How we protect our users against the Sunburst backdoor

What happened SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, has recently become a victim of a cyberattack. Their product Orion Platform, a solution for monitoring and managing their customers IT infrastructure, was compromised by threat actors. This resulted in the deployment of a custom...

Solorigate Resource Center – updated February 5, 2021

Alongside our industry partners and the security community, Microsoft continues to investigate the extent of the recent nation-state attack on SolarWinds. Our goal is to provide the latest threat intelligence, Indicators of Compromise IOCs, and guidance across our products and solutions to help t...

Advice for incident responders on recovery from systemic identity compromises

As Microsoft alongside our industry partners and the security community continues to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack, our goal is to provide the latest threat intelligence including IOCs and guidance across our products and solutions to help the community fight back against, harde...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q4 2020 in Review

Throughout the year, we’ve provided roundups of what’s new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool see the H1 recap post, and our most recent Q3 2020 recap post. As we near the end of 2020, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR from Q4 2020...

Defending the Intelligent Edge from Evolving Attacks

Cybercriminals keep their fingers on the pulse of potential new attack vectors at all times, looking for their next opportunity. They are currently moving significant resources to target and exploit emerging network-edge environments, such as the cloud and remote workers, rather than just targeti...

Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan

Symantec is reporting on an APT group linked to China, named Cicada. They have been attacking organizations in Japan and elsewhere. Cicada has historically been known to target Japan-linked organizations, and has also targeted MSPs in the past. The group is using living-off-the-land tools as well...

Symantec Endpoint Detection

Symantec Endpoint Detection And Response uses AI, IR automation and threat intelligence to detect, find, isolate and eliminate intrusions across all endpoints. symantec Endpoint Detection...

VMware Carbon Black Announces Splunk Integration to Streamline and Modernize SOC Workflows

Introducing Unified VMware Carbon Black Cloud App for Splunk At VMware Carbon Black, our ecosystem of integration and alliance partners has been a core part of our vision and strategy. Today, with thousands of customers adopting the VMware Carbon Black Cloud to secure their endpoints and workload...

Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Detection And Response 授权问题漏洞

Symantec Endpoint Detection And Response uses AI, IR automation and threat intelligence to detect, find, isolate and eliminate intrusions across all endpoints. symantec Endpoint Detection...

Digging into the Dark Web: How Security Researchers Learn to Think Like the Bad Guys

The Dark Web/Darknet continues to be an environment for bad actors to share stolen credentials and discuss successful attacks. In fact, in recent weeks, personal information from places ranging from education organizations to voter databases in the U.S. have been found exposed. Although there hav...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the QSC USA 2020 virtual conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set...

Countering a Home Invasion: Modernizing Threat Hunting Best Practices

The recently released VMware Carbon Black Global Incident Threat Report found that incidents of counter incident response IR are occurring in 82 percent of IR engagements. Counter IR involves several tactics, which include: disabling anti-malware scan interface, clearing/deleting logs, using...

Threat Roundup for October 23 to October 30

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 23 and Oct. 30. 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...

Unilever CISO on balancing business risks with cybersecurity

Imagine showing up to work every day knowing that your job requires protecting 160,000 employees creating more than 450 products around the world—tea, ice cream, personal care, laundry and dish soaps—across a customer base of more than two and a half billion people every day. Unilever Chief...

Unilever CISO on balancing business risks with cybersecurity

Imagine showing up to work every day knowing that your job requires protecting 160,000 employees creating more than 450 products around the world—tea, ice cream, personal care, laundry and dish soaps—across a customer base of more than two and a half billion people every day. Unilever Chief...

Welcome to ThreatPursuit VM: A Threat Intelligence and Hunting Virtual Machine

Skilled adversaries can deceive detection and often employ new measures in their tradecraft. Keeping a stringent focus on the lifecycle and evolution of adversaries allows analysts to devise new detection mechanisms and response processes. Access to the appropriate tooling and resources is critic...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...

Manuka - A Modular OSINT Honeypot For Blue Teamers

Manuka is an Open-source intelligence OSINT honeypot that monitors reconnaissance attempts by threat actors and generates actionable intelligence for Blue Teamers. It creates a simulated environment consisting of staged OSINT sources, such as social media profiles and leaked credentials, and trac...

Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the...

CISO Spotlight: How diversity of data (and people) defeats today’s cyber threats

This year, we have seen five significant security paradigm shifts in our industry. This includes the acknowledgment that the greater the diversity of our data sets, the better the AI and machine learning outcomes. This diversity gives us an advantage over our cyber adversaries and improves our...