January was an interesting moth for CTI practitioners! I took some time and collected the major articles and presentations that I read and watched during January 2019.
I hope you enjoy it. Continue reading “Threat Intel Reads – January 2019”
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ENISA Threat Landscape 2018 Report
Reading ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018
The annual ENISA Threat Landscape report for 2018 is out! The report focuses on the threat landscape changes and developments in motives and tactics of the most important threat agent groups, namely cyber-criminals and state-sponsored actors. Continue reading “ENISA Threat Landscape 2018 Report”
My Top 20 CTI/DFIR Talks for 2018
Another year has passed and lots of good CTI/DFIR stuff have been presented! I took some time to watch again some of my favourite talks within 2018 and list my favourite 20 ones. The list provided below has a CTI focus, however some of the most representative talks related to blue team/red team as well as ICS have been selected. I hope you enjoy it! Continue reading “My Top 20 CTI/DFIR Talks for 2018”
Let’s make CTI great (again)!
On 5th and 6th November 2018, the annual CTI-EU event took place in Brussels. CTI-EU is organised by European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) in cooperation with DG Connect, CERT-EU and EDA
The event had various sessions with different focus (see full agenda here):
CrowdStrike’s 2018 Mid-Year Review
During the past week CrowdStrike published its 2018 Mid-Year Review call “Observation from the front lines of threat hunting“. This report provides insights, trends and details on today’s most sophisticated cyber attacks observed by CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch team.
Some interesting points of the report include:
Anti-Virus Log Analysis Cheat Sheet (v1.5)
Florian Roth published the new version of Anti-Virus Log Analysis Cheat Sheet (version 1.5). I highly recommend to implement monitoring of the events included in this cheat sheet. To my mind, this is the easiest and quickest win and AV logs are one of the first things I hunt whenever I go to a new environment.
The new version has information on :
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Latest advances in MITRE’s ATT&CK framework
Lots of good stuff going on for MITRE ATT&CK framework. It’s great to see the whole project evolving and stimulating cybersecurity community to better analyse intrusions and actors, enhance controls and active defense activities. See some of the latest updates:
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Costin Raiu on future sophisticated attacks
It was ~2 weeks ago when Costin Raiu wrote an article on “Where are all the ‘A’s in APT?”. In this article, Costin focused on what is regarded as sophisticated in observed APT attacks as well as how future detected sophisticated attacks will look like:
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Mapping Threat Actor TTPs to ATT&CK Framework
This is a great blog post from Digital Shadows . Their team has gone through Mueller GRU indictment and mapped the mentioned capabilities to ATT&CK framework TTPs (accompanied with mitigation advice per TTP).
Blue teams should learn from this type of analysis:
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Kevin Mandia on Nation State Actors
This is an interesting article based on FireEye, Inc. ‘s CEO Kevin Mandia presentation during CTI Forum. Some interesting points:
Tilting at windmills 