The Impact of the SolarWinds Breach on Cybersecurity
Key Takeaways From the SolarWinds Breach The SolarWinds hack has presented a cybersecurity reckoning at a scale never before seen for the US government and private enterprises. While the width …
Conceptualizing a Continuum of Cyber Threat Attribution
Few topics in the field of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) prompt as much passion and debate as the concept of threat attribution. From numerous conference talks, to blogs and papers, …
Dealing With Short Search Terms When Using DNSDB Flexible Search
The initial launch of Farsight Security’s DNSDB® allowed users to search for patterns in passive DNS expressions. Built with ease of use in mind, DNSDB allows security teams to pivot …
SANS 2022 Top New Attacks and Threat Report
Historically, security managers had the challenge of convincing C-Suite leaders and boards of directors of existing or potential threats. While those days are not necessarily long-gone, the persistence of ransomware …
The 2022 Threat Hunting Report
The Evolution of Threat Hunting Threat hunting continues to evolve for organizations that focus on proactively detecting and isolating Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that might otherwise go undetected by traditional, …
Comparing Images Such as Screenshots Using Perceptual Hashes
While investigating websites, analysts often acquire images, either as individual files from the sites or as screenshots (perhaps from Iris Investigate). The question is then “Can we identify images that …
Threat Intelligence Playbook: Making Sense of Indicators
In recent years, organizations around the world realized that a new era of cyber threats had dawned. Ransomware has advanced significantly and is now capable of taking out infrastructure and …
Domains That Begin With A Digit
Risk management is central to modern operational cybersecurity practice. DomainTools currently uses a proprietary machine learning model to compute risk scores for effective 2nd-level domains. This comparative case study looks …
SANS Top New Attacks and Threat Report
There are many places to find backward-looking statistics of how many attacks were launched in cyberspace. Forward-looking guidance areas that security managers should focus on are harder to find. In …
The Economic Benefits of DomainTools Internet Intelligence
Earlier detection and more comprehensive domain intelligence from DomainTools avoids organizational risk and improves security team efficiency, helping teams identify more malicious threats faster.
