List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks

PenTestIT RSS Feed This post has been lying in my drafts for more than a year with edits all over. But two days ago, it was announced that Powershell Empire would no longer be supported by it's authors. Hence just like I curated a list of adversary emulation tools, I finalized this list of open...

Enterprise incident response: getting ahead of the wave

Enterprise defenders have a tough job. In contrast to small businesses, large enterprise can have thousands of endpoints, legacy hardware from mergers and acquisitions, and legacy apps that are business critical and prevent timely patching. Add to that a deluge of indicators and metadata from the...

How Carbon Black is Prioritizing Living Off the Land Attacks Part 2

What are Living Off the Land LoL Attacks? In recent years, Living off the Land Binaries and Scripts LoLBas have become increasingly popular tools for cybercriminals. These types of attacks leverage native, signed, and often pre-installed applications in malicious ways that their creators never...

UPDATE: Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7

PenTestIT RSS Feed It has been some time that I posted about the Cuckoo Sandbox. Good news is that the guys at the Cuckoo Foundation are not silent and have released the Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7, with lots of improvements, code cleanup, support for VirtualBox 6 and the well deserved support for the...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.15.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Three days ago, an updated version – Sysdig Falco v0.15.0 – was released. It has been some time since I last blogged about this open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. This release incorporates a lot of rule updates that are now also tagged the for...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: JCry Ransomware Pretends to be Adobe Flash Player Update Installer

JCry is a new family of ransomware that has the unique characteristic of being written in the Go programming language and being delivered as multiple executables, each with their own purpose. It was pretending to be an Adobe flash player update installer on a compromised website to lure users to...

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework at CB Connect

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework – Join me at CB Connect San Diego! There are a number of techniques you can use to uncover security gaps leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. At CB Connect San Diego, our annual user conference June 4-5th, I will speaking on “How to Evolve Yo...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed I read a tweet about two days ago and today, MITRE CALDERA 2.0 is out already! If you remember, I wrote briefly about this automated adversary emulation system in my post titled - List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a major update and the current version supports Windows...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: GandCrab 5.2 Ransomware Attempts to Delete Volume Shadow Copies

GandCrab 5.2 ransomware will append seven randomly generated strings as the file extension to each encrypted file and drop a ransom note named as ‘generated file extension-MANUAL.txt’, for example, “office.doc.uahmthl” and “UAHMTHL-MANUAL.txt”. It will also change the desktop background of the...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: CryptoMix Clop Ransomware Disables Startup Repair, Removes & Edits Shadow Volume Copies

Summary A wew variant of CryptoMix Clop ransomware has been distributed as a binary that is digitally signed and verified which makes it look like a legitimate executable. In addition, CryptoMix Clop ransomware will append ‘.clop’ or ‘.ciop’ as a file extension to the encrypted file and drop a...

CB Threat Intelligence Notification: Vidar InfoStealer Trojan Aims to Steal Data Before Erasing Itself

Vidar is an info stealer trojan, which was sold under the name Vidar Pro stealer and can be distributed through different campaigns. This malware will perform multiple types of malicious behavior including stealing web browser cookies and history, digital wallets, two-factor authentication data,...

Register for #CBConnect19 in San Diego Using Code SOCIAL50 to Receive 50% Off

In two months, hundreds of security professionals will gather in San Diego for two days of discussion around the future of endpoint security at CB Connect 2019. The event will take place at Hotel Del Coronado June 4-5 with sweeping views of Coronado beach where attendees will hear from robust...

Mature Your Threat Hunting by Testing Your Visibility

Threat hunting starts with a hypothesis. Without a hypothesis, you’re just combing through log files - and that isn’t threat hunting. Once you have a hypothesis, you can begin your search, but you won’t always find a hacker. Testing, like the open source tests available from Red Canary’s Atomic R...

How to Mature Your Threat Hunting Program with the ATT&CK™ Framework

John Wunder, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE spoke in a recent webinar about how the ATT&CK framework is a knowledgebase of adversary behaviors, describing the things that are tough for the adversary to change – those at the top of David J. Bianco’s influential Pyramid of Pain. Wunder...

Carbon Black Cybersecurity Experts to Present in 4 Sessions at RSA 2019

We hope you’ll join Carbon Black at one of the company’s four presentations at RSA 2019. And don’t forget the company will also host a book launch and advanced signing of “Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy,” with Carbon Black’s National Security Strategist and...

Untainted By Design: How Our MITRE ATT&CK Results Demonstrate the Resilience of Carbon Black

I started my career in cybersecurity 10 years ago as a Technical Operations Officer in the US Intelligence Community, where I had a first-hand view into the most sophisticated ongoing cyber operations in the world. One thing was always clear: attackers always found ways to stay a step ahead of th...

NRCC Email Hack Highlights Lack of Visibility & Proactive Threat Hunting at Political Organizations

Earlier this week, Politico reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee NRCC suffered a major attack prior to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, with thousands of sensitive emails from four senior aides exposed to an outside intruder. While the impact of this breach is still...

Why I’m Ecstatic About the MITRE ATT&CK Results

Yesterday, MITRE published the results of its first public evaluation of endpoint detection & response EDR vendors based on its increasingly-popular ATT&CK framework. The ATT&CK evaluations are a new approach to EDR testing - open, sophisticated, rigorous, and reflective of the real world. We...

ATT&CK +osquery = Love

I had the ability to live-stream MITRE's ATT&CKcon, a two-day event where organizations came together as a community to share their best practices with leveraging the ATT&CK framework. At this conference, Scott Lundgren, Chief Architect at Carbon Black ,presented “ATT&CK + osquery = Love,” where ...

How The ATT&CK™ Framework Can Mature Your Threat Hunting Program

The truth about threat hunting is that it’s a process that matures with your security team. The more you learn more about the threat landscape, the more you can operationalize that knowledge. Because of this, it is important to work within a framework that can help you track the growth of your...