Demystifying XDR: How Curated Detections Filter Out the Noise

Extended detection and response XDR is, by nature, a forward-looking technology. By adding automation to human insight, XDR rethinks and redefines the work that has been traditionally ascribed to security information and event management SIEM and other well-defined, widely used tools within...

Creaky Old WannaCry, GandCrab Top the Ransomware Scene

What’s old in ransomware is new again. Or, more accurately, never really went away. New analysis shows that for a years-old malware, WannaCry is still a viciously active pest. The self-propagating ransomware cryptoworm that’s been parasitizing victims since 2017 was the top most detected ransomwa...

Cynet Log4Shell Webinar: A Thorough - And Clear - Explanation

Most security practitioners are now aware of the Log4Shell vulnerability discovered toward the end of 2021. No one knows how long the vulnerability existed before it was discovered. The past couple of months have had security teams scrambling to patch the Log4Shell vulnerability found in Apache...

Microsoft Windows .Reg File - Dialog Spoof / Mitigation Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Microsoft Windows .Reg File - Dialog Spoof / Mitigation Bypass Exploit Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFTWINDOWSREGFILEDIALOGSPOOFMITIGATIONBYPASS.txt twitter.com/hyp3rlinx ISR: ApparitionSe...

Attackers Exploit Flaw in Google Docs’ Comments Feature

Attackers are using the “Comments” feature of Google Docs to send malicious links in a phishing campaign targeted primarily at Outlook users, researchers have discovered. Researchers from email collaboration and security firm Avanan, a CheckPoint company, first observed “a new, massive wave of...

Demystifying XDR: A Forrester Analyst Lays the Foundation

Extended detection and response XDR is no longer a future state in cybersecurity practice — it's a full-fledged reality for some. In fact, it's been a thing for a lot longer than you might think. Still, XDR is new vocabulary for many security operations center SOC teams, and the contours of this...

InsightIDR Was XDR Before XDR Was Even a Thing: An Origin Story

An origin story explains who you are and why. Spiderman has one. So do you. Rapid7 began building InsightIDR in 2013. It was the year Yahoo’s epic data breach exposed the names, dates of birth, passwords, and security questions and answers of 3 billion users. Back then, security professionals...

APT trends report Q2 2021

For more than four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Top Countries With ICS Endpoint Malware Detections

The Trend Micro research paper, "2020 Report on Threats Affecting ICS Endpoints,” presents findings on ICS endpoints and the threats that plague them. From these findings, we rounded up the list of the top ten countries with the most malware and grayware detections...

The Adaptive Security Engine -- A Quantum Leap Forward for Application and API Protection

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to...

Protecting SAP applications with the new Azure Sentinel SAP threat monitoring solution

As one of the leading solution providers for applications that manage business processes, SAP is the custodian for massive amounts of sensitive data in many of the biggest organizations in the world. Since these applications are business-critical, an SAP security breach can be catastrophic. Yet,...

Protecting SAP applications with the new Azure Sentinel SAP threat monitoring solution

As one of the leading solution providers for applications that manage business processes, SAP is the custodian for massive amounts of sensitive data in many of the biggest organizations in the world. Since these applications are business-critical, an SAP security breach can be catastrophic. Yet,...

Codecov Releases New Detections for Supply Chain Compromise

CISA is aware of a compromise of the Codecov software supply chain in which a malicious threat actor made unauthorized alterations of Codecov’s Bash Uploader script, beginning on January 31, 2021. Upon discovering the compromise on April 1, 2021, Codecov immediately remediated the affected script...

COVID-Related Threats, PowerShell Attacks Lead Malware Surge

Surging numbers of COVID-themed attacks, PowerShell trojans, along with the SolarWinds compromise and the continued spread of Sunburst malware were major contributors to a massive spike in the number of observed attacks in the wild during the last half of 2020, which McAfee’s said averaged 588...

Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams

The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published download here, CISOs with small security teams talk about the...

The mystery of the Silver Sparrow Mac malware

Cyber security company Red Canary published findings last week about a new piece of Mac malware called Silver Sparrow. This malware is notable in being one of the first to include native code for Apples new M1 chips, but what is unknown about this malware is actually more interesting than what is...

Social-Analyzer - API And Web App For Analyzing And Finding A Person Profile Across +300 Social Media Websites (Detections Are Updated Regularly)

An API for analyzing & finding a person profile across +300 social media websites. It includes different string analysis and detection modules, you can choose which combination of modules to use during the investigation. The detection modules utilize a rating mechanism based on different detectio...

Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools

Overview A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of...

Kraken - Cross-platform Yara Scanner Written In Go

Kraken is a simple cross-platform Yara scanner that can be built for Windows, Mac, FreeBSD and Linux. It is primarily intended for incident response, research and ad-hoc detections not for endpoint protection. Following are the core features: Scan running executables and memory of running process...

Introducing Enhanced Endpoint Telemetry (EET) in InsightIDR

Rapid7 detection and response customers have access to, and insights from, our experts and research driving the industry forward. This includes a robust library of out-of-the box detections curated from our global managed SOC team, plus insights from Rapid7’s global threat intelligence network...