Infographic: Cyberattacks by the Numbers

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Easy Operation at Enterprise Scale

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is the last excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Fastest Investigation & Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

Web Application Vulnerability Scanner: Wapiti

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. It performs “black-box” scans, i.e. it does not study the source code of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti act...

Wapiti 3.0.0 - The Web-Application Vulnerability Scanner

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your websites or web applications. It performs "black-box" scans it does not study the source code of the web application by crawling the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets the list of...

December 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Threat Research” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware dominates th...

Carbon Black 2017 Threat Report: Non-Malware Attacks and Ransomware Continue to Own the Spotlight

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...

Black Hat Europe puts cybersecurity on the C-Suite Agenda

Black Hat is renowned for being one of the biggest, most technical security conferences in the world operating in the USA, Europe and Asia. 2017 marks Europes first Black Hat Executive summit, a format well received for senior executives to be able to openly discuss cyber security concerns and...

ctshirts.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-453620 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ctshirts.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique Works On All Windows Versions

A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools. Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique takes advantage of a built-in Windows function an...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 20, 2017

It’s that time of year again, when many will gather with their families, eat way too much, and catch those crazy Black Friday sales. I’ve been seeing “Black Friday” sales for almost two weeks now. Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, is probably going to be...

What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

Holiday Season Cyberattacks May Increase By More Than 20% Starting This Week

As we approach the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, organizations should be paying close attention to potential cyberattacks coming their way, if history offers any indication of what’s to come. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations saw a +20.5% increase in attempted...

Australia’s “Essential Eight” is Critical to Meet 2018 Cybersecurity Mandates & Privacy Laws

Christopher Strand, Carbon Black’s security risk and compliance officer recently wrote a blog discussing how the new mandatory data breach notification rule in the Privacy Amendment Notifiable Data Breaches Bill 2016, helps bring attention to cybersecurity solutions and focus on the practices...

ContextIS Introduces CbRCLI to Access Cb Response via the Command Line for Faster, More Efficient Incident Response

When you think of incident response, there are two key factors. The incident itself, and the need to respond quickly and effectively. You need to have an incident response toolkit that contains everything you need to be able to perform investigations and forensic analysis with speed, accuracy and...

Kaspersky Lab – Beyond Black Friday Threat Report, November 2017

Introduction The festive holiday shopping season, which covers Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday in late November as well as Christmas in December, now accounts for a significant share of annual sales for retailers, particularly in the U.S., Europe and APAC. Those selling clothing,...

Harassment scandals, Sheldon Cooper, Black Mirror and blockchain

Lots of good jokes in a popular TV show The Big Bang Theory are related to Sheldon Cooper's bureaucracy in interpersonal relationships: all these "roommate agreement", "relationship agreement", etc. However, because of these endless harassment scandals in media, now it seems like a best practice ...

“The 101” – Episode 14 – What Makes Up a Cyberattack? (Part 2)

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This regular security series aims to define endpoint security one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept, or comparison in our ongoing effort to provide clear definitions. Last episode we started answering a pivotal...

Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: A Deeper Look at BadRabbit Shows Overlapping Similarities to NotPetya

BadRabbit was a ransomware variant initially detected in the wild on October 24, 2017. On that day, Carbon Black and several other research organizations conducted triage analysis of the sample and provided write ups. Carbon Black also provided an internal post in the User Exchange documenting IO...