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What We Knew About Bin Laden in Abbottabad and Pakistan
Information continues to stream out of every major media outlet allowing us to fill in details on the intelligence and operation that led to a team of Navy SEALs killing Osama bin Laden this past...
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Who Fills the Al-Qaeda Leadership Void?
As one recent NPR headline read, “Bin Laden Is Dead; Al-Qaida Isn’t“. So, as we learn more and more about the last years of Osama bin Laden’s life holed up in Abbottabad, the increasingly more relevant...
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Discovering Sandworm IOCs With Recorded Future Maltego Transforms
Yesterday, iSIGHT Partners published a blog post announcing the discovery of CVE-2014-4114, a zero-day vulnerability used in a Russian cyber-espionage campaign. The campaign was dubbed Sandworm and...
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221 of the Fortune 500 Have Exposed Credentials on the Web
Recorded Future analysis published in the “The Fortune 500’s Unfortunate 221″ threat intelligence report identified employee credential exposures for at least 44% of major US companies in 2014. These...
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Exposed Corporate Credentials on the Open Web, a Real Security Risk
Last Friday, a New York Times article described how the recent online attack against JPMorgan was possibly connected to a data breach on a third-party website. The target mentioned in the article is...
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3 Important Security Trends for ICS/SCADA Systems
Last week, we presented a webinar with the ICS/SCADA experts from Cimation. Industrial control systems (ICS) are the “nervous systems” that manage facilities and operations, everything from robotic...
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Recorded Future Transforms for Maltego Now Available
We’re delighted to announce the release of Recorded Future transforms for Maltego! Why You Care These transforms make it simple and fast to fuse our information into Maltego investigations. If you’ve...
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New Malicious Networks Discovered in Dark Hotel Malware Campaign
Analysis Summary Recorded Future discovered technical indicators that suggest malware used in the Dark Hotel campaign has been in the wild since 2009. The Dark Hotel malware campaign has links to...
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Breaking the Code on Russian Malware
Russia poses a serious cyber threat to industrial control systems (ICS), pharmaceutical, defense, aviation, and petroleum companies. Russian government cyber operations aim to use malware to steal...
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Organizing Big Data for Analysis
Since 2009, we have been building an index of the web for intelligence analysis. Consequently, we have lots of data at Recorded Future (billions of data points). But where does the data come from? And...
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POS Malware Overview for the 2014 Holiday Shopping Season
Almost a year has passed since the infamous Target breach that took place during the 2013 holiday shopping season, resulting in the digital theft of an unprecedented 70 million consumer credit cards...
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New Research Shows Most Vulnerabilities Exploited in About a Week
Recorded Future research published in “Week to Weak: The Weaponization of Cyber Vulnerabilities” identified the short window of time system administrators have before announced software vulnerabilities...
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Tracking Moving Targets: Exploit Kits and CVEs
One year ago a notorious programmer Paunch, who coded the Blackhole exploit kit, was arrested and charged for the distribution and sale of his wares. Blackhole was an epic Russian exploit kit, rented...
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Recorded Future Integrates With HP ArcSight for Threat Intelligence Automation
We are excited to launch our new integration with HP ArcSight security information and event management (SIEM) solution. With this integration, customers using HP ArcSight can gain broad context about...
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Bridging the Gap Between IT Security and the Corporate Office
Editors Note Woody is the founder of Weathered Security. He helps companies meet information security challenges that aren’t just hard technologically, but also can be hard to clearly communicate...
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Give Your Cyber Intelligence Dashboards a Facelift With These Advanced Chart...
This is the third post in our blog series, “Visualizing Cyber Intelligence.” In the cyber security world, charts and dashboards are indispensable. Yet, few analysts take the time to consider which is...
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Cyber Security in 2015: Tom Davenport’s Optimistic View in the Wall Street...
By all accounts, 2014 has been a very active year for cyber security with multiple high-profile breaches culminating with the Sony Pictures incident. Going into 2015, the spotlight on both cyber...
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Improved Recorded Future Transforms for Maltego Now Available
Since the November general release of our Maltego integration, we’ve had strong interest and uptake from threat intelligence analysts. We’ve also heard great ideas for improving and expanding the...
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Lizard Squad: Two Bot Thugs
Analysis Summary Web intelligence has led to an analysis of Lizard Squad’s Linux botnet, LizardStresser or lizardstresser.su. Further link analysis of an email address associated with LizardStresser...
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#JeSuisCharlie Movement Leveraged to Distribute DarkComet Malware
Analysis Summary DarkComet malware found to be exploiting French-speaking targets and distributed using the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag. Recorded Future found DarkComet distribution across hacking forums...
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