The evolution of a matrix: How ATT&CK for Containers was built

Note: The content of this post is being released jointly with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense. It is co-authored with Chris Ante and Matthew Bajzek. The Center post can be found here. As containers become a major part of many organizations’ IT workloads, it becomes crucial to consider the...

The evolution of a matrix: How ATT&CK for Containers was built

Note: The content of this post is being released jointly with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense. It is co-authored with Chris Ante and Matthew Bajzek. The Center post can be found here. As containers become a major part of many organizations’ IT workloads, it becomes crucial to consider the...

Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise IOCs,...

Managed Detection and Response in Q4 2020

Download full report PDF As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, and security solutions require more resources to analyze the huge amount of data gathered every day, many organizations feel the need for advanced security services that can deal with this growing complexity in real time, 24/7...

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat APT group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25050

netCDF in GDAL 2.4.2 through 3.0.4 has a stack-based buffer overflow in nc4getatt called from nc4getatttc and ncgetatttext and in uffdcleanup called from netCDFDataset::netCDFDataset and netCDFDataset::netCDFDataset...

capa 2.0: Better, Stronger, Faster

We are excited to announce version 2.0 of our open-source tool called capa. capa automatically identifies capabilities in programs using an extensible rule set. The tool supports both malware triage and deep dive reverse engineering. If you haven’t heard of capa before, or need a refresher, check...

CISA Releases Analysis of FY20 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments

CISA has released an analysis and infographic detailing the findings from the Risk and Vulnerability Assessments RVAs conducted in Fiscal Year FY 2020 across multiple sectors. The analysis details a sample attack path a cyber threat actor could take to compromise an organization with weaknesses...

This Week in Security News July 2, 2021

Nefilim ransomware attack through a MITRE Att lens and PoC exploit circulating for critical Windows Print Spooler bug, and more...

MITRE ATT&CK® mappings released for built-in Azure security controls

The Security Stack Mappings for Azure research project was published today, introducing a library of mappings that link built-in Azure security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK® techniques they mitigate against. Microsoft once again worked with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense and other Center...

MITRE ATT&CK® mappings released for built-in Azure security controls

The Security Stack Mappings for Azure research project was published today, introducing a library of mappings that link built-in Azure security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK® techniques they mitigate against. Microsoft once again worked with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense and other Center...

Nefilim Ransomware Attack Through a MITRE Att&ck Lens

Follow the story of Company X as they suffer an attack from the notorious modern ransomware family, Nefilim, and their affiliates, to learn how you can better mitigate against the common tactic and techniques used in these attacks...

MITRE Engenuity™ ATT&CK Evaluations & Framework

With the MITRE ATT Framework, you can simplify security communications across your organization while providing visibility to your security teams...

Kill Chains: Part 3→What’s Next

Life, the Universe, and Kill Chains As the final entry in this blog series, we want to quickly recap what we have previously discussed and also look into the possible future of kill chains. If you haven’t already done so, please make sure to read the previous 2 entries in this series: Kill chains...

MITRE introduces D3FEND framework

The US National Security Agency NSA has announced it will fund the development of a knowledge base of defensive countermeasures for the most common techniques used by malicious threat actors. The project will be made available through MITRE and will be called D3FEND as it complements MITRE’s...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Attack Surface Analysis Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming

Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming This is the third and final installment in our 2021 series around attack surface analysis. In part 1 I offered a description and the value and challenge of vulnerability assessment. Part 2 explored the why and how of conducting penetration testing and gave some tips...