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The Industry

Combating Botnets through Consumer IoT Cybersecurity Labeling

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

CTA News

Updating the 2020 Summer Olympics Threat Assessment

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

CTA News

CTA: A Trusted Environment

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

Major Incidents

Incident Response Blog: Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities

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

Best Practices

Government Handling of Zero-Days: More Sunlight, Fewer Shadows

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

CTA News

Data Diversity: The CTA Advantage

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

Guest Blogs

A Matter of Trust

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