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...

Using MITRE ATT&CK When Researching Attacker Behavior in a Post-Compromise World

MITRE ATT&CK is arguably one of the best assets available to security professionals who want to dive into the intricacies of detecting and preventing adversary behaviors. Why is that? It’s a great knowledge base of known adversarial behaviors overlayed with attacker TTPs and their state in the...

SANS THIR Summit Wrap Up – “We Have 15 Minutes”

Heading back to San Diego before I get on another flight 30 hours later. Lots of people say "what are you crazy? Why do that?"…to which I say: "we cannot achieve any mission without sacrifice." Going to events like the SANS Threat Hunting IR summit remind just how many dedicated people we have on...

Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...

Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses

ARCHIVED STORY Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses By Trellix · June 18, 2018 Every week we read about adversaries attacking their targets as part of online criminal campaigns. Information gathering, strategic advantage, and theft of intellectual property are some of the...

Attackintel - Tool To Query The MITRE ATT&CK API For Tactics, Techniques, Mitigations, & Detection Methods For Specific Threat Groups

A simple python script to query the MITRE ATT&CK API for tactics, techniques, mitigations, & detection methods for specific threat groups. Goals Quickly align updated tactics, techniques, mitigation, and detection information from MITRE ATT&CK API for a specific threat Brush up on my python skill...

Invoke-ATTACKAPI - A PowerShell Script To Interact With The MITRE ATT& CK Framework Via Its Own API

A PowerShell script to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its own API in order to gather information about techniques, tactics, groups, software and references provided by the MITRE ATT&CK Team @MITREattack. Goals Provide an easy way to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its o...

RTA - Framework Designed To Test The Detection Capabilities Against Malicious Tradecraft

RTA provides a framework of scripts designed to allow blue teams to test their detection capabilities against malicious tradecraft, modeled after MITRE ATT&CK. RTA is composed of python scripts that generate evidence of over 50 different ATT&CK tactics, as well as a compiled binary application th...

Metta - An Information Security Preparedness Tool To Do Adversarial Simulation

Metta is an information security preparedness tool. This project uses Redis/Celery, python, and vagrant with virtualbox to do adversarial simulation. This allows you to test mostly your host based instrumentation but may also allow you to test any network based detection and controls depending on...