Register for Carbon Black’s 2018 Customer Conference – Cb Connect in NYC – Oct. 10 & 11

Cb Connect, Carbon Black’s premier customer and partner event of the year, heads to New York City this fall for a two-day conference at Center 415, where you’ll join hundreds of security professionals to discuss: Moving your endpoint security to the cloud Best practices for threat hunting and...

Carbon Black: A “Great Place to Work”

I am excited to announce Carbon Black has been certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work Institute. It’s Carbon Black’s first such accolade on a national level and speaks volumes for our nearly 1,000 employees worldwide who come to work every day to create a world safe from...

October 25, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “World Series” 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! October 25, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: How Wi-Fi KRACK...

July 13, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “World Cup” 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! July 13, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Election Hacking: US Citize...

COVID-19 and HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Leaves Healthcare Organizations Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Patient engagement is a term that has been discussed in healthcare for years. But now, its an urgent priority as providers work to vaccinate millions of Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic has put increased pressure on healthcare providers to ramp up digital communications with patients regarding...

How VMware Carbon Black Helps Agencies Meet CDM Requirements

When a crime is committed, one of the first things the police do is collect evidence from any security cameras nearby, and these days, cameras are everywhere. That’s a model that federal agencies want to apply to cybersecurity. This constant monitoring of systems to catch bad actors provides the...

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Cyber Heists

‘Tis the season for cyberattacks, particularly when it comes to the retail industry. According to the VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, retail organizations may see a noticeable spike in attempted cyberattacks during the holiday season. Click here to download the full report TAU’s...

What’s So Dangerous About Spear Phishing?

Spear phishing is one of the most common and most effective cyberattack vectors seen today. Delivered through email, spear phishing campaigns aim either to infect devices with malware, or to steal important information—like credentials and bank numbers. Spear phishing is targeted at specific grou...

What Do High-Level Deep Fakes Mean For Cybersecurity?

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. You’ve heard the term “fake news” bantered about a lot the las...

CB Threat Intelligence Notification: Vidar InfoStealer Trojan Aims to Steal Data Before Erasing Itself

Vidar is an info stealer trojan, which was sold under the name Vidar Pro stealer and can be distributed through different campaigns. This malware will perform multiple types of malicious behavior including stealing web browser cookies and history, digital wallets, two-factor authentication data,...

Carbon Black and Chronicle: Stronger Cybersecurity through Big Data and Analytics

This is another exciting day for cybersecurity professionals, for Carbon Black and for me personally. It’s also a very exciting way to kick of RSA 2019! Earlier today, we announced an exciting new integration with Chronicle Security to harness the power of big data and analytics. Our goal is to...

Carbon Black Global Threat Report: ‘The Year of the Next-Gen Cyberattack’

In 2016, fileless attacks such as PowerWare and the alleged hack against the Democratic National Committee DNC stole sensitive information and global headlines. In 2017, WannaCry, NotPetya and BadRabbit demonstrated ransomware’s global ubiquity. Then, as we kicked off 2018, the Spectre and Meltdo...

Carbon Black Report: Tools of Choice

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report PowerShell and WMI Remain Tools of Choice for Cyberattacks We’ve long known that PowerShell has been abused, but it is still significant that 100% of respondents say they believe the tool most often helps facilitate lateral movements, followed by WMI at...

Cb ThreatSight Investigation Reveals RETADUP Worm Leverages AutoIt to Launch Monero Cryptomining Campaign

While monitoring a customer’s environment, the Carbon Black ThreatSight team discovered a series of unusual alerts. Further investigation of the suspect processes revealed these alerts were related to an attacker leveraging the open-source Monero framework to launch a crypto-mining campaign. Afte...

August 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Solar Eclipse” 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! August 21, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Trump increases status of...

August 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Gerald R. Ford ” 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! August 4, 2017 - Headlines Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? -...

Mirai Rebirth Highlights Importance of Defending IoT

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Enterprises of all sizes face a massive challenge when it come...

Register for #CBConnect19 in San Diego Using Code SOCIAL50 to Receive 50% Off

In two months, hundreds of security professionals will gather in San Diego for two days of discussion around the future of endpoint security at CB Connect 2019. The event will take place at Hotel Del Coronado June 4-5 with sweeping views of Coronado beach where attendees will hear from robust...

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 CIO Will Report to the CISO: The Why

Note: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn Pulse. If you disagree with me, please visit the LinkedIn post to join the comments we've gotten so far. As a community we need the open discussion to advance our collective thinking. If you agree, please like, comment and/or share the post. It’s...

July 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Wright Brothers” 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! July 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Security expert shares tips...

“The 101” – Episode 1 – What is a Non-Malware Attack?

Welcome to our new video series, “The 101!” This weekly security series aims to do one thing: define endpoint security, one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept or comparison in our ongoing effort to cut through the noise and provide clear definitions. Security c...

Women in Security Part 3: Meet Marina Liang, Threat Researcher

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re excited to share the next blog in our six-part Women in Security series where we highlight outstanding women on the VMware Security Business Un...

TAU Threat Discovery: Cryptocurrency Clipper Malware Evolves

Clipper malware is designed to steal cryptocurrency from victims by replacing wallet addresses in the victim’s clipboard with wallet addresses that belong to the attacker. This stealthy technique is designed to silently trick the victim when making what appears to be a legitimate cryptocurrency...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to Containers: VMware Acquires Octarine

UPDATE: On May 27, 2020 VMware officially closed its acquisition of Octarine. The blog post below has been amended to reflect that announcement. Today is a very exciting day for VMware and for our customers as we announce our acquisition of Octarine, whose innovative security platform for...

