The 2024 edition of the WP CTF has ended, and we are thrilled to announce its resounding success! This year, approximately 80 participants formed teams from across Europe, including Greece, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. Staying true to tradition, WP CTF 2024 featured a Jeopardy-style competition with diverse categories such as AI, Cryptography, OSINT, Web,…
Read MoreOriginally developed as a proof of concept, SATAYO was designed to gather and analyze OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) data on a single machine. Initially, the platform functioned as a single-threaded script, and scaling was only considered later. As SATAYO’s capabilities evolved to meet the needs of more clients and monitor a greater number of domains,…
Read MoreIn this post, we’ll explore the synergy between a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) platform and a traditional Security Operations Center (SOC) service. For those interested in the topic, I recommend reading my previous article, where I demonstrated a concrete example of integration between our SIEM and SATAYO, the CTI platform we use in our SOC….
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Many of you have probably already heard about the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This framework is an important point of reference at the international level and is used within thousands of projects, detection rules, platforms. The Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge is a guideline for classifying and describing cyberattacks and intrusions. It was created by…
Read MoreThe team behind the popular underground forum BlackForums has announced, on its Telegram channel, that it has formed a new pact with the BloodForge group. From this pact was born The Brotherhood, an organization that aims to provide a RaaS (Ransomware as a Service). The new BloodForge channel then presented the features and capabilities of…
Read MoreThe purpose of this article is to show a real-life case study of the integration of the new Elastic ES|QL language within the detection rules used by the SOC to detect cyber threats. Overview ES|QL (Elasticsearch Query Language) is an SQL-like query language developed by Elastic specifically for querying time series and event data stored…
Read MoreThere’s no way around it: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our world in profound ways, and it’s here to stay. In recent years we’ve entered a golden age for specialized hardware and algorithms suited to enhance machine learning models. These technologies are now bringing significant advances across various sectors, from finance to healthcare, from e-commerce to…
Read MoreHello everyone, today I’d like to show you how we exploited the Not a democratic election challenge from HTB Business CTF 2024. This challenge is of type Blockchain and is based on Solidity Smart Contracts for Ethereum. Since the official exploit uses Foundry, and I couldn’t run Foundry on my workstation, I’d like to report…
Read MoreOn Friday morning, July 19th, a major computer outage caused problems in Microsoft computers all over the world. There were delays and flight cancellations at several airports, and malfunctions in the computer systems of banks, shops, hospitals and the media. The IT blackout was caused by a faulty update released for Falcon Sensor, the EDR…
Read MoreHave you already read this blog post Adding soar features to the soc part 1 vulnerability management? If not, you have to! It explains the SOAR features leveraged by the Würth Phoenix SOC and how we implement our Vulnerability Management process. In this article, I’ll take a step back, focusing on what happens before the…
Read MoreTeamViewer, the popular remote access software developed by the company of the same name, discovered an irregularity in its internal IT environment on 26 June. They disclosed the potential breach in a statement the following day, stating that they had immediately begun an investigation to implement remediation measures. In an update on Friday 28th, TeamViewer…
Read MoreIn this article, we’re going to explore an example of the process used to perform the initial steps of creating ad hoc detection rules based on specific events that mark the world of cyber security. Specifically, starting from a real case, we’ll see the study and analysis carried out to create a rule to monitor…
Read MoreIn this blog, I’ll propose and describe a solution for detecting potential infostealers targeting Chromium-based browsers, taking a cue from the research exposed by Google’s Chrome Security Team (Detecting browser data theft using Windows Event Logs). Obviously a solution using Elastic 🙂 ! What is an Infostealer (in a nutshell) ? In the realm of…
Read MoreOn May 21, Veeam published details about four different vulnerabilities detected in their product Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM). One of them is critical and allows an unauthenticated attacker to log in to the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web interface as any user. CVE Number CVSS Score EPSS Score CVE-2024-29849 9.8 (Critical) 0.04% (Low) CVE-2024-29850…
Read MoreSYNLAB, European leader in medical diagnostic services, was the victim of a cyber attack last April. The compromised infrastructure is the one that runs Italians clinics only, other countries were not affected. In early May, ransomware group BlackBasta claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had stolen 1.5TB of sensitive medical data from Italian citizens….
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