Building the security operations center of tomorrow—better insights with compound detection

In the physical world, humans are fantastic at connecting low quality signals into high quality analysis. Consider speaking with someone in a crowded place. You may not hear every word they say, but because you are fluent in the language and can piece together context from the words, you can hear...

The Anatomy of Threat Hunting: What You Need to Know and Why

No big surprise here: cybercrime will keep causing a major slowdown in the years to come as the business world proceed with digitalization. Despite implementing all traditional measures to stay protected, organizations keep falling prey to impersonation, phishing, and malware. Scary enough? What’...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Hunting APT28 Downloaders

Recently the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed the APT28 downloaders SedUploader and Zebrocy which has been observed over the previous six months. There have been several good publications regarding the code analysis of SedUploader and Zebrocy already 125679. Therefore, in this artic...

Announcing the Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon winners

Bringing together information from multiple disconnected security systems to solve today’s security challenges is complex. We recently asked Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon participants to come up with innovative solutions using the Microsoft Graph Security API, and they did not disappoint. We...

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...

Partner Perspectives: ThreatConnect and Carbon Black: Incorporating Threat Intel for Quicker Incident Response

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. When it comes to incident response, there’s typically a focus on three main stages: investigation, containment, and remediation. Moving from one stage to the next as efficiently as possible is critical to expediting response...

The Five Most Startling Statistics from this 2019 Global Survey of 1,200 Cybersecurity Pros [Infographic]

For those of us in the security industry, the annual Cyberthreat Defense Report is a gold mine of insights into the minds of IT security professionals, including what threats keep them up at night, and how they plan to defend against them. The 6th edition of the report from the CyberEdge Group wa...

Introducing Guardicore Cyber Threat Intelligence

Introducing Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI, a freely available resource to assist in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains...

Guardicore Threat Intelligence Helps Cybersecurity Community Research Attacks and Mitigate Risks

This post discusses how Guardicore Labs helps Guardicore customers and the security community enhance their security posture...

Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac and new Threat and Vulnerability Management capabilities

On February 28, 2019, we announced Microsoft Threat Experts, a new managed hunting service within the Microsoft 365 Security portfolio that enables customers to extend their expertise and insights with the help of Microsoft security professionals. This release showcased our philosophy that securi...

Partner Perspectives: Stay Proactive with Automated Threat Blocking from Carbon Black and IntSights

Alon Yotvat is a Senior Solutions Architect for IntSights. Carbon Black and IntSights have joined forces to combine next-gen endpoint security solutions with powerful external threat intelligence. This potent integration of cybersecurity technologies gives enterprises the protection they need to...

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...

IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Threat Roundup for Mar. 1 to Mar. 8

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 1 8. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicato...

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Dark web hacker selling admin access to a Chinese railway company

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Sixgill's threat intelligence team have identified an "experienced threat actor" on the dark web selling access to the admin panel of a Chinese rail control system. This access would enable criminals to manipulate train control systems, affecting over one...

Threat Roundup for Feb. 22 to March 1

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 22 and March 01. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristic...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: DarkHydrus/RogueRobin

Recently, Palo Alto Unit 42 released an updated report regarding new DarkHydrus delivery documents, which includes the installation of an updated variant of the RogueRobin trojan. This document includes details on both DarkHydrus and RogueRobin, along with detection rules and search queries that...

Partner Perspectives: Faster Response with Carbon Black and Tines.io

Tines was founded by former DocuSign and eBay security engineers who were frustrated by existing security automation platforms. “I was leading an enterprise security team that had to work harder and harder every day just to keep up with the volume of alerts that required investigation,” said Eoin...

Why the Pipeline Cybersecurity Initiative is a critical step

It’s well known by now that pipeline attacks and attacks on utilities of all kinds have been an unfortunately well-trodden path by cyber-adversaries in numerous countries for a few years now. These types of attacks are not theoretical, and the damage done to date—as well as the potential damage—i...