TRACE: Timely Retrieval and Alignment for Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Construction and Expansion

The rapid evolution of cyber threats has highlighted significant gaps in security knowledge integration. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs CKGs relying on structured data inherently exhibit hysteresis, as the timely incorporation of rapidly evolving unstructured data remains limited, potentially...

Ryan Pentney reflects on 10 years of Talos and his many roles from the Sourcefire days

As the adage goes: "You dont know what you dont know." For Ryan Pentney and his team, they know what they dont know. And they wake up every morning trying to figure out how they can answer those questions about emerging threats and some of the largest state-sponsored actors in the world. Pentney ...

Play Ransomware Group’s New Linux Variant Targets ESXi, Shows Ties With Prolific Puma

Trend Micro threat hunters discovered that the Play ransomware group has been deploying a new Linux variant that targets ESXi environments. Read our blog entry to know more...

Data Matters — Empowering Threat Hunters to Reduce API Risk

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Expanded Microsoft Security Experts offerings provide comprehensive protection

Since we first introduced Microsoft Security Experts in May 2022, we’ve worked hard to expand our new security services category. In the past 16 months, we’ve launched new services, expanded our capabilities, and introduced new ways to buy. Our customers face an unprecedented number of security...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...

Threat Intelligence on Log4j CVE: Key Findings and Their Implications

Continuing with our research into CVE-2021-44228, Akamai has previously written about what the vulnerability is and given recommendations on how to go beyond patching for extra protection. Across the Akamai network, we see traffic from 1.3 billion unique devices daily, with record traffic of 182...

PoisonApple - macOS Persistence Tool

Command-line tool to perform various persistence mechanism techniques on macOS. This tool was designed to be used by threat hunters for cyber threat emulation purposes. Install Do it up: $ pip3 install poisonapple --user Note: PoisonApple was written & tested using Python 3.9, it should work usin...

Facebook Tracks APT32 OceanLotus Hackers to IT Company in Vietnam

Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook today formally linked the activities of a Vietnamese threat actor to an IT company in the country after the group was caught abusing its platform to hack into people's accounts and distribute malware. Tracked as APT32 or Bismuth, OceanLotus, and Cobalt Kitt...

Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC fields trillions of security signals every day. How do we identify and respond to the right threats? One thing that won’t surprise you: we leverage artificial intelligence AI, machine learning, and automation to narrow the focus. But technology i...

XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...

Real World Examples Demonstrating the Need for Mature Threat Hunting

A recent article discussed the keys to becoming a level 4 maturity threat hunting program. This article will bring these concepts into the real world by discussing examples of attacks that required that high level of threat hunting maturity to find them and defend against them. The case studies...

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...

What the Marriott Breach Says About Security

We don't yet know the root causes that forced Marriott this week to disclose a four-year-long breach involving the personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. But anytime we see such a colossal intrusion go undetected for so long, the ultimate cause ...

Announcing “Cb Threat Hunters,” Carbon Black’s First Skill-Based Program

Carbon Black is excited to announce “Cb Threat Hunters,” the company’s first skill-based program debuting at Cb Connect 2018. Cb Threat Hunters gives you the opportunity to develop your threat-hunting skills to stay ahead of evolving attacks. With this program, our expert team will arm you with t...

ACE - Automated, Collection, and Enrichment Platform

The Automated Collection and Enrichment ACE platform is a suite of tools for threat hunters to collect data from many endpoints in a network and automatically enrich the data. The data is collected by running scripts on each computer without installing any software on the target. ACE supports...

The Automated Collection and Enrichment Platform: ACE

The Automated Collection and Enrichment ACE platform is a suite of tools for threat hunters to collect data from many endpoints in a network and automatically enrich the data. The data is collected by running scripts on each computer without installing any software on the target. ACE supports...