#threatinformeddefense — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #threatinformeddefense, aggregated by home.social.
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Procedures Make It Possible – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/procedures-make-it-possible-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #threatinformeddefense #CyberSecurityNews #EnterpriseEdition #SecurityBoulevard #ThreatLedDefense #ThreatDefense #threatintel
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Accelerating Threat-Led Defense with Tidal Cyber + ThreatConnect – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/accelerating-threat-led-defense-with-tidal-cyber-threatconnect-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #threatinformeddefense #CyberSecurityNews #EnterpriseEdition #SecurityBoulevard #ThreatLedDefense #ThreatDefense
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Looking into 2025: Reflections & Observations from the Tidal Cyber Founders – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/looking-into-2025-reflections-observations-from-the-tidal-cyber-founders-source-securityboulevard-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityBloggersNetwork #threatinformeddefense #CyberSecurityNews #EnterpriseEdition #SecurityBoulevard #ThreatDefense
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Featuring MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense, a long-term community partner!
Many thanks to Jonathan Baker and CTID for continuing their support to #AdversaryVillage at @defcon 32 as well.
More info: https://ctid.iohttps://adversaryvillage.org/adversary-events/DEFCON-32/ and https://defcon.org/html/defcon-32/dc-32-villages.html#adversary
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#AdversaryGuru live-stream series from Adversary Village
Mia Sanchez, Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at MITRE, will be talking about "[Cyber Threat Intel] CTI Blueprints: Creating Actionable Reports", an open-source project from the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense designed to help analysts create high-quality actionable reports.
Schedule: 15th December at 11:00 AM CST.
More details about the live-stream: https://adversaryvillage.org/live-streaming-series/Mia-Sanchez
Sessions will be live-streamed on our Twitch, YouTube channels and QnA will happen on the Discord server.Twitch: https://twitch.tv/AdversaryVillage
YouTube: https://youtube.com/AdversaryVillage
Join Discord server for QnA: https://adversaryvillage.org/discord#adversarysimulation #purpleteaming #adversarytradecraft #adversaryemulation #threatinformedDefense #CTI #threatintel
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This morning, we're thrilled to publish the @tidalcyber Ultimate Guide to Cyber Threat Profiling. At 57 pages of workflows, tips, resources, and infographics, I’m out of many more words to add here – check it out and let us know what you think!
#threatprofile #threatinformeddefense #mitreattack #DiamondModel #TTP #APT #ransomware #risk #cyber
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A key part of #threatinformeddefense is focusing on threats relevant to you, but how do you know what threats those are? Developing a cyber threat profile is crucial, but many organizations find the process overwhelming.
We're excited to release our latest ebook, The Ultimate Guide to Cyber Threat Profiling! In this comprehensive guide, our Director of CTI lays out the strategic benefits of threat profiling, how to build your first threat profile, and more.
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Introducing the newest major @tidalcyber TTP intelligence content roundup, the Initial Access & Malware Delivery Landscape matrix, now live in our free Community Edition platform: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/43836024-a194-4ac7-9659-b51e88632e7f
The matrix covers 25 major & emerging #malware typically used to gain early footholds in victim environments, often leading to ingress of more impactful threats, especially #ransomware, #infostealers, cryptominers, & more. It includes many recognizable names (#QakBot, #IcedID, #Emotet, #Bumblebee, #Gootloader) plus several newer and less-discussed threats
The matrix includes 13 custom Technique Sets for threats not currently tracked in the #mitreattack knowledge base. All technique references derive from a large volume of recent, public #threat reporting (click the labels in the ribbon at the top of the matrix to view relevant source URLs for each threat)
An interactive link analysis visualization of connections among these threats, also derived from public reports, is also available here: https://onodo.org/visualizations/235067/
Community Edition matrices support easy identification of shared (and outlier) techniques among multiple threats, and quick & easy overlay or pivoting to defensive & offensive security capabilities relevant to your own #security stack. We’ll have a blog out soon reviewing our analysis of top & trending techniques common among these initial access threats
Tidal’s #Adversary Intelligence team remains focused on providing up-to-date #TTPintelligence, especially around traditionally under-represented yet widely relevant threats like crimeware. Other popular matrices in this theme include our Ransomware & Data Extortion Landscape matrix (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/9a0fd4e6-1daf-4f98-a91d-b73003eb2d6a) and Major & Emerging Infostealers matrix (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/ec62f5e0-bd40-476b-a560-7ad2779ea9e3), which each cover 20+ threats
Financially motivated adversaries often display a rapid pace of #TTP evolution, and this is especially apparent for #initialaccess threats. Register for our webinar on May 31 dedicated to TTP evolution, its drivers, and discussion around what defenders can do to address it and its implications: https://hubs.la/Q01NC23k0
#SharedWithTidal #threatinformeddefense #malware #infostealer #cryptominer #IAB #blueteam #detectionengineering #purpleteam #cyber
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We're excited to welcome @loginsoft to the Tidal Product Registry! You can now explore their System-41 analytics to detect potential cyber threats in the Tidal Community Edition, and add them to your matrix to check coverage against specific threat actors or groups. Be sure to check them out!
