Since the start of Bitcoin in 2009, the popularity and prevalence of cryptocurrencies has exploded, resulting in a net worth of over $1 trillion that continues to grow. Cryptocurrency—held in virtual wallets—is obtained by users who purchase coins on a cryptocurrency exchange, receive coins as payment from someone else, or “mine” coins virtually themselves.

In the first two installments of this three-part series based on our recent white paper, The Skeptic’s Guide to Buying Security Tools, we provided an evidence-based approach to helping your organization justify a new security tool purchase and key considerations to future-proof that investment. In today’s post, we’ll discuss how to evaluate the efficacy of that tool once you’ve made the purchase and implemented it within your security ecosystem.

In this version of the Hacker’s Playbook Threat Coverage round-up, we are highlighting newly added coverage for several recently discovered or analyzed ransomware and malware variants, including NoEscape ransomware, AvosLocker ransomware, and Retch ransomware, amongst others. SafeBreach customers can select and run these attacks and more from the SafeBreach Hacker’s Playbook™ to ensure coverage against these advanced threats.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is one of the most commonly used resources within the SafeBreach platform. At SafeBreach’s 2023 Validate Summit—an event that brings security experts together to discuss challenges and best practices in proactive cybersecurity—SafeBreach Co-Founder and CTO Itzik Kotler sat down with Frank Duff, the Chief Innovation Officer at Tidal Cyber, to discuss threat informed defense and MITRE ATT&CK.

In a recent blog, we covered the basics of breach and attack simulation (BAS) and MITRE ATT&CK, including the challenges security teams often face when attempting to utilize the ATT&CK framework and how BAS can help. Now, it’s time to get more specific. In this installment of our latest series, we’ll discuss the ways organizations typically leverage BAS and MITRE ATT&CK for threat-informed defense.

Between the time it takes to stand up a new security tool in an IT environment, the resources needed to continually train personnel to effectively use each tool, and the raw cost of the solution itself, enterprise security teams invest quite a lot when introducing new security controls. Solutions that have been in place for a long time have likely grown with the team’s needs, and are well trusted within the organization.

In this version of the Hacker’s Playbook Threat Coverage round-up, we are highlighting newly added coverage for several recently discovered or analyzed ransomware and malware variants, including RagnarLocker ransomware, LokiLocker ransomware, and Humble ransomware, amongst others. SafeBreach customers can select and run these attacks and more from the SafeBreach Hacker’s Playbook™ to ensure coverage against these advanced threats.

On September 20th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an advisory highlighting the various indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the Snatch ransomware variant. This variant was identified as recently as June 1, 2023, by the FBI. Detailed information is listed in US-CERT Alert AA23-263A – #StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware.

At SafeBreach’s 2023 Validate Summit—a yearly event that brings together experts in the security community to discuss challenges, best practices, and key considerations for building a proactive security program—we asked attendees to share why they began using a breach and attack simulation (BAS) tool like SafeBreach. One of our customers had a straightforward answer: people, time, and money.

In July of this year, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) released Security Directive Pipeline-2021-02D (SD-02D) Pipeline Cybersecurity Mitigation Actions, Contingency Planning, and Testing. The directive—aimed at owners and operators of liquid and natural gas pipelines or facilities designated as critical infrastructure—outlines requirements for enhancing cyber resilience through the implementation of a TSA-approved cybersecurity implementation plan (CIP).