Connecting the dots to North Korea as a threat adversary
Reports of malware campaigns invariably focus on two critical conclusions: attribution and who was the intended target of the attack. It is challenging to draw swift …
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The great attribution debate: Why we should focus on HOW not WHO
Organisations often don’t understand what they need to be protecting themselves from when it comes to costly cyber-attacks. The threat landscape is becoming ever-more …
UK government officially blames Russia for NotPetya attack
The UK government has officially attributed the June 2017 NotPetya cyber attack to the Russian government. The statement is backed by an assessment of the UK’s National Cyber …
Can an international cyber convention ever succeed?
The Cold War is a distant memory for most, but today we see a new struggle for dominance on the global stage – with cyber weapons being the latest focal point. The advance of …
Could an independent NGO solve the problem of cyber attack attribution?
Cyber attack attribution is a necessary prerequisite for holding actors accountable for malicious cyber activity, but is notoriously difficult to achieve. Perhaps it’s …
Not all threat intelligence is created equal
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, John Czupak, CEO at ThreatQuotient, and Jonathan Couch, Senior VP of Strategy at ThreatQuotient, talk about what’s important …
Increasingly sophisticated attacks call for advanced protection tools
A new NTT Security report underscores the need for more advanced tools to protect organizations’ data and networks from the evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) …
Playing the blame game: Breaking down cybersecurity attribution
Attributing the adversary behind a cyber attack ranks as perhaps the hardest challenge in all of cyber security, well beyond securing networks from intrusions, for the simple …
Disttrack wiper malware hits Saudi Arabia’s aviation agency
Shamoon attackers with their Disttrack wiper malware have hit Saudi Arabian entities again. The Saudi government confirmed the latest breaches on Thursday, and for now the …
Dyn DDoS attack: The aftermath
On October 21, New Hampshire-based Internet performance management company Dyn suffered the largest DDoS attack ever to be registered. The attacks – there were three, in …
Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim
The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat …
Leaked hacking tools can be tied to NSA’s Equation Group
The batch of data released by the Shadow Brokers, an entity that claims to have hacked the Equation Group, contains attack tools that can be tied to the group. Equation Group …