#tidalproductregistry #threatinformeddefense #threatintel #cybersecurity
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There's still time to register for our #webinar tomorrow exploring initial access threats and #malware delivery! You won't want to miss this presentation by our Director of CTI will present research on remote access trojans (RATs), loaders, and other initial access threats, and provide recommendations for prioritization. Join us at noon ET tomorrow!
#threatinformeddefense #cybersecurity #initialaccessthreats #threatintel
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The Enterprise Edition of the Tidal Platform was created to help CISOs and large organizations reap the benefits of adversary behavior data and #threatinformeddefense. In this blog, our CEO discusses how the Enterprise Edition builds on MITRE ATT&CK® and the benefits it brings to security leaders. Check it out!
#ciso #threatintel #cybersecurity
https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/announcing-tidal-cyber-enterprise-edition
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We are excited to announce today that our Enterprise Edition is generally available! The Enterprise Edition fully operationalizes threat-informed defense for large organizations and security teams. It brings a robust feature set including advanced threat profiling, coverage maps, and the Tidal Confidence Score™.
"The Enterprise Edition of the Tidal Cyber platform has helped my team save countless hours as we work to defend Winton," said Edward Millington, Head of Information Security at Winton. "The way that Tidal has operationalized adversary technique data is unique and makes it possible for us to truly adopt threat-informed defense."
Read more in the press release!
#threatinformeddefense #threatintel #cybersecurity #pressrelease #infosec
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Although initial access threats like loaders and remote access trojans are responsible for many infections and notoriously frequently change their TTPs, there hasn't been a full survey of the entire initial access threat landscape. Join us on Thursday, April 13 at noon ET where we'll discuss the full initial access threat threatscape and highlight overlaps to help defenders prioritize their efforts.
#cybersecurity #threatintel #threatintelligence #threatinformeddefense
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Ready or not, April's here and it's time to look back at March's top TTPs! In March, the Tidal Adversary Intelligence Team added 721 technique references to the Tidal knowledge base. Check out our latest Making Waves blog post to learn more about the trending TTPs last month.
#threatintel #ttp #cyberthreat #threatinformeddefense
https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/making-waves-ttp-intelligence-highlights-in-march
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Today's the day! You won't want to miss our review of the top #TTPs across the first quarter of 2023. We'll also be talking defensive takeaways and what we can learn from the first quarter as we head into the rest of the year. Join us at noon ET!
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Starting soon! Join us to discuss the communication gap between #cyber security vendors and their customers. We'll be talking about how it got like this, and giving clear steps for how to fix it. Can't make it at 11 AM ET? Register anyway for the recording!
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Don’t approach your threat profile irrationally – use our #PiDay #TTPs Matrix to slice through the infinite universe of threats and bring more (mathematically) constant focus on the ones that matter most: https://hubs.la/Q01GPxgV0
Whether you’re a freshly-baked analyst/operator or a crusty infosec veteran, the piping hot and fresh content in Tidal’s free Community Edition is sure to ins-pie-re the next step in your threat-informed defense journey!
Our latest matrix features seven timely threats:PyPI Malicious Packages: A recent report from Sonatype highlighted software supply chain compromises, where four Python packages hosted on the PyPI software registry contained malicious code that could drop malware, delete system utilities, & tamper with files containing authorization keys
AppleSeed: According to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, “AppleSeed is a backdoor that has been used by Kimsuky to target South Korean government, academic, and commercial targets since at least 2021.”Raspberry Robin: A highly active worm that spreads through removable media and abuses built-in Windows utilities after initial infection. Raspberry Robin has evolved into a major malware delivery threat, with links to infections involving Cobalt Strike, SocGholish, Truebot, and ultimately ransomware
Chocolatey Backdoor: Last March, Proofpoint identified an attack on French organizations in multiple sectors that used Chocolatey, an open-source package installer, to fetch malicious scripts that delivered the Serpent backdoor (this represents one of the first documented uses of Chocolatey in a cyber campaign)
(Key) LimeRAT: Trellix researchers documented a July 2022 spearphishing campaign targeting government agencies across South Asia, Europe, and North America that ultimately delivered AsyncRAT & LimeRAT. As a special bonus, this set of Pi Day techniques fittingly features T1056.001 (Input Capture: Keylogging)!
