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The end of the SOC pyramid

AI is retiring the SOC pyramid. Learn how a tierless AI SOC investigates 100% of alerts with forensic evidence while your analysts supervise outcomes.

Zev Schonberg

Research

5 min

NinjaMare and the enterprise security epidemic hiding behind a harmless label

The PUA label, aka "potentially unwanted application" means nuisance. Adware, toolbars, and other things that change your settings without asking. Our research team's findings say this label is far more serious than a mere nuisance.

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Research

6 minutes

BLOCKBUSTED: Lazarus, Blockbuster, and North Korea

Malware Analysis

3 minutes

Don’t Be Fooled By Malware Signed with Stolen Certificates

Recent research conducted by the Cyber Security Research Institute (CSRI) demonstrates how easy and common it is for threat actors to purchase stolen digital certificates in order to bypass security solutions.

Research

2 minutes

IcedID Banking Trojan Shares Code with Pony 2.0 Trojan

IBM X-Force recently released an excellent report on a new banking trojan named IcedID that is being distributed using computers already infected with Emotet. We took the MD5 of one of the droppers from the IBM report and extracted the payload.

Research

2 minutes

Silence of the Moles

Kaspersky Labs published a technical analysis of a new malware, Silence that is aimed at attacking financial institutions. After uploading the loader of this malware to Intezer Analyze™, we have found a possible connection through code reuse to the loader of another campaign of malware.

Research

2 minutes

NotPetya Returns as Bad Rabbit

Large scale cyber attacks seem to be happening once a month these days. Originally discovered by ESET, Ukrainian and Russian organizations have been hit with the latest ransomware attack named Bad Rabbit.

Alert Triage

4 minutes

False Positive Madness: Reducing the Burden of Time-Wasting Alerts

Security teams have a lot of noise and false positives to deal with in their day-to-day jobs. Every organization is managing thousands of alerts each month.

Incident Response

3 minutes

Cyber Threat Diversion: Managing the False Positive Madness

Security teams have a lot of noise to deal with in their day-to-day jobs. Every organization is managing thousands of alerts each month — and that’s in an ideal scenario. Some are dealing with this volume on a daily basis, making it nearly impossible to stay ahead of possible threats.

Malware Analysis

5 minutes

Meet the Founders: Alon Cohen

Serial entrepreneur Alon Cohen co-founded and grew one of the world’s first cyber security startups, CyberArk, which eventually became a ‘unicorn’.

Research

4 minutes

North Korea and Iran Use CodeProject to Develop Their Malware

In the software development world, engineers frequently use ready-made code for various tasks, whether it involves copying a snippet from Stack Overflow, taking a library from Github, or reusing a company’s own rich, legacy code base.

Research

5 minutes

Evidence Aurora Operation Still Active Part 2: More Ties Uncovered Between CCleaner Hack & Chinese Hackers

We have found new evidence in the next stage payloads of the CCleaner supply chain attack that provide a stronger link between this attack and the Axiom group.

Research

4 minutes

Evidence Aurora Operation Still Active: Supply Chain Attack Through CCleaner

Recently, there have been a few attacks with a supply chain infection, such as Shadowpad being implanted in many of Netsarang’s products, affecting millions of people. You may have the most up to date cyber security software, but when the software you are trusting to keep you protected gets infected there is a problem.

Malware Analysis

5 minutes

Intezer Community Tip: How to Optimize ssdeep Comparisons with ElasticSearch

Using ssdeep to find similarities between files can be quite effective when employing the right optimization methods

Research

6 minutes

New Variants of Agent.BTZ/ComRAT Found: The Threat That Hit The Pentagon In 2008 Still Evolving; Part 2/2

Our previous blog post was a short brief of new Agent.BTZ variants that we found. This second part in the series will demonstrate in greater detail exactly how we discovered these new variants.

Malware Analysis

6 minutes

About the Founders: Meet CEO Itai Tevet

Itai Tevet was the self-described ‘PC kid’ whose fascination with technology led to a strong interest in information security–an interest that benefited him as he grew into increasingly more responsible cyber security leadership roles within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Incident Response

6 minutes

Why Identifying ‘Good or Bad’ is Not Enough

Not performing a deeper analysis after the initial infection prevents us from performing an effective remediation to the actual problem.