#behavioraldetection — Public Fediverse posts

The mice are getting smarter. But so are the cats.

Malware’s evolving—sandbox-aware, VM-aware, and playing dead like it's auditioning for a nature documentary. But @FortiGuardLabs is bringing the claws with real-time behavioral detection that doesn’t rely on hopes and dreams.

This isn’t your grandma’s AV anymore.

Key takeaways:

• Modern malware avoids detection by acting normal until you blink
• Static detection is getting smoked by polymorphic code and evasive loaders
• FortiEDR & FortiDeceptor are leveraging runtime behavior, memory inspection, and deception to outsmart stealthy threats
• Cats > mice, especially when they know your playbook

🔗 Full breakdown:
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/catching-smarter-mice-with-even-smarter-cats

TL;DR for blue teamers:

• Stop chasing IOCs and start profiling behavior.
• Watch process spawning patterns and parent/child anomalies.
• Deception tech isn’t just a gimmick—it’s how you catch the stuff that thinks it’s invisible.
• If your EDR doesn’t trigger on a payload sleeping for 5 minutes, you’re already five minutes too late.

“It’s clean, I ran it through the sandbox.”
— The last words of a junior analyst before the domain controller started speaking Russian

#ThreatIntel #MalwareEvasion #BehavioralDetection #EDR #CyberSecurity #BlueTeam #DeceptionTech #SandboxEvasion #ReverseEngineering

More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys – Source: www.schneier.com https://ciso2ciso.com/more-ais-are-taking-polls-and-surveys-source-www-schneier-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #behavioraldetection #SchneierOnSecurity #SchneieronSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #Uncategorized #AI

More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys

I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing.
Solutions are ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/more-ais-are-taking-polls-and-surveys.html

#behavioraldetection #Uncategorized #AI

More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/more-ais-are-taking-polls-and-surveys.html #behavioraldetection #Uncategorized #AI

Detecting Phishing Emails https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/detecting-phishing-emails.html #behavioraldetection #academicpapers #Uncategorized #phishing #e-mail #scams