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Weaponization for Disinformation
Continuing our series on the adversarial mindset, we focus on how actors weaponize narratives for disinformation operations. In a previous blog post, we wrote about the reconnaissance steps that disinformation actors take prior to launching their operations, including...
What is Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior?
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) is a common phrase heard in the news regarding disinformation, misinformation, and influence operations; but what exactly does it mean?First, let’s define our terms: inauthentic behavior, and coordinated. Inauthentic behavior in...
Weaponization for Cyber-Enabled Fraud
In our previous blog, we highlighted how fraudsters conduct reconnaissance for fraud activities. While banking malware, trojans, worms, and botnets such as Zeus Panda, Ramnit and Trickbot have typically been used to infect consumer PCs in order to collect personal...
Weaponizing Tools for Computer Network Operations
Continuing in our series on the adversarial mindset, we focus on weaponization for computer network operations. Following the reconnaissance phase and identifying a target, an actor needs to gain a foothold in a network before determining how to monetize the access or...
How Adversaries Conduct Reconnaissance for Disinformation Operations
Building on our series exploring the adversarial mindset, disinformation actors seek amplification of their content, regardless of whether their goal is financial, ideological, or political. Disinformation actors need venues to post their content that will be most...
An Introduction to Honeypots
In our latest blog series, we discuss how threat intelligence can be applied smarter for medium sized organizations with limited resources. We discuss ways to proactively detect threats beyond subscribing to information feeds that require a lot of resources to...
Using Selectors For Open Source Intelligence
A “selector” is not a generally defined term in enterprise security, but selectors are important for understanding open source intelligence and investigations in the digital realm. Building on our previous technical blog defining a selector, we will be diving deeper...
How Adversaries Conduct Reconnaissance for Fraud Operations
Building on our series on the adversarial mindset, fraudsters will identify a target based on the ease and speed with which they are able to monetize their fraudulent activities. Many of the reconnaissance steps involve a threat actor learning how a company conducts...
Making Threat Intelligence Useful for Medium-Sized Enterprises
Medium-sized enterprises that don’t have sophisticated security operations teams typically focus on the basic blocking and tackling of information security: policies around financial controls, incident response plans, data retention policies, disaster recovery around...
How Adversaries Conduct Reconnaissance For Computer Network Operations
The adversarial mindset is the core that allows us to provide a world-class intelligence capability tailored to the needs of business. Many people ask what it means to have the adversarial mindset and how that differentiates Nisos. While it’s a complicated answer...
Six Considerations for Building a Cyber Threat Intelligence Program
When evaluating cyber threat intelligence programs for enterprise, organizations should consider six critical topics before spending on data. It’s natural for an organization to start from one of two places: where they have already been beaten badly enough they need...
The Myth of Complex Passwords
Password reuse is one of the most pervasive security concerns for information security teams in enterprise. It’s an easy way for an adversary to gain initial access if two factor authentication is not properly implemented and more importantly, provides the ability to...
Three Steps to Use Threat Intelligence, Red Team, and Blue Team Collaboration to Improve Security
For many medium and large organizations, a penetration test that results in a “data breach” is going to lead to numerous findings that take months and sometimes years to remediate. In that timeframe, after operating systems are upgraded across non-production and...
What is a Selector in the World of Digital Crime?
Every hour of every day, criminals, nation states, and fraudsters around the world commit attacks using phone numbers, email addresses, and social media handles. We call these “selectors,” i.e. the technical attributes of an online entity. On the other side of the...
Avoiding Ransomware
Many maturing security operations centers within medium and large enterprises will indicate that ransomware is often the biggest “threat” that keeps them up at night. Ransomware is not a threat; it is a capability criminals use with an intent of monetizing illegal...
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