Solution Providers Can Now Add Incident Response to Their Services Portfolio For Free

The Incident Response IR services market is in accelerated growth due to the rise in cyberattacks that result in breaches. More and more organizations, across all sizes and verticals, choose to outsource IR to 3rd party service providers over handling security incidents in-house. Cynet is now...

What we like about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. It’s no secret that the security industry generally likes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. After a few months of using and integrating it with our platform here at Expel, we feel the...

Making Sense of the Security Sensor Landscape

We have a serious sensor problem in the cybersecurity world. And it’s bad. Particularly when it comes to network intrusion detection and prevention sensors IDS/IPS. It seems like many security operations center SOC teams have completely given up on them being effective. But is the problem with...

Wsb-Detect - Tool To Detect If You Are Running In Windows Sandbox ("WSB")

wsb-detect enables you to detect if you are running in Windows Sandbox "WSB". The sandbox is used by Windows Defender for dynamic analysis, and commonly manually by security analysts and alike. At the tail end of 2019, Microsoft introduced a new feature named Windows Sandbox WSB for short. The...

New Framework Released to Protect Machine Learning Systems From Adversarial Attacks

Microsoft, in collaboration with MITRE, IBM, NVIDIA, and Bosch, has released a new open framework that aims to help security analysts detect, respond to, and remediate adversarial attacks against machine learning ML systems. Called the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, the initiative is an attempt to...

New Framework Released to Protect Machine Learning Systems From Adversarial Attacks

Microsoft, in collaboration with MITRE, IBM, NVIDIA, and Bosch, has released a new open framework that aims to help security analysts detect, respond to, and remediate adversarial attacks against machine learning ML systems. Called the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, the initiative is an attempt to...

Cyberattacks against machine learning systems are more common than you think

Machine learning ML is making incredible transformations in critical areas such as finance, healthcare, and defense, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives. Many businesses, eager to capitalize on advancements in ML, have not scrutinized the security of their ML systems. Today, along with...

Cyberattacks against machine learning systems are more common than you think

Machine learning ML is making incredible transformations in critical areas such as finance, healthcare, and defense, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives. Many businesses, eager to capitalize on advancements in ML, have not scrutinized the security of their ML systems. Today, along with...

Geo-Recon - An OSINT CLI Tool Desgined To Fast Track IP Reputation And Geo-locaton Look Up For Security Analysts

An OSINT CLI tool desgined to fast track IP Reputation and Geo-locaton look up for Security Analysts. Setup This tool is compactible with: Any Linux Operating System Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS Termux Linux Setup git clone https://github.com/radioactivetobi/geo-recon.git cd geo-recon chmod +x...

Akamai, CISA, and CIS Join Forces to Improve SLTT Cyber Defenses

Cybercriminals continue to target U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT government organizations. In 2019, there were more than 100 ransomware attacks -- including an attack on Baltimore's IT systems that locked out thousands of computers and disrupted nearly every city service. This...

Obscured by Clouds: Insights into Office 365 Attacks and How Mandiant Managed Defense Investigates

With Business Email Compromises BECs showing no signs of slowing down, it is becoming increasingly important for security analysts to understand Office 365 O365 breaches and how to properly investigate them. This blog post is for those who have yet to dip their toes into the waters of an O365 BEC...

Carbon Black EDR’s All-New Live Query Capability and Enhanced Fileless Visibility

VMware Carbon Black is excited to announce that VMware Carbon Black EDR formerly CB Response, recently named by Gartner as a 2020 Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Detection and Response solutions, now features enhanced insight into fileless activity via Microsoft’s AMSI and a brand new Live Query...

Trojans, Backdoors and Droppers: The Most-Analyzed Malware

Trojans, backdoors and droppers, oh my: These are the top three malware types being analyzed by threat intelligence teams, according to statistics out on Thursday. According to anonymized statistics from requests to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal, almost three quarters 72 percent of the...

Hunting APTs with YARA

For the past few years, we have been spreading our knowledge and experience of using YARA, often called a pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers and everyone else. Most of the time, this took the form of the Kaspersky training course titled, "Hunting APTs with YARA Like a GReAT...

Cyber Criminals using Coronavirus Fears to Spread Information-Stealing Malware

Cyber criminals have been leveraging trending cultural and viral news items that drive interest from millions of individuals as mechanisms to target and distribute malware easily and effectively. In the past, cyber criminals have used topics including international sports championships, celebrity...

Rocket Loader skimmer impersonates CloudFlare library in clever scheme

Update: The digital certificate issued for https.ps has been revoked by GlobalSign. Fraudsters are known for using social engineering tricks to dupe their victims, often times by impersonating authority figures to instill trust. In a recent blog post, we noted how criminals behind Magecart skimme...

BadBlood - Fills A Microsoft Active Directory Domain With A Structure And Thousands Of Objects

BadBlood by Secframe fills a Microsoft Active Directory Domain with a structure and thousands of objects. The output of the tool is a domain similar to a domain in the real world. After BadBlood is ran on a domain, security analysts and engineers can practice using tools to gain an understanding...

Mimir - Smart OSINT Collection Of Common IOC Types

Smart OSINT collection of common IOC types. Overview This application is designed to assist security analysts and researchers with the collection and assessment of common IOC types. Accepted IOCs currently include IP addresses, domain names, URLs, and file hashes. The title of this project is nam...

7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC

It takes a special sort of person to be a security analyst. The person must be detail-oriented, curious, intelligent and hard-working, and with a quick reaction time as constant attacks unfold. These analysts have deep expertise that they use during their long shifts to sort through what’s worth...

Experts on demand: Your direct line to Microsoft security insight, guidance, and expertise

Microsoft Threat Experts is the managed threat hunting service within Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ATP that includes two capabilities: targeted attack notifications and experts on demand. Today, we are extremely excited to share that experts on demand is now generally available a...