Partner Perspectives: Accelerated Alert Handling from Syncurity and Carbon Black

JP Bourget is the Founder and CSO of Syncurity. One of the key Security Orchestration, Automation and Response SOAR use cases I see every day is alert handling. As more and more organizations adopt EDR solutions, like those offered by Carbon Black, Syncurity IR-Flow is able to speed up the alert...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Email VBS Downloader Connects to C2 Server, Downloads Trickbot Payload

Carbon Black recently learned a customer had received a malicious email attached with a zip file which contained a malicious VBS script file. This malicious VBS downloader will connect to a Command & Control server and then download a malicious payload which contains Trickbot onto the victim’s...

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...

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...

Partner Perspectives: ThreatConnect and Carbon Black: Incorporating Threat Intel for Quicker Incident Response

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. When it comes to incident response, there’s typically a focus on three main stages: investigation, containment, and remediation. Moving from one stage to the next as efficiently as possible is critical to expediting response...

Cybersecurity Teardown: Using Hash Values

Welcome to the final installment of Hash Values in our greater Cybersecurity Teardown series. In today's post, we'll cover the 'How' of hash values - which includes: Traiging alerts for deeper research Investigating an issue for malicious activity Reassembling our previous examples within a CB...

CVE-2018-19524

CVE-2018-19524 describes an unauthenticated stack overflow in Skyworth GPON HomeGateways/ONTs (DT741, DT721-cb, DT741-cb variants) caused by a long password in the Web_passwd function. The flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (segmentation fault) or potentially achieve remo...

Carbon Black Wins Four 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

We’re excited to announce that the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognized Carbon Black as a winner of the following four categories: Best Cybersecurity Company Gold Winner Endpoint Security for Predictive Security Cloud Gold Winner Endpoint Detection and Response for CB ThreatHunter Silv...

Why Our Customers Love the PSC

As the cybersecurity world advances, organizations are starting to embrace cloud-based security platforms. More and more Carbon Black customers are moving to the CB Predictive Security Cloud PSC, an extensible cloud platform that consolidates security and provides you everything needed to secure...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Ritter Insurance Marketing’s Dan McLellan

Dan McLellan is a Network Support Specialist at Ritter Insurance Marketing, and uses the Carbon Black community to increase his security knowledge and share information with his colleagues. Having access to insights from other security professionals has not only shortened the time he spends tryin...

CB ThreatHunter: Now Available on the CB Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)

Today Carbon Black is announcing the general availability of CB ThreatHunter, our newest offering on the CB Predictive Security Cloud PSC, which delivers powerful threat hunting and incident response IR capabilities on the same platform. The release of CB ThreatHunter marks the fourth service...

Partner Perspectives: Collaborate and Consolidate with King & Union and Carbon Black

Peter Prizio Jr. is the Senior Product Manager for King & Union. One of the biggest challenges facing security organizations today is dealing with the overwhelming number of alerts received each and every day. A staggering 27 percent of IT professionals report receiving more than one million aler...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cb Customer Spotlight with Stonewall Kitchen’s William Bocash

Editor's Note: Stonewall Kitchen upgraded to next-gen AV with Cb Defense and Cb Protection. William Bocash an I.T. Manager for Stonewall Kitchen and author of this blog has more than 17 years experience in the information technology industry, and recently attended Cb Connect 2018. To wrap up the...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Ease of Use

If you’re a security professional at a small business, odds are you’re looking for a solution that isn’t overly complicated and doesn’t require a huge amount of oversight. At Carbon Black, we understand that your security and IT Ops teams are understaffed and your budget is stretched thin...

Cb Customer Spotlight Series: Q&A Landmark Credit Union’s Matt Goodacre

Featuring Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union With all their endpoints in high enforcement mode, Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union in Wisconsin, is confident the organization’s workstations are up to locked down when it comes to security. Here’s how...

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 ...

Partner Perspectives: Orchestrating Endpoint Security with CyberSponse and Carbon Black

Amit Jain is the Principal Technical Product Manager at CyberSponse. Today's network security infrastructures are complex beasts. Increasing mobile and cloud deployments have made managing endpoint security more challenging than ever before. The dynamic and ever-evolving nature of today’s...

Adding Cb ThreatHunter to the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)

This is another big day for Carbon Black. Earlier, we announced Cb ThreatHunter, our newest offering on the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC, which delivers powerful threat hunting and incident response IR capabilities to the platform. The announcement of Cb ThreatHunter, which will be the fourth...

Empowering Developers: How Unfiltered Data and Custom Integrations Became a Foundation for Carbon Black

Today, we’re hosting our first-ever Developer Day from the sold-out CbConnect18 conference in New York. The day features in-depth, technical workshops to accelerate developers’ ability to extend Carbon Black’s open cloud platform to improve the security stack. The way I see it, this day is years ...