Threat Detection

Kaspersky Lab experts have identified an overlap in cyberattacks between two infamous threat actors, GreyEnergy – which is believed to be a successor of BlackEnergy – and the Sofacy cyberespionage group. Both actors used the same servers at the same time, with, however, a different purpose. BlackEnergy and Sofacy hacking groups are considered to be two of the major actors in the modern cyberthreat landscape. In the past, their activities often led to devastating national...

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of service assurance, security, and business analytics, today introduced NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense (AED), a new security solution that redefines the perimeter cyber security stack and serves as the first and last line of defense against multiple types of inbound and outbound threats. “Data center and network architectures are becoming increasingly distributed, straining traditional perimeter enforcement points. At the same time, targeted campaigns are now backed by...

OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter Delivers Simple, Fast Threat Visibility to Assess Business Risk from Malware and Other Threats. At RSA Conference 2018, AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management® (USM) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced the launch of its OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter™, a free threat-scanning service in the Open Threat Exchange® (OTX™) available to any registered OTX user. This first-of-its-kind service natively leverages over 19 million indicators of compromise (IoCs) contributed to...

Ensono™, a leading hybrid IT services provider, partnered with Alert Logic, a leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, to deliver continuous monitoring, threat detection and response for Ensono’s managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) clients. Ensono will leverage Alert Logic’s managed security service offering built on Alert Logic Cloud Defender suite to deliver increased security and compliance protection for clients’ data, workloads and applications based on AWS. This new service offering combines security tools, experts and operational...

OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter Delivers Simple, Fast Threat Visibility to Assess Business Risk from Malware and Other Threats. At RSA Conference 2018, AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management® (USM) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced the launch of its OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter™, a free threat-scanning service in the Open Threat Exchange® (OTX™) available to any registered OTX user. This first-of-its-kind service natively leverages over 19 million indicators of compromise (IoCs) contributed to...