Banana Sulfate: This small set derives from Sekoia.io’s investigation into a large and sophisticated but unattributed infrastructure cluster last February
Golden Chickens: Security researchers assess this is a malware-as-a-service provider whose customers include FIN6, Cobalt Group, and the Evilnum APT group.#SharedWithTidal #threatinformeddefense #threatintel #threatintelligence
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The latest Technique Set added to Tidal’s free Community Edition summarizes the TTPs observed in recent #SocGholish campaigns according to public threat reporting https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/4b901fc2-d021-4eff-bd53-0c9fa0259ecf
SocGholish is a highly active, JavaScript-based loader #malware used to deliver a wide variety of impactful threats (summarized in the original visual attached here). Many #ransomware families, the #CobaltStrike post-exploit framework, other remote access trojans (#RAT) and loaders, and tools for #ActiveDirectory enumeration, #detection evasion, and #credential theft have been linked to recent SocGholish campaigns
SocGholish appears on multiple security and #CTI vendors' top priority threat lists. Active since 2017, SentinelLabs researchers observed a 330%+ increase in SocGholish malware-staging servers between the first and second halves of 2022, and Sucuri researchers detected more than 25,000 websites newly compromised by the malware's operators through July 2022 alone. Initial infections predominantly come via file downloads from sites hosting fake web browser updates, although operators use some non-traditional email delivery techniques to drive compromised content towards potential victims. Like many of today's top #initialaccess threats, SocGholish victimology involves a wide range of industries
Consider layering the new set with other recent Community Edition content from @tidalcyber's Adversary Intelligence team, including our recent #Gootloader set (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/796cacb6-3bb1-474b-9747-abcce2c47de2) or the set of techniques most recently associated with the ever-evolving #QakBot #trojan (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/aef0f0c6-5212-4abf-9a24-3c81f518c59f), into one view to compare & contrast initial access techniques (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/adb9581e-3318-4bc7-8d23-145891bf1ca4). Then take it a step further by layering mappings from your own defensive stack with the list of capabilities available in the Product Registry (https://app.tidalcyber.com/vendors). And stay tuned for our soon-to-be published overview matrix on the broad initial access/malware delivery ecosystem in today’s threat landscape, featuring more threats like the ones seen here
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One of the biggest issues in cybersecurity today is the gap in knowledge between security vendors and consumers of exactly how cybersecurity products defend against specific adversary techniques. Is this impossible to overcome? Not at all! Join us on March 23 for an informative fireside chat presentation where we'll discuss how we can bridge this gap.
#cybersecurity #cyberrisk #threatintel #threatinformeddefense
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Struggling to differentiate & prioritize among the large set of opportunistic and “indiscriminate” threats in the landscape? Our new blog aims to help
Threat profiling generally focuses on identifying & prioritizing (rank-ordering) threats motivated to harm your organization. These include threats with clear targeting intent relative to your org or your industry, often a smaller set that is more straightforward to surface. Then comes the large pool of threats that seem to impact most sectors, maybe in some cases your vertical specifically or others trending in threat intel generally, regardless of explicitly links to your industry yet
With the high volume of recent activity from threats like #ransomware, #infostealers, & loader/initial access malware like #QakBot, #Gootloader, and many others, I’m seeing more awareness that these often broad-based threats should be on many security teams’ radars. But how do you keep from being overwhelmed by what often feels like an endlessly growing list of new threats?
@tidalcyber's latest blog (https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/ransomware-threat-profiling-prioritizing-indiscriminate-threats) offers several strategies for helping make more sense out of this subset of threats, using major ransomware-as-a-service operations as a representative case study. Our guidance involves (where possible) leaning on metrics to rank-order groups linked to your industry, using technical sources to identify potential spikes in activity and quantifiably justify increased priority levels, and focusing defenses on discrete TTPs that might be common across the wide pool of these threats (summarized for major #RaaS in the attached table, with data sourced from the Ransomware & Data Extortion mega-matrix available in Tidal’s free Community Edition here: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/9a0fd4e6-1daf-4f98-a91d-b73003eb2d6a)
These tips are often just a starting point – for more upcoming threat profiling guidance, subscribe to the Tidal blog here https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog and follow us on all major social platforms, and we look forward to hearing what other techniques you use to drive focus in the ever-evolving threat landscape
#threatinformeddefense #threatprofile #risk #intelligence #CTI
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#Gootloader is a highly active banking Trojan-turned-loader #malware that has recently appeared on multiple vendors’ priority threat lists, attacking organizations in a wide range of verticals & countries. If your leadership or other stakeholders asked for a list of this threat's most common TTPs, would you be able to provide it quickly?
