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...

Learn How XDR Can Take Breach Protection Beyond Endpoint Security

How do you know whether an attacker has infiltrated your network? Can you really rely on an Endpoint Detection and Response EDR solution to be your go-to technology for identifying security breaches? Endpoint detection and response EDR platform has been an important technology to detect...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: New macOS Malware Variant of Shlayer (OSX) Discovered

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU recently discovered a new variant of a family of macOS malware which was first discovered in February of 2018 by researchers from Intego. TAU has obtained new samples of this malware and observed downloads of the malware from multiple sites, primarily...

Modern Cybercrime: It Takes a Village

LAS VEGAS – Contrary to the pop-culture image of the hoodie-clad lone hacker with mad keyboard “skillz” siphoning off funds and making people’s lives miserable with a few lines of brilliant code, increasingly cybercrime “takes a village”. The true face of cybercrime today is a more democratic one...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Ritter Insurance Marketing’s Dan McLellan

Dan McLellan is a Network Support Specialist at Ritter Insurance Marketing, and uses the Carbon Black community to increase his security knowledge and share information with his colleagues. Having access to insights from other security professionals has not only shortened the time he spends tryin...

Partner Perspectives: The Speed of Prevention – eSentire + Carbon Black

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on eSentire.com. Let’s start with a brief history lesson. In September 2016, eSentire and Carbon Black™ announced a strategic partnership in conjunction with launching esENDPOINT built on CB Response to augment our market-leading Managed Detection and...

MISP - Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing

The objective of MISP is to foster the sharing of structured information within the security community and abroad. MISP provides functionalities to support the exchange of information but also the consumption of the information by Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS, LIDS but also log analysi...

theHarvester v3.0.3 - E-mails, Subdomains And Names Harvester (OSINT)

theHarvester is a tool for gathering subdomain names, e-mail addresses, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources search engines, pgp key servers. Is a really simple tool, but very effective for the early stages of a penetration test or just to know the...

Osweep - Don't Just Search OSINT, Sweep It

If you work in IT security, then you most likely use OSINT to help you understand what it is that your SIEM alerted you on and what everyone else in the world understands about it. More than likely you are using more than one OSINT service because most of the time OSINT will only provide you with...

30 Years of Trend Micro

This year marks 30 years of Trend Micro. That’s three decades of working to make the world safe for exchanging digital information in a constantly changing technology and cyber threat environment. Our founders often reference the humble beginnings of the company – starting from a garage in...

Insights from the MITRE ATT&CK-based evaluation of Windows Defender ATP

In MITREs evaluation of endpoint detection and response solutions, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection demonstrated industry-leading optics and detection capabilities. The breadth of telemetry, the strength of threat intelligence, and the advanced, automatic detection through machine...

Why I’m Ecstatic About the MITRE ATT&CK Results

Yesterday, MITRE published the results of its first public evaluation of endpoint detection & response EDR vendors based on its increasingly-popular ATT&CK framework. The ATT&CK evaluations are a new approach to EDR testing - open, sophisticated, rigorous, and reflective of the real world. We...

Partner Perspectives: Collaborate and Consolidate with King & Union and Carbon Black

Peter Prizio Jr. is the Senior Product Manager for King & Union. One of the biggest challenges facing security organizations today is dealing with the overwhelming number of alerts received each and every day. A staggering 27 percent of IT professionals report receiving more than one million aler...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Phishing Incident Response with Cofense Intelligence and Cb Response

Mike Saurbaugh is the Director of Technical Alliances for Cofense. Hunting Phished Endpoints with Cofense Intelligence™ and Carbon Black Ransomware, business email compromise BEC, malware infections and credential-based theft all primarily stem from a single vector of compromise - phishing...

Threat Intelligence, the Dark Web and Information sharing: Supporting improved protection

There are numerous different elements and obstacles that contribute to the challenges of data protection in the current threat environment. However, a leading issue is ensuring protection against the latest, emerging attack styles and breach strategies. After all, how can an organization ensure t...