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POS Malware Overview for the 2014 Holiday Shopping Season
Almost a year has passed since the infamous Target breach that took place during the 2013 holiday shopping season, resulting in the digital theft of an unprecedented 70 million consumer credit cards...
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New Research Shows Most Vulnerabilities Exploited in About a Week
Recorded Future research published in “Week to Weak: The Weaponization of Cyber Vulnerabilities” identified the short window of time system administrators have before announced software vulnerabilities...
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Tracking Moving Targets: Exploit Kits and CVEs
One year ago a notorious programmer Paunch, who coded the Blackhole exploit kit, was arrested and charged for the distribution and sale of his wares. Blackhole was an epic Russian exploit kit, rented...
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Recorded Future Integrates With HP ArcSight for Threat Intelligence Automation
We are excited to launch our new integration with HP ArcSight security information and event management (SIEM) solution. With this integration, customers using HP ArcSight can gain broad context about...
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Bridging the Gap Between IT Security and the Corporate Office
Editors Note Woody is the founder of Weathered Security. He helps companies meet information security challenges that aren’t just hard technologically, but also can be hard to clearly communicate...
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Give Your Cyber Intelligence Dashboards a Facelift With These Advanced Chart...
This is the third post in our blog series, “Visualizing Cyber Intelligence.” In the cyber security world, charts and dashboards are indispensable. Yet, few analysts take the time to consider which is...
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Cyber Security in 2015: Tom Davenport’s Optimistic View in the Wall Street...
By all accounts, 2014 has been a very active year for cyber security with multiple high-profile breaches culminating with the Sony Pictures incident. Going into 2015, the spotlight on both cyber...
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Improved Recorded Future Transforms for Maltego Now Available
Since the November general release of our Maltego integration, we’ve had strong interest and uptake from threat intelligence analysts. We’ve also heard great ideas for improving and expanding the...
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Lizard Squad: Two Bot Thugs
Analysis Summary Web intelligence has led to an analysis of Lizard Squad’s Linux botnet, LizardStresser or lizardstresser.su. Further link analysis of an email address associated with LizardStresser...
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#JeSuisCharlie Movement Leveraged to Distribute DarkComet Malware
Analysis Summary DarkComet malware found to be exploiting French-speaking targets and distributed using the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag. Recorded Future found DarkComet distribution across hacking forums...
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Exploring IP Ranges With Recorded Future: Are the ‘APT1 Ranges’ Cleaned Up?
In this post we’re exploring new functionality in Recorded Future, which allows users to search the Recorded Future holdings for IP ranges. We’ll examine the IP ranges originally used by APT1 and...
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Live Webinar: 10 Threat Intelligence Goals for Financial Institutions
Please join us and guest, Russell Pierce CISSP, Vice President of Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence at Regions Financial Corporation for a live webinar. Title: 10 Threat Intelligence Goals for...
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How Iran’s Government Gags and Frees Media’s Cyber Coverage
As the Iranian cyber story unfolds on the world stage, a tightly controlled media has revealed what its leadership is thinking. The Iranian government has long been known to control its press. Some...
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Looking at the Past, and to the Future, with Recorded Future
A Chasm Crossing Superstar Recently, Randall Cronk at the request of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, sat down with Recorded Future’s CEO, Christopher Ahlberg to learn about the company’s...
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Threat Intelligence in an Active Cyber Defense (Part 1)
Many organizations have bought into the idea of cyber threat intelligence but two questions tend to dominate the discussion: How do you use threat intelligence and when is an organization ready to use...
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Threat Intelligence in an Active Cyber Defense (Part 2)
In this second part of the discussion on threat intelligence (read part one here) we will explore how organizations can incorporate threat intelligence to better achieve security. Threat intelligence...
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Explosive Growth in ISIS Tweets: Arabic Overtakes English
The following analysis was done in collaboration with Sky News. Analysis Summary Analysis by Recorded Future of ISIS-related Twitter activity during 2014 and 2015 shows there has been some dramatic...
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Investigating vBulletin Security Issues with Recorded Future
On January 8, 2015, website security company Sucuri revealed in their blog a serious vulnerability tied to a Search engine optimization (SEO) module for vBulletin. vBulletin is a popular forum engine...
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Monitoring Tor Exit Nodes for Malicious Activity
Recorded Future finds that Tor is rising in popularity as an infrastructure for malicious Web activity. This post will demonstrate how we can create actionable alerts and data exports for defending...
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Cyber Caliphate: ISIS Plays Offense on the Web
Cyber Caliphate’s attack of US Central Command’s Twitter page on January 12, 2015, got the attention of the United States and the world, and brought the cyber threat of ISIS to the forefront. Questions...
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