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Implementing the Ransomware Task Force’s Recommendations in the Cybersecurity Industry

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

CTA News

Cyber Threat Alliance Turns 4!

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…

CTA News

Looking Back on 2020

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…

Major Incidents

Incident Response Blog: SUNBURST / SolarWinds

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…