems like a...

Qualys Multi-Vector EDR Excels in 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation

MITRE evaluated Qualys Multi-Vector EDR against competing alternatives, and the results are in. This blog reviews the basics of MITRE ATT&CK evaluation, how our EDR solution performed, and how to interpret the ratings. MITRE Engenuity has released the results of round 4 of its ATT&CK Evaluations...

Microsoft protects against human-operated ransomware across the full attack chain in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

For the fourth year in a row, the independent MITRE Engenuity Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK® Evaluations demonstrated Microsoft’s strong detection and protection capabilities thanks to our multi-platform extended detection and response XDR defenses. The ever-evolvin...

Demystifying XDR: The Time for Implementation Is Now

In previous installments of our conversation with Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen on all things extended detection and response XDR, she helped us understand not only the foundations of the product category and its relationship with security information and event management SIEM, but also the role...

Detection of ‘Leave Behinds’ From Nation-State Actors

Who left the backdoor open? By Trellix · March 28, 2022 In our recent report, In the Crosshairs: Companies and Nation-State Cyber Threats, over 800 IT decision makers from around the world were interviewed on their experiences with nation-state cyber attacks. One of the questions sought to...

SysWhispers3 - AV/EDR Evasion Via Direct System Calls

SysWhispers helps with evasion by generating header/ASM files implants can use to make direct system calls. Why on earth didn't I create a PR to SysWhispers2? The reason for SysWhispers3 to be a standalone version are many, but the most important are: SysWhispers3 is the de-facto "fork" used by...

Use This Definitive RFP Template to Effectively Evaluate XDR solutions

A new class of security tools is emerging that promises to significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of threat detection and response. Emerging Extended Detection and Response XDR solutions aim to aggregate and correlate telemetry from multiple detection controls and then synthesize...

RefleXXion - A Utility Designed To Aid In Bypassing User-Mode Hooks Utilised By AV/EPP/EDR Etc

Introduction RefleXXion is a utility designed to aid in bypassing user-mode hooks utilised by AV/EPP/EDR etc. In order to bypass the user-mode hooks, it first collects the syscall numbers of the NtOpenFile, NtCreateSection, NtOpenSection and NtMapViewOfSection found in the LdrpThunkSignature arra...

White House Executive Order – Navigating EDR Implementation

White House Executive Order – Navigating Endpoint Detection and Response EDR Implementation Tom Gann · March 08, 2022 This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. I encourage you to read those you may have missed...

White House Executive Order – Navigating EDR Implementation

White House Executive Order – Navigating Endpoint Detection and Response EDR Implementation Tom Gann · March 08, 2022 This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. I encourage you to read those you may have missed...