Some things never grow old. In the world of security providers, there will always be a lack of professionals, time, and real-deal vendors, while you will always face an abundance of risks, complexity, and cost pressure. However, there are some less obvious challenges that impede the growth and scalability of your MSSP or MDR. Let’s […]
What Is Initial Access? MITRE ATT&CK® Initial Access Tactic | TA0001 Some MITRE ATT&CK tactics require special attention from security experts, and Initial Access is one of them. Because if attackers don’t break in, they won’t be able to take their kill chain to another level. Earlier this year, Microsoft paid $13.7 million in bug […]
On September 15, Uber officially confirmed an attack resulting in an organization-wide cybersecurity breach. According to the security investigation, the organization’s system was severely hacked, with attackers moving laterally to gain access to the company’s critical infrastructure. The cybersecurity incident was brought to the limelight after a young hacker, who claimed to have breached Uber’s […]
August ‘22 Publications In August, 151 Sigma rules submitted by Threat Bounty Program members passed the SOC Prime acceptance validation and were released on the SOC Prime Platform. Totally, 313 rules were declined during the review’s first iteration for different reasons, including content quality, the detection value of the suggested code, full of partial duplication […]
The modern cyber threat landscape illustrates a growing trend in the use of Golang-based malware, which is actively adopted by multiple hacking collectives. Cybersecurity researchers have recently uncovered a novel Golang-based malicious campaign tracked as GO#WEBBFUSCATOR, in which hackers leverage a notorious deep field image taken from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as a lure […]
MITRE ATT&CK® is a framework for threat-informed cybersecurity defense and public knowledge base of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) based on real examples observed in the wild. It also includes a wealth of metadata such as possible detections, mitigations, data sources, platforms, system requirements, associated groups, references, and more. The ATT&CK content is published […]
On August 30 and 31, 2022, CERT-UA revealed a burst of adversary activity massively distributing phishing emails among Ukrainian, Austrian, and German organizations. According to the corresponding CERT-UA#5252 alert, hackers exploit the email attachment vector spreading the notorious AgentTesla info-stealing malware. The malicious activity can be attributed to the behavior patterns of the hacking collective […]
The malicious campaigns of the Iran-backed APT34 hacking collective also tracked as Charming Kitten, have been causing a stir in the cyber threat arena in 2022, including the cyber-attacks exploiting Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities. In late August 2022, cybersecurity researchers revealed the ongoing malicious activity posing a serious threat to Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook […]
July ‘22 Updates During the previous month, we introduced several improvements to content validation and Sigma Rules Bot for Threat Bounty, released a number of blog articles providing an extended context to the threat detection rules published by Threat Bounty Program members, and worked in close cooperation with content authors on improving the already existing […]
Cybersecurity experts from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have disrupted the infrastructure of a nefarious APT responsible for long-lasting cyberespionage activities aimed at targets within NATO countries. The group, dubbed SEABORGIUM, launched multiple phishing, data theft, and hack-and-leak campaigns to spy on defense contractors, NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, and educational institutions, allegedly on-behalf of russian […]