What Makes Island Hopping a Formidable Threat?

Island hopping is a technique used by cybercriminals to exploit less sophisticated organizations in order to breach their larger affiliates. Attackers use vulnerabilities in the first company’s defenses as a point of entry to the second. This is no small threat. In fact, half of cyber attacks tod...

Untainted By Design: How Our MITRE ATT&CK Results Demonstrate the Resilience of Carbon Black

I started my career in cybersecurity 10 years ago as a Technical Operations Officer in the US Intelligence Community, where I had a first-hand view into the most sophisticated ongoing cyber operations in the world. One thing was always clear: attackers always found ways to stay a step ahead of th...

Essays from 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Platform

Carbon Black recently published a series of essays about the experiences of experts in the field on information security as they moved their endpoint security program to the cloud; this is one of those essays. To read the full series check out 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Securit...

October 11, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “San Francisco” 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! October 11, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware market soars...

August 25, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Air Guitar” 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! August 25, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Microsoft's Bid to Save...

VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis: FTCODE Ransomware

FTCODE is a fully PowerShell-based ransomware. It is distributed via malicious document files that contain macros or using VBScript to download and launch the malicious PowerShell script. FTCODE ransomware will scan a specific list of file extensions and encrypt them with Rijndael algorithm. Othe...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: CrescentCore (macOS)

In June of 2019, researchers at Intego discovered a new Trojan for macOS systems which they named CrescentCore. Much like Shlayer and other common malware targeting macOS systems, CrescentCore is often delivered via a fake Adobe Flash Player installer or updater. This malware employs multiple...

7 Hidden Signs That Your Network is Under Attack

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. When you think of hackers, do you picture some teenage prodigy...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with ALLETE’s Jeff Rotenberger

For five years now, Jeff Rotenberger has served as a cybersecurity analyst for ALLETE, an energy and utilities company providing for the Upper Midwest. Rotenberger and his team have been working with Carbon Black CB APIs and CB Response to greatly reduce time spent on security remediation. Read o...

RSA Wrap Up: It’s All About The People

RSA 2019 just finished and -- as always -- what a week it was. This year was a personal milestone for me, with the week culminating in my presentation with Gary Hayslip, CISO at WebRoot, titled: “Why the Role of the CISO Sucks and What We Should Do about It.” But, before we get to Friday morning ...

The 4 Core Pillars of Endpoint Security

Cb Connect is always an exciting time for me. At Cb Connect 2017, we unveiled our vision for the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC. Over the past year, this platform has expanded and grown to provide better prevention, detection and response for our global customers. Today, at CbConnect18, we...

Partner Perspectives: Defense in Depth with Carbon Black and ProtectWise

Ramon Peypoch is the Chief Product Officer for ProtectWise. Navigating the number of enterprise security point products used to defend against today’s threat landscape can be overwhelming. Some sources say the average enterprise uses 75 security products to secure its network. Reducing the number...

Carbon Black & VMware Announce General Availability of Integrated Solution to Secure the SDDC

Securing your software-defined data center SDDC is fundamentally different than securing your end-user computers. Securing the endpoint is no longer enough - attackers have other angles they can take to wreak havoc on your system - but not securing your endpoints would be a big mistake. That’s wh...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Challenges and Approaches

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, help...

August 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “PGA Championship” 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! August 10, 2017 - Headlines One easy thing your agency can do to attract more...

Building a New Language for Data Processing

Building a New Language for Data Translation In previous posts, we’ve talked about the plan for and implementation of EQR Event Query Router—a system we created to solve the problem of querying large quantities of disparate data by end-user analysts in real-time. As with any major project, we fac...

How To Build a Better Bug Bounty Program

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Every software company in the world, regardless of whether the...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Threat Hunting Teams & CIR

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

What Is FIPS 140-2 & Why Does It Matter?

Editor's Note: Ray Potter, the blog's author, is the CEO and Co-founder of SafeLogic. Carbon Black has just announced the successful FIPS 140-2 validation of their Carbon Black Cryptographic Module and availability within their Cb Response and Cb Protection products. Our team at SafeLogic is...

Value of Integrations Highlighted At Fortinet’s Accelerate 18 Conference

Changing the hearts and minds of security teams is no easy task. Everyone has been told for so long how to protect their environment, and more importantly how to buy the various tools needed to enable that protection. Collectively we’ve adopted the unintentional job of assuming all these things...

VIDEO: Unfiltered Endpoint Data – A Platform For Consolidated Endpoint Management

A PLATFORM FOR CONSOLIDATED ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT In our last post of this series, we talked about the key to better endpoint threat detection. It’s all about the data you collect. Across the board, endpoint security solutions use pre-defined signatures or rules to detect threats — only conducting...

October 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Tom Petty” 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! October 3, 2017 - Headlines Equifax Says Cyber Attack May Have Hit 2.5 Million...

August 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Mount Vesuvius” 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! August 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Attacking Critical...

DirectDefense Incorrectly Asserts Architectural Flaw in Cb Response

Today, a blog was released that incorrectly asserts an architectural flaw in Cb Response that leaks customer data. In fact, this is an optional feature turned off by default to allow customers to share information with external sources for additional ability to detect threats. Cloud-based,...

Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments

In a recent Black Hat webcast, “Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments,” sponsored by VMware Carbon Black, guest speakers Sheila A. Berta, Offensive Security Specialist, Dreamlab Technologies and Haim Helman, CTO, VMware Carbon Black App Security, VMware Security Business...