Now you can, with the Gootloader #TTP matrix available in Tidal’s free Community Edition: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/796cacb6-3bb1-474b-9747-abcce2c47de2
Gootloader, also referred to by its related payload, #Gootkit, first emerged in 2014 but has been especially active since 2020. Despite this, technical reporting around its TTPs has been relatively light until even more recently. In the past two years alone, verticals including finance, #healthcare, defense, pharmaceutical, energy, & automotive have faced Gootloader campaigns, with victims across North America, Western Europe, & South Korea, and the malware is regularly used to deliver high-impact payloads, including Cobalt Strike, #IcedID (a common #ransomware precursor), & more. Industry-based #threat profiling can be a powerful tool, but even if your industry (or your corner of it) hasn’t yet directly observed Gootloader activity, we believe broad-based threats like this should be on most teams’ radars
Our matrix summarizes Gootloader TTPs detailed across several great recent technical reports. Reports from SentinelLabs, Cybereason, & The DFIR Report were helpfully pre-mapped to #mitreattack, and we mapped a couple other detailed analyses. Procedural details are even available for nearly all the included technique mappings – be sure to click the Technique Set’s label in the ribbon at the top of the screen to pivot into the Details page with this information & relevant source links throughout
Red Canary & The DFIR Report helpfully provided tool-agnostic suggested #detection logic for key behaviors observed during recent Gootloader campaigns here https://redcanary.com/blog/gootloader/ and here https://thedfirreport.com/2022/05/09/seo-poisoning-a-gootloader-story/. Take a wider view by layering entire segments of your defensive stack over the #CTI back in the Community Edition, by toggling on any of the mappings available in @tidalcyber's Product Registry https://app.tidalcyber.com/vendors
#SharedWithTidal #threatinformeddefense #CobaltStrike #initialaccess #blueteam
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Wondering how to best identify the cyber threats most relevant to your organization? It's not too late to register for our cyber threat profiling webinar! Join us LIVE today at 1 PM ET to learn how to get started building a threat profile and how to use your profile to defend your organization. Can't make it at 1? Register anyway for the recording and slide deck.
#threatintel #cybersecurity #threatinformeddefense #cyberthreatintelligence #webinar
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Identifying the threats relevant to your organization is a critical piece of implementing threat-informed defense, but it can also be difficult! Join us on February 15 as Tidal's Director of CTI walks through how to build a threat profile for your organization so you can more effectively and efficiently defend against threats.
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As we've said in previous posts and in our 2023 threat landscape webinar, #infostealers are one of the top threats we're tracking this year. These pieces of malware are often thought of as more of a personal concern due to their association with pirated video games, but they're increasingly targeting enterprises for a bigger and more valuable information haul.
Today we're excited to release our Director of CTI's latest blog, in which he details specific ways you can defend against many of the techniques used by infostealer operators, and shows you how the Tidal Community Edition can help you with these defenses.
Check it out!
#threatintel #ttp #cybersecurity #threatintelligence #threatinformeddefense
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With #Hive ransomware infrastructure taken down last week and speculation of similar action against #LockBit, which groups will likely take the “top” #RaaS spots in the first part of the year? If you don’t track #ransomware-as-a-service closely, you may not realize how many other groups regularly carry out attacks (or at least claim & extort victims publicly)
Since the takedown on Thursday, five RaaS groups have claimed nearly 30 victims publicly, with LockBit 3.0, #Clop, and #ViceSociety leading the pack. In our ransomware landscape briefing last week, a participant asked which group concerned us most into the new year. My answer is “most” seen in the slide here (but if I had to narrow, I choose LockBit in the short-term, and Vice Society in the medium/longer term)
Last week I argued that many, if not most, of the “top” groups (measured quickly by last year’s victim count) should be on most security teams’ radars. While there are some notable trends in victim sectors, like a relative increase in attacks on public services organizations, in general most of the leading groups are associated with a broad range of victim verticals (a similar trend holds for victim size too – a relative rise in mid-sized organizations, but still a notable number of large enterprises like in years past)
Rather than burn resources trying to track each new victim associated with each group every day, there is value in identifying top common tactics, techniques, & procedures among groups with generally similar motivations & victim patterns, and focusing response drills, defensive reinforcements, log source & detection tuning, and, where resources allow, unit testing or adversary simulation or emulation around that subset of TTPs
Our living matrix of top ransom & extortion group #TTPs is found here, covering nearly 30 groups and 175 techniques, although the cluster of top common ones is much smaller. Click the labels in the ribbon at the top to see source references for every mapping and procedural details for many: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/9a0fd4e6-1daf-4f98-a91d-b73003eb2d6a
You can also catch the recording of last week’s session and slides with this and similar metrics & graphics on-demand here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19703/570527
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We're excited to welcome @ibmsecurity to the Tidal Product Registry today! You can now explore their mappings in the Tidal Community Edition.
