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Chinese Government-affiliated Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting U.S. Government Agencies
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued an advisory about Chinese Ministry of State Security MSS-affiliated cyber threat actors targeting U.S. government agencies. Through the National Cybersecurity Protection System, CISA has...
PurpleSharp - C# Adversary Simulation Tool That Executes Adversary Techniques With The Purpose Of Generating Attack Telemetry In Monitored Windows Environments
Defending enterprise networks against attackers continues to present a difficult challenge for blue teams. Prevention has fallen short; improving detection & response capabilities has proven to be a step in the right direction. However, without the telemetry produced by adversary behavior, buildi...
UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.9.0
Infection Monkey 1.9.0, the open source breach and attack simulation tool was released a few hours ago - just in time for BlackHat/DefCon 2020. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Updates include an expanded list of MITRE ATT&CK...
Prometei botnet and its quest for Monero
By Vanja Svajcer. NEWS SUMMARYWe are used to ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making the headlines, but there are still methods adversaries use to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways.Cisco Talos recently discovered a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack we're calling "Prometei"...
Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Solving cross-domain security incidents through the power of correlation analytics
In theory, a cyberattack can be disrupted at every phase of the attack chain. In reality, however, defense stack boundaries should overlap in order to be effective. When a threat comes via email, for example, even with good security solutions in place, organizations must assume that the threat ma...
Fact vs. Fiction: 10 Endpoint Security Myths Debunked
Simply defined, endpoint security protects desktops, laptops, servers, and fixed-function devices from malicious internal and external threats. Endpoint security combines various threat detection, response and prevention technologies to help organizations disrupt cyberattacks. Despite the clear-c...
Broad, Ongoing Cyberattacks Targeting Australia Underscore Need for Behavioral-Based Cybersecurity
On Friday the Australian Federal Government detailed sustained ‘copy-paste’ threats on government and business throughout the country. According to the Government: “‘Copy-paste compromises’ is derived from … heavy use of proof-of-concept exploit code, web shells and other tools copied almost...
Attacker-Group-Predictor - Tool To Predict Attacker Groups From The Techniques And Software Used
The tool predicts attacker groups from techniques and softwares used. It searches based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework How it works? 1- Collect data from https://attack.mitre.org/ about attacker groups 2- Get data from user about attack 3- Compare data and create result Installation git clone...
The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware
The linchpin of successful cyberattacks, exemplified by nation state-level attacks and human-operated ransomware, is their ability to find the path of least resistance and progressively move across a compromised network. Determining the full scope and impact of these attacks is one the most...
UPDATE: Empire 3.2.3
Empire 3.2.3 was released a couple of days ago! If you remember, I briefly mentioned about this tool in my five month old post titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This version adds MITRE ATT&CK technique tagging among other new features. What is Empire? Empire 3.0 is an...
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...
