Everyday tools, extraordinary crimes: the ransomware exfiltration playbook

Data exfiltration activity increasingly leverages legitimate native utilities, commonly deployed third-party tools, and cloud service clients, reducing the effectiveness of static indicators of compromise IOCs and tool-based blocking strategies. The Exfiltration Framework systematically normalize...

Introducing the Enhanced User Interface of the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform

Launching the Enhanced User Interface The Qualys Product Team is excited to announce upcoming enhancements to the Qualys User Interface. These User Experience UX enhancements will make your platform experience faster, smoother, and more immersive. We continuously leverage insights from channels...

Establishing a Baseline for Remote Desktop Protocol

For IT staff and Windows power users, Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a beneficial tool that allows for the interactive.aspx use or administration of a remote Windows system. However, Mandiant consultants have also observed threat actors using RDP, with compromised doma...

Incident Detection and Investigation - How Math Helps But Is Not Enough

I love math. I am even going to own up to having been a "mathlete" and looking forward to the annual UVM Math Contest in high school. I pursued a degree in engineering, so I can now more accurately say that I love applied mathematics, which have a much different goal than pure mathematics. Taking...

AlienVault Releases Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Best Practices

Network security practitioners rely heavily on intrusion detection systems IDS to identify malicious activity on their networks by examining network traffic in real time. IDS are available in Network NIDS and Host HIDS forms, as well as for Wireless WIDS. Host IDS is installed via an agent on the...

[ThreatFactor NSIA v1.0.6] Network System Integrity Analysis

ThreatFactor NSIA is a website scanner that monitors websites in real-time in order to detect defacements, compliance violations, exploits, sensitive information disclosure and other issues. ThreatFactor detects issues remotely and therefore requires no software to install, does not introduce any...