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Syrian Electronic Army Phishing in Turkey, Turkish Hackers Retaliate
The Syrian Electronic Army was busy playing both offense and defense last week. They reportedly gained access to multiple Microsoft assets including social media channels and the Official Microsoft...
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Tripwire’s State of Security blog is running an interesting series on cyber intelligence with Robert M. Lee, an active-duty U.S. Air Force Cyberspace Operations Officer and co-founder of Dragos...
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Observing the Ebb and Flow of Cross-Platform Malware
Recent news of a cross-platform, Java-based backdoor used to create a DDoS botnet (ThreatPost authored a valuable brief) prompted us to revisit a late November report by MobiStealth on the emergence of...
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Anti-Israel Hackers Parastoo Prepare for OpIsrael Anniversary
Anti-Israel hacker organization Parastoo last week announced its intention to join #OpIsrael2, also touted as OpIsrael Birthday, to commence in April. The group is targeting US, NATO, and ISAF...
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How Governments Can Use Web Intelligence for Insights
The following interview is with Simon Thacker and is from our Web Intelligence Perspectives Series. Simon is head of strategic early warning for the UK Cabinet Office. What is it about web intelligence...
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Working With ThreatConnect to Give Cyber Attacks Context
Recorded Future recently partnered with our friends at ThreatConnect to provide geopolitical context to their excellent analysis on cyber espionage in the South China Sea. We love this quote by the...
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4 Ways to Stop APT Attacks Using Web Intelligence
In case you missed it, below is a brief recap of our webinar yesterday with Oren Falkowitz. Oren began with a baseline, observing most efforts to combat APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) focus on...
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Dan Geer on Web Intelligence and Cyber Security
The following interview is with Dan Geer and is from our Web Intelligence Perspectives Series. Dan is currently the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel. What is it about web intelligence...
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Shedding Light on STTEAM
Researchers from Fidelis Security in February reported a newly identified cyber campaign dubbed STTEAM (PDF) found to be targeting oil and gas companies in the Middle East. The Fidelis team provided...
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Understanding Moroccan Politics With Open Source Intelligence
Analysis Summary Open source intelligence indicates political tensions surrounding the Moroccan Justice and Development Party steadily increased between 2012 and 2013. Open source intelligence also...
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Iranian Hacker Network Linked to Familiar Group?
News of an Iranian hacker network targeting US government officials made waves yesterday after being uncovered by iSIGHT Partners. Buried deep in Reuters’ report is a password used by the group:...
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Cyber Threat Landscape: Basic Overview and Attack Methods
This is the first post in our blog series that aims to provide a basic overview of the contemporary cyber threat landscape. The flourishing synergy between the internet and its beneficiaries, who use...
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Cyber Threat Landscape: Attackers and Operations
This is the second post in our blog series that aims to provide a basic overview of the contemporary cyber threat landscape. In 1996, a group of RAND researchers published a seminal book on the then...
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Cyber Threat Landscape: Forecast
This is the third post in our blog series that aims to provide a basic overview of the contemporary cyber threat landscape. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Comprehensive...
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How to Use STIX for Automated Sharing and Graphing of Cyber Threat Data
MITRE, a not-for-profit organization with offices near Boston and Washington, D.C., has developed several interrelated toolkits to enable sharing of cyber threat intelligence between trusted parties....
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Navigating the Future With Web Data: Christopher Ahlberg at TEDxCambridge 2014
Is it really possible to know the future? Recorded Future CEO Christopher Ahlberg says yes, if we organize the web for analysis, rather than search. With those insights in hand, leaders can make...
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Is it Possible to Use Web Intelligence to Forecast International Crisis?
By using Recorded Future in conjunction with traditional ethnographic techniques, it is possible for us to significantly increase our accuracy in forecasting international and diplomatic crisis. This...
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Recap: Spring 2014 Product Improvements
Now that summer is here, let’s recap the Recorded Future product improvements we rolled out over the last three months. With our SaaS approach, we deliver improvements in weekly increments, along with...
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4 Ways Alert Logic Leverages Open Source Intelligence
Last week, we were thrilled to present a webinar featuring threat intelligence expert Stephen Coty. Stephen is the Chief Security Evangelist of Alert Logic, a well-known managed security service...
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Buk SAMs and the Downing of MH17
Analysis Summary Recorded Future web intelligence highlights multiple June/July reports that Ukrainian separatists had acquired Buk anti-aircraft missiles. With hindsight, it’s surprising that these...
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