Co-authored by Neil Jenkins and Natasha Cohen In May 2018, Cisco Talos shared threat indicators and analysis with other CTA members around a new threat: VPNFilter. VPNFilter is a sophisticated modular malware system that targeted networking equipment, ultimately infecting at least 500,000 devices at its peak. Its activity was…
On May 23, 2018, Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group publicly exposed a new malware threat they dubbed VPNFilter. VPNFilter is a sophisticated modular malware system targeting networking equipment all over the world. This malware allowed for theft of website credentials, collection of data, injection of malicious content into network traffic…
In April, we blogged about CTA’s role in disrupting malicious cyber activity. We introduced the idea of routinely bringing our members together to develop Joint Analysis reports on specific threats and campaign activity, the same way our early members came together to report on the threat from Cryptowall…
CTA was absolutely thrilled to have recently celebrated our first anniversary just a few weeks ago during the RSA Conference. We highlighted strong growth in membership, in staff, and in the amount of cyber threat information we shared at machine speed on a daily basis. Our first year…
Previously in this series of blog posts, we discussed the steps that organizations can use to improve their cybersecurity and we looked at how cybersecurity companies need to share information to enable more effective network defense. When cybersecurity companies share contextualized technical indicators at speed and at scale and use…
As we noted in a recent blog post, “The Smarter Way to Think About Cybersecurity,” many organizations subscribe to the myth that cybersecurity is a technical problem for which there should be a technical solution. This mindset is problematic because it drives companies to try to buy their way…