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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
On January 23rd, CTA turned four. It seems like both a long time and a brief moment since our six founding members officially incorporated the organization as a non-profit. Since then, CTA members and staff have worked hard to turn the company into a viable long-term sharing organization. In that…
Maybe it should be unsurprising that 2020 has no intention of going quietly. By the beginning of December, it had already given us a sudden explosion in remote work, COVID-19 themed lures, a ransomware surge, election disinformation, and 5G deployment battles. Yet, 2020 was not finished. As we head…
On December 13, FireEye and Microsoft released information regarding a newly discovered nation-state campaign actors leveraging access to the SolarWinds Orion Platform. The SolarWinds Orion Platform is used for IT infrastructure management in many government agencies and corporate networks. Nation-state actors compromised the SolarWinds supply chain to trojanize…