Our Chief Innovation Officer, Frank Duff, sat down with Jason Keirstead, CTO of Threat Management at IBM Security, as part of our We've Got This Covered: An ATT&CK Coverage Introspection fireside chat series. Check out the video for some great lessons learned over the years of using MITRE ATT&CK® and why IBM Security is excited to be part of the Product Registry!
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Prioritizing TTPs for ransomware linked to Royal Mail attack
After media reports linking #LockBit ransomware to the attack on the UK’s largest mail delivery service, which halted some delivery operations (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/royal-mail-cyberattack-linked-to-lockbit-ransomware-operation/), we revisited our technique set for this #threat and added 20 technique references (including six net-new techniques linked to this malware in our knowledge base). View the data here: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/bcc36246-50b7-41c0-9e43-57cb07db59ad
LockBit 3.0 emerged in July as the latest variant in this highly active family of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). LockBit was likely the single most active #ransomware cluster of 2022, accounting for the most publicly extorted victims last year by far (a very rough approximation for overall activity – more on the nuances of public victim data below)
Considering threats to your industry & immediate peers is a great entry point to building a cyber “threat profile”. Many of the top #RaaS, including LockBit, stand out for the breadth of sectors they’ve victimized – often, if you look hard enough, you can likely find at least one victim in a given vertical associated with a particular RaaS family. It’s therefore usually pertinent to evaluate many of these threats in your profiling efforts and consider taking some steps to reinforce defenses around them
Likely in part due to extra scrutiny, LockBit 3.0 has more linked techniques (57) than any other threat in our Ransomware & Data Extortion Landscape mega-matrix (https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/9a0fd4e6-1daf-4f98-a91d-b73003eb2d6a). Orders of magnitude less than the # of associated indicators (see here for just one indication of volume https://valhalla.nextron-systems.com/info/rule/MAL_RANSOM_Lockbit_Jul22_1) but still a fair amount worth prioritizing. A good entry point for this involves gauging the widest gaps between highest-density techniques (those seen most often in your data) and those you’ve determined you are most- or least-defended against. The attached table shows Sigma, Atomic Red Team, & Data Component coverage for select LockBit 3.0 techniques – these and many commercial capabilities can all be easily surfaced, pivoted to, or overlaid in Tidal’s free Community Edition
And while technique counts are usually much smaller than IOC volume, remember adversaries can & and do (increasingly) evolve their TTPs, underscoring the importance of intelligence tracking over time where team resources & bandwidth allow: https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/identifying-and-defending-against-qakbots-evolving-ttps
#SharedWithTidal #threatinformeddefense #RoyalMail
Finally, several recent thoughtful articles/discussions commenting on important nuances to consider when looking to victim extortion/data leak sites to gauge ransomware prevalence: https://www.ohadzaidenberg.com/post/victimology-analysis-and-data-leaks-site
https://www.curatedintel.org/2022/11/the-difficulties-and-dubiousness-of.html
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#Rhadamanthys #stealer seems to be having a moment right now. Quick rundown on what we know about infection trends & its post-exploit TTPs
Discovered last summer, it's one of several popular & emerging #infostealer #malware with new/improved evasion and/or theft capabilities observed in recent months. Like many popular families, Rhadamanthys initial infections occur via multiple vectors, including #phishing & #spam email attachments and - increasingly - legitimate web search ads: https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2023/01/03/index.html, https://blog.cyble.com/2023/01/12/rhadamanthys-new-stealer-spreading-through-google-ads/
In our broad analysis of the infostealer threat landscape, we identified #mitreattack TTPs associated with 16 families across dozens of public reports. We've already added more reported techniques to Rhadamanthys' set since the report dropped this week https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/big-game-stealing-part-1-the-infostealer-landscape-rising-infostealer-threats-to-businesses-w
Still somewhat limited public reporting on this threat to date, although we've identified 22 (sub-)techniques associated with Rhadamanthys so far. Visualize them and pivot to associated defensive & offensive testing capabilities here: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/techniqueset/48405ee2-b243-4bda-a6c2-75eb80869056
In addition to the reports above, two other resources here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/security/information-stealer-malware-on-dark-web, https://threatmon.io/rhadamanthys-stealer-analysis-threatmon/. Thanks to the teams that published great reporting & analysis around Rhadamanthys so far, including ThreatMon Accenture @malware_traffic & Cyble
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Proud to share our second analysis piece, which just went live! BLUF: All the pieces are in place for a serious, near-term uptick in infostealer threats involving higher-value targets, including businesses of all sizes, paralleling the shift among top ransomware groups toward “big-game” targets in years past. Part 1 details our evidence that intent, opportunity, & capability (the components of a “threat”) are all rising, and Part 2 will share our process for using this threat intelligence to drive development of new detections around the TTPs most commonly shared across today’s top stealers.
