On January 13, 2022, a devastating cyber-attack hit Ukraine, taking down online assets of the country’s government, in which attackers took advantage of a new data-wiping malware known as WhisperGate. Hard on the heels of this impactful incident, on February 23, cybersecurity analysts revealed another destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations dubbed HermeticWiper. This newly discovered […]
Our Threat Bounty community keeps growing and attracting more and more distinguished specialists in detection content development. This time, we want to introduce to you Furkan Celik – a senior security analyst in banking and one of our active contributors. Furkan has been with us since December 2019. He wrote precise detections that help to […]
January ‘22 Results In January 2022, Threat Bounty content authors successfully submitted 178 unique detections to the SOC Prime Platform. 179 rules failed the verification by SOC Prime Team and couldn’t have been improved to match our content quality requirements. Also, a significant number of rules went through several iterations of SOC Prime Team review […]
On February 16, 2022, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) disclosed the latest intelligence information about Russia-linked cyber-attacks on the US Cleared Defense Contractors (CDCs) that have been in operation for at least two years now. The targeted CDCs had access to a variety of sensitive data sources, including weapons development, surveillance data, communication lines, […]
On February 15, 2022, Proofpoint researchers warned about the TA2541 hacker group. A criminal cluster dubbed TA2541 has been active since 2017 (yet, managing to stay rather low-key) and is reported to consistently spread remote access trojans (RATs), enabling adversaries to obtain sensitive data from the breached networks and devices, or even get control of […]
Catch the latest newscast about SOC Prime’s community! Today we want to introduce Nattatorn Chuensangarun, a prolific detection content author contributing to our Threat Bounty Program since August 2021. Nattatorn is an active content developer, concentrating his efforts on Sigma rules. You can refer to Nattatorn’s detections of the highest quality and value in the […]
November ‘21 Results In November 2021, Threat Bounty Program developers contributed 243 new detections to the SOC Prime Platform. Moreover, 89 rules previously published by Threat Bounty authors to the Threat Detection Marketplace repository were improved and updated. As SOC Prime aims as delivering only the content of the highest standards, the total of 245 […]
Relying on Public Sources of Information Think about it — every time we open a blog post with the latest malware analysis, combing through it looking for the IoCs our threat teams so desperately need, – doesn’t it feel a bit lethargic? Fingers crossed, our favorite security vendor has already done the same, and the […]
A moment of luck for threat actors and yet another major headache for cyber defenders! On November 22, 2021, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri released a fully-functional proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the new Windows Installer zero-day vulnerability. The flaw (CVE-2021-41379) allows adversaries to obtain SYSTEM privileges on any device running Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows […]
SOC Prime Threat Bounty Program provides enthusiastic cyber security defenders with the opportunity to share detections with the global community, and get publicly recognized and rewarded for their contributions. Threat Bounty participants are motivated to share detections that can address security needs of 20K+ users. Thus, content authors gain each time their detection is consumed […]