Cobalt Strike (S0154) is a commercial penetration testing platform which is used by many red teams and, unfortunately, also by many criminal threat actors. In this post I summarise the findings from a SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response keynote by Chad Tilbury : Cobalt Strike Threat Hunting. The YouTube video provides much more details but below you can find those findings that were relevant for me during an IR case.

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For a recent assignment, I had to summarise some of the legislation and cooperation frameworks that exist between CSIRTs and law enforcement agencies. This list is certainly not complete but already gives you an overview of what’s available. I first list the frameworks and then provide an overview of some of the existing cooperation mechanisms.

2001 – International

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I published an article on the IBM Security Intelligence blog : Health Care Ransomware Strains Have Hospitals in the Crosshairs. This article covers ways on how hospitals and other facilities can against health care ransomware attacks. Two strains stand out in recent health care ransomware attacks: Ryuk and REvil. Although they are distinct when it comes to details, they also have some common elements.

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I published an article on the IBM Security Intelligence blog : Combating Sleeper Threats With MTTD. The article covers mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to response (MTTR).

I cover some of the options available to reduce the MTTD, what elements can be used to define baselines and how to improve security monitoring and maturity by improving the MTTD.