UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.8.0

Infection Monkey 1.8.0 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, which enhances the Monkey’s capabilities. The Monkey now maps its actions to the MITRE ATT knowledge base and as...

Third-Party Tests Rate VMware Carbon Black Cloud as a Leader in Protection, Detection; Platform Delivers 379% ROI for Customers

The biggest endpoint protection question for organizations right now is whether or not to upgrade from legacy approaches to cloud-native platforms with built-in EDR. If you boil this decision down to three key factors stronger protection, clearer visibility, and faster resolution, the choice...

OSSEM - A Tool To Assess Data Quality

A tool to assess data quality, built on top of the awesome OSSEM project. Mission Answer the question: I want to start hunting ATT&CK techniques, what log sources and events are more suitable? Create transparency on the strengths and weaknesses of your log sources Provide an easy way to evaluate...

Microsoft Threat Protection leads in real-world detection in MITRE ATT&CK evaluation

The latest round of MITRE ATT&CK evaluations proved yet again that Microsoft customers can trust they are fully protected even in the face of such an advanced attack as APT29. When looking at protection results out of the box, without configuration changes, Microsoft Threat Protection MTP: Provid...

Elemental - An MITRE ATTACK Threat Library

Elemental is a centralized threat library of MITRE ATT&CK techniques, Atomic Red Team tests, and over 280 Sigma rules. It provides an alternative way to explore the ATT&CK dataset, mapping relevant Atomic Red Team tests and Sigma rules to their respective technique. Elemental allows defenders to...

Trend Micro’s Top Ten MITRE Evaluation Considerations

The introduction of the MITRE ATT&CK evaluations is a welcomed addition to the third-party testing arena. The ATT&CK framework, and the evaluations in particular, have gone such a long way in helping advance the security industry as a whole, and the individual security products serving the market...

Getting ATT&CKed By A Cozy Bear And Being Really Happy About It: What MITRE Evaluations Are, and How To Read Them

Full disclosure: I am a security product testing nerd. I’ve been following the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for a while, and this week the results were released of the most recent evaluation using APT29 otherwise known as COZY BEAR. First, here’s a snapshot of the Trend eval results as I understand the...

MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Demonstrates the Power of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

MITRE has released the results for its latest endpoint detection and response EDR product evaluation using its now industry-standard open methodology, the ATT&CK® framework. This year’s results further demonstrate why VMware Carbon Black, now a two-time participant, is a top choice of security an...

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...

Kubernetes Security

Attack matrix for Kubernetes, using the MITRE ATT framework. A good first step towards understand the security of this suddenly popular and very complex container orchestration system...

Attack matrix for Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration system and one of the fastest-growing projects in the history of open source, becomes a significant part of many companies’ compute stack. The flexibility and scalability of containers encourage many developers to move their workloads to...

Q&A: Insights from the Red Canary 2020 Threat Detection Report

In light of the latest update to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Red Canary has developed a Threat Detection Report uncovering the top techniques attackers use to target your organization. To understand the significance of the report, we turned to two of VMware Carbon Black’s top threat experts, Greg...

Technical Analysis: Hackers Leveraging COVID-19 Pandemic to Launch Phishing Attacks, Fake Apps/Maps, Trojans, Backdoors, Cryptominers, Botnets & Ransomware

The global COVID-19 pandemic is generating a substantial uptick in the production and delivery of Coronavirus themed malware. Due to a rapidly growing number of Indicators of Compromise IOC’s, this report covers the key behaviors by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. MITRE ATT&CK launched in...

Threat hunting: Part 1—Why your SOC needs a proactive hunting team

Cybersecurity can often feel like a game of whack-a-mole. As our tools get better at stopping one type of attack, our adversaries innovate new tactics. Sophisticated cybercriminals burrow their way into network caverns, avoiding detection for weeks or even months, as they gather information and...

2019: Looking Back at Malware

In 2019, attacker behavior evolved, becoming more evasive. The most common behaviors seen across all attack data—mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework—were: Software Packing for Defense Evasion, Hidden Windows for Defense Evasion, Standard Application Layer Protocol for Command and Control C2,...

RSA 2020 – That’s a Wrap!

Last week VMware Carbon Black attended the RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco! This year was bigger than ever before, as we shared our vision for intrinsic security — for a safer, more effective world. Get all the highlights and check out some of our favorite moments in the wrap up below. The...

2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report

In case you missed it, we are excited to release our latest report from the VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, the “2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report”. In the search for clarity in the modern attacker vs. defender battle, it’s all about behaviors. More broadly, we explore the age-old...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to RSA Conference 2020

This year at the RSA Conference, VMware will be highlighting our vision for Intrinsic Security, a safer, more effective security built into the fabric of the various infrastructure control points that are vulnerable to attack endpoint, identity, network, cloud, workload. The VMware Carbon Black...

CVE-2019-19192

CVE-2019-19192 concerns the STMicroelectronics BLE Stack (STM32WB5x) up to v1.3.1 where the BLE Low Energy implementation mishandles consecutive Attribute Protocol (ATT) requests on reception. This leads to an event deadlock or crash when an attacker in radio range sends crafted ATT packets. The ...

CVE-2019-19192

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on STMicroelectronics BLE Stack through 1.3.1 for STM32WB5x devices does not properly handle consecutive Attribute Protocol ATT requests on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause an event deadlock or crash via crafted packets...