CISO/CIO: Get an iPad and Apple Watch with an App Monitoring your Security 24/7

If you are a CISO or CIO, you need to know what is going on with your organizational security. Together with that, you cannot afford to be inundated with alerts, messages and other data whenever something happens. On the one hand, you need to be in the know, because cyberattacks can occur at any...

Partner Perspectives: Level Up your EDR Capabilities with Deception-Based Threat Detection from Carbon Black and Smokescreen

Amir Moin is a Product Manager for Smokescreen. All security teams eventually run into the same fundamental problems - low network visibility, overworked security analysts, and breaches that put them on the nine o’clock news. Traditional security solutions are primed toward giving security teams ...

Partner Perspectives: Notes from the Field: Extending Carbon Black Visibility to Undetected Malware

Daniel LaVoie is a Senior Solutions Specialist at ReversingLabs. On a recent customer visit, I asked the company’s Director of Security Operations how ReversingLabs came to be deployed as a part of their SOC tool set. The answer was quite interesting, and one that I wanted to share with our blog...

Can Your Managed Detection and Response Service Do This?

Submitted by Steve Duncan Trend Micro has recently introduced its Managed Detection and Response Service to North America. This spring at the RSA show in San Francisco I had that chance to catch up with Jon Oltsik of ESG again to discuss our new offering and why we think the time is right. As...

Generic Signature Format for SIEM Systems: Sigma

Sigma is a generic and open signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events in a straight forward manner. The rule format is very flexible, easy to write and applicable to any type of log file. The main purpose of this project is to provide a structured form in which researchers ...

Carbon Black and Siemplify Announce Integration Partnership

Carbon Black and Siemplify are excited to announce a partnership to deliver a fully integrated solution for incident response. By combining forces, Siemplify and Carbon Black will provide clients around the world with stronger prevention, detection and response strategies and capabilities. The...

Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform: The Hive

Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform TheHive is a scalable 3-in-1 open source and free solution designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs and any information security practitioner dealing with security incidents that need to be investigated and acted upon swiftly. TheHi...

Amazon Same Day Credential Shipping

FireEye has identified a campaign involving phishing websites that appear as legitimate Amazon sites. Amazon is the largest online retailer and threat actors frequently target its customers. In this attack, a person browsing the internet would be directed to authentic looking – yet fake – Amazon...

Amazon Same Day Credential Shipping

FireEye has identified a campaign involving phishing websites that appear as legitimate Amazon sites. Amazon is the largest online retailer and threat actors frequently target its customers. In this attack, a person browsing the internet would be directed to authentic looking – yet fake – Amazon...

Malware-Laced Porn Apps Behind Wave of Android Lockscreen Attacks

Incidents of Android lockscreen malware masquerading as porn apps are a growing concern to security analysts who are forecasting an uptick in attacks. Once infected, Android users bitten by this malware appear to be locked out of their device and are forced to undergo a complex extraction of the...

Hackers' Op-Sec Failures Important Clues to Uncover APT Gangs

CANCUN – Sophistication, resourcefulness and ingenuity are characteristics usually associated with state-sponsored espionage hacker groups. But they’re certainly not infallible. Like most detective work, security analysts generally are able to toss back the covers on APT campaigns and major...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Contract Delivery Notice Email Messages on May 21, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34319 First Published: 2014 May 21 14:49 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to French-language spam email messages that claim to contain a contract notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Transfer Slip Email Messages on May 15, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34250 First Published: 2014 May 16 13:41 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank transfer slip for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Malicious Attachment Notification Email Messages on March 1, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33144 First Published: 2014 March 3 15:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Quotation Email Messages on November 21, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31866 First Published: 2013 November 22 13:52 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product quotation request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Tax Payment Failure Notification Email Messages on November 11, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31722 First Published: 2013 November 12 14:35 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a tax payment failure notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Invoice Notification Email Messages on October 24, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31493 First Published: 2013 October 25 14:19 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an electronic invoice notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attemp...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Banking Information Form Email Messages on October 23, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31441 First Published: 2013 October 23 16:39 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claims to contain bank information for the recipient. The email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachme...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Portuguese Personal Picture Notification Email Messages on October 5, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31128 First Published: 2013 October 7 14:08 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain personal images for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...