Written by: Yongjia Chen, Dathan Duplichen, Andrew Shu, Anna Nguyen Yip Although the ransomware threat currently gets the most attention, botnets remain a significant problem in the digital ecosystem. As part of our capstone project in the Master’s in International Policy degree program at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International… Read More
Written by Jon-Louis Heimerl, CISSP, Sr. Manager, Threat Intelligence Communications, NTT Ltd. As 2020 drew to a close, NTT Ltd worked on our annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). The data showed some interesting results, so I asked Michael Daniel what kind of impact he thought COVID-19 was having on… Read More
The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) released our first threat assessment focusing on the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo way back in February 2020. Around the release date, we were seeing stories of a novel coronavirus beginning to spread. Some of us were starting to get concerned about it here in… Read More
This week, the Ransomware Task Force released its report on combating ransomware. The RTF, sponsored by the Institute for Security & Technology, is made up of more than 50 expert volunteers from software companies, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions. The Task Force’s report is timely and its… Read More
The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) Sharing Model relies on our organization’s status as a trusted environment for all of our private-sector members, as well as public sector and civil society partners. That trust also allows us to do so much more. The fact that all of CTA’s private-sector… Read More
During recent weeks, cybersecurity providers, businesses, governments, and other organizations have been responding to the publicization of four zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065). On March 2, Microsoft released emergency, out-of-band security updates to address these vulnerabilities, which affect a… Read More
This post was originally authored by Josh Kenway. To say the least, 2020 was a turbulent year. While certain governments responded to the spread of COVID-19 more effectively than others, the pandemic’s disruptive impact on human society is sure to linger well into this new decade. The paramount importance of… Read More
Despite the general turbulence unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, CTA has continued over the last year to mature as an organization in terms of both our threat intelligence sharing and membership growth. Of course, these two aspects are closely intertwined. Because our membership rules require all CTA members to share,… Read More
Written by Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances, Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs With the 4th anniversary of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) having just occurred, I got to thinking about how the CTA started. Not with the incorporation of the organization in 2017, but with the… Read More
Written by Ryan Olson, VP Threat Intelligence (Unit 42), Palo Alto Networks When Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet co-founded the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) in 2014, which eventually incorporated on January 23, 2017, I would have never guessed years later there would be 30+ members. It’s a significant accomplishment… Read More