Despite a little more attention over the past year or so, I’ve sensed for some time that infostealers remain an “underrated” concern relative to the level of threat they pose to organizations, and there has yet to be a broad threat assessment or analysis of common techniques at quite this scale. Entirely based on (a large body of) public reporting, I think we’re able to draw unique insights in this series, and @tidalcyber's Community Edition made it a lot easier to get there.
Despite (what we see as) a rising threat, it’s not all doom and gloom – there are some extremely practical steps defenders can take to really lower the risk profile. Throw a few straightforward detections that we’ve compiled (they’ll come with Part 2, still cleaning up some rules sorry) in place, which cover many flavors of technique implementations associated with a wide range of these threats. Once you’ve set (and ideally validated) this coverage, consider tackling the likely more complex task of reviewing and tuning relevant people- and technology-related mitigations, including around identity & access (where today’s stealers pose some tricky challenges) and policies for responsible device use (to counter trending initial access vectors covered here in Part 1).
#infostealer #RedLine #Raccoon #StealerNoStealing #threatinformeddefense #SharedWithTidal #malware #risk
https://www.tidalcyber.com/blog/big-game-stealing-part-1-the-infostealer-landscape-rising-infostealer-threats-to-businesses-w -
Today we’re sharing initial versions of two dashboards that summarize the top attack techniques associated with two major trends from the past year. Both are rich with recent supporting evidence and fill important gaps around timely, aggregated, actionable information related to key threats that we expect will persist (and likely grow) in 2023.
Consider bookmarking both dashboards – we also expect we’ll need to update the groups & malware (and associated techniques) as activity continues into next year.
First is a roundup of #TTP associated with major #infostealer malware. This covers a total of 265 technique references (across 83 unique techniques) associated with 10 credential/info stealers that have been highly active over the past year-plus or emerged in recent months. Some likely familiar names, like Raccoon (and its v2 iteration), RedLine, & Mars, but also many others. The volume of #credentials stolen by malware like these has skyrocketed in recent years, and this vector has contributed to some of the past year’s most high-profile breaches. Many initial infections occur through individual personal downloads, but this is a multi-faceted threat that absolutely creates risk for organizations too. Check out the dashboard in Tidal’s free Community Edition here: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/ec62f5e0-bd40-476b-a560-7ad2779ea9e3
Next is the Data Extortion Ecosystem TTP map. Driven by a few factors, most notably speed, we’ve observed a clear shift among some groups in the #ransom/extortion space toward attacks that feature no actual #ransomware-based encryption, but rather just data exfiltration (and in some cases outright data destruction or manipulation). This combined heatmap covers eight groups & software leading this trend, including some covered recently in U.S. federal government CTI reporting, like LAPSUS$ & Karakurt, but also a few lesser known threats (RansomHouse and…Donut Leaks?). Currently this covers 135 technique references (across 68 unique techniques), but I definitely expect this set to evolve into early next year & beyond: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/1a265091-97af-4491-bce7-3d94c4935406
Consider these early previews of some of our top #CTI content themes for the first half of 2023 – lots more written analysis to come on these, and if you want the full picture, sign up for our 2023 threat landscape briefing, scheduled for noon ET on January 10! https://hubs.la/Q01v-PN00