Case Study: DDOS Investigation Leads to Much Greater Network Security Bolstering
Topics:
Cybersecurity
DDOS
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Case Study: Attributing Short Sellers to Increase Confidence in Corporate Governance
A pharmaceutical company was facing a sophisticated “short and distort” stock market manipulation campaign, costing the company billions in market cap. A variety of virtual anonymous personas were publishing false information on the company’s leadership on social media and investing platforms - apparently in a coordinated fashion. These activities negatively influenced public perception about the company’s overall corporate governance and damaged the stock price thereby allowing those holding short positions to profit.
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shortseller
attribution
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Case Study: Online Indicators and Warning Enables Business
A multinational energy company operating in a volatile nation had recently faced serious threats to its personnel and infrastructure as threat actors had begun resorting to violence. The company needed in-depth social media sentiment analysis and timely indications and warnings across social media and closed online forums in order to achieve a more stable risk posture and protect its people and assets.
Case Study: Countering APTs, Ensuring M&A Standards Through Threat Hunting
A global retailer’s peers were attacked with customized ransomware and the retailer’s subsidiaries were being targeted with customized phishing attempts. Out of concern that a subsidiary could be targeted by a similar ransomware attack, Nisos was contacted to assist.
Case Study: Investigating a DDOS Attack
A global consultancy experienced network outages resulting from a large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack against their Domain Name Service (DNS) servers. Nisos was engaged to leverage access to external telemetry and analytic expertise in order to determine if the consultancy was specifically targeted by the DDOS attack and to perform potential attribution of the threat actors and attack sources.
Topics:
Cybersecurity
gap analysis
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Case Study: Third Party Risk Management, Investigating a Leak of Sensitive Data from a Customer
A global data and infrastructure provider determined a very tightly controlled database was for sale on the dark web. The Client discovered this database was being sold on criminal forums and needed to attribute the seller and the source of the leak.
Case Study: Insider Threat, Preventing Destruction During M&A
A global technology company was in the process of divesting a previous acquisition. Upon learning of the divestiture plan , the key executives at the acquisition company threatened to destroy corporate infrastructure if the company was not sold back to the original founders at a lower price.
Case Study: Threat Intelligence to Remediate Platform Abuse
A publicly traded technology company with thousands of global employees maintains a premier business unit application platform regularly abused by eCrime and cyber espionage actors.
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Cybersecurity
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Case Study: Actively Countering Advanced Persistent Threats with External Telemetry
A technology company with thousands of employees across the globe was under attack by a nation-state level adversary. They requested Nisos’ assistance to provide critical intelligence to detect indicators and respond to the attack.
Case Study: Cyber Diligence, Critical for M&A
