Why I Chose to Join AttackIQ as a Senior Advisor

Why I Chose to Join AttackIQ as a Senior Advisor

After 30 years in cyber defense and research, I joined AttackIQ to bring clarity and prioritize what truly matters in security. The post Why I Chose to Join AttackIQ as a Senior ...

Insights from the DeepSeek Malicious Software Package Incident: Why Software Supply Chain Security Matters in Global AI Technology Competition

Background With the widespread application of AI technology, software supply chains are facing more complex and diverse security threats. Since January 2025, DeepSeek, as an emerging force in China’s AI industry, has ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Malicious Life Podcast: Inside the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

In some ways, cybersecurity is like art, but that’s not a good thing… The MITRE ATT&CK framework aims to make sense of the collective knowledge of the security community and share that ...
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Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware

Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to have been part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims ...

5 Things to Do with MITRE ATT&CK – Tips and Tricks Special

MITRE ATT&CK stands for MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge. It’s a curated knowledge base of adversarial behavior based on real-world observation of APT campaigns. The original impetus for the project ...

DARK COMMERCE: parallel economy provides easy on-ramp for would-be cybercriminals

The cybercriminal industry is evolving, with a growing shadow economy that trades goods and services in much the same way as the legitimate cybersecurity sector. Today we publish a new report and ...

The MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Impact

Not all attackers are trying to exfiltrate data. In security, we’re all familiar with CIA triad—confidentiality, availability, and integrity. While Exfiltration describes adversarial behavior with the goal of violating confidentiality, attackers may ...
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TOP 5 ATT&CK techniques used by Threat Actors tied to Iran

On the 3rd of January 2020, the Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump at Baghdad International Airport. Since then, popular demonstrations ...

ATT&CK Structure Part II: From Taxonomy to Ontology

In Part I, I described some structural problems in MITRE’s ATT&CK adversarial behavior framework. We looked at a couple of examples of techniques that vary greatly in terms of abstraction as well ...
Figure 1 – Monero’s value in USD from December 2018 to June 2019, source - CoinGecko.com

Cryptojacking: An Unwanted Guest

We analyse a cryptojacking attack that mines the Monero cryptocurrency. The value of Monero in US dollars has more than doubled over the first half of 2019, from $46 to $98. The ...