TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 30, 2018

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Connect to the Intelligent Security Graph using a new API

Most organizations deal with high volumes of security data and have dozens of security solutions in their enterprise, making the task of integrating various products and services daunting and complex. The cost, time, and resources necessary to connect systems, enable correlation of alerts, and...

Actionable Threat Intelligence, Tailored to You

We are very excited to be launching the next generation of our Client Reputation product. This update takes Client Reputation a huge step further in providing our customers with truly actionable intelligence tailored for them. It computes an even better assessment of the real risk that every...

Indication of Compromise: Another Key Practice for GDPR Compliance

In this ongoing blog series on preparing for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, we’ve explained the importance of having solid, foundational security practices like asset management and threat prioritization. Today, we’ll discuss how another such practice can help...

APT Trends report Q1 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next installment, focusing on...

With the Carbon Black Integration Network (CbIN), We’re Delivering Stronger Cybersecurity via Open APIs

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black, as we unveil the Carbon Black Integration Network CbIN, a technology partner program designed to improve cybersecurity through collective defense and powered by Carbon Black’s open APIs and the Cb Predictive Security CloudTM PSC. Security teams toda...

My short review of “The Forrester Wave: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018”

Last week, March 14, Forrester presented new report about Vulnerability Risk Management VRM market. You can purchase it on official site for $2495 USD or get a free reprint on Rapid7 site. Thanks, Rapid7! I've read it and what to share my impressions. I was most surprised by the leaders of the...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 12, 2018

This week marked the 11th annual Pwn2Own contest held during the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver and while the contest had fewer entries compared to previous years, it was still an exciting event filled with a little drama. Over the course of two days, the Zero Day Initiative awarded $267,000...

SpiderFoot 2.12 - Automates OSINT to find out everything possible about your target

SpiderFoot is a reconnaissance tool that automatically queries over 100 public data sources OSINT to gather intelligence on IP addresses, domain names, e-mail addresses, names and more. You simply specify the target you want to investigate, pick which modules to enable and then SpiderFoot will...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

Distributed YARA Malware Scanning System: KLara project

Klara project is aimed at helping Threat Intelligence researchers hunt for new malware using Yara . In order to hunt efficiently for malware, one needs a large collection of samples to search over. Researchers usually need to fire a Yara rule over a collection / set of malicious files and then ge...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 5, 2018

Today marks the first day of South by Southwest SXSW here in Austin and if you happen to be in town for the event, Trend Micro will be there! Starting tomorrow, Trend Micro will be exhibiting at the SXSW Job Market in booth 523. The SXSW Job Market is being held on March 10-11, 2018 at the Palmer...

Harpoon - CLI Tool For Open Source And Threat Intelligence

OSINT tool, CLI Tool For Open Source And Threat Intelligence Install You can simply pip install the tool: pip3 install git+http://[email protected]/Te-k/harpoon --process-dependency-links Optionally if you want to use the screenshot plugin, you need phantomjs and npm installed: npm install -...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 12, 2018

Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, and there was so much love in the air. There was also a lot of love in the Trend Micro world as our teams worked diligently to make sure our customers were protected from this month’s bevy of critical vulnerabilities across several vendors. This week, we foc...

Excerpts from Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

February 9, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Opening Ceremony” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 9, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: 10 Questions Today’s CEO...

Excerpts from Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

Why Stand-Alone IDPS Matters More Than Ever, and the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

First, What is IDPS and Why Do We Care? Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS emerged as an improvement on Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. IDS are out-of-band collectors of network traffic that analyze the information and provide alerts. The “eureka” of IPS was that instead of just alerting, why not...

The Botconf Experience

By Yohai Einav, Amir Asiaee, Ali Fakiri-Tabrizi and Alexey Sarychev Originally Posted on January 4, 2018 Earlier this month we took our show on the road, presenting some of our team's work at the Botconf conference in beautiful Montpellier, France. We could talk here for hours about the food, win...