Octo Tempest is a threat actor known for employing social engineering, intimidation, and other human-centric tactics to gain initial access into an environment, granting themselves privilege to cloud and on-premises resources before exfiltrating data, and unleashing ransomware across an environment. Its extensive range of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and ability to pivot quickly and change malicious actions depending on the target organization's response make this threat actor one of the most dangerous financial criminal groups. In this blog post, Microsoft Incident Response provides a response playbook to empower defenders in tackling the challenges posed by Octo Tempest and evicting the threat actor from cloud and on-premises environments: https://msft.it/6044Y2DSK Read our past report on Octo Tempest, documenting their wide array of TTPs: https://msft.it/6045Y2DSz
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Octo Tempest is a threat actor known for employing social engineering, intimidation, and other human-centric tactics to gain initial access into an environment, granting themselves privilege to cloud and on-premises resources before exfiltrating data, and unleashing ransomware across an environment. Its extensive range of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and ability to pivot quickly and change malicious actions depending on the target organization's response make this threat actor one of the most dangerous financial criminal groups. In this blog post, Microsoft Incident Response provides a response playbook to empower defenders in tackling the challenges posed by Octo Tempest and evicting the threat actor from cloud and on-premises environments: https://msft.it/6044Y2DSK Read our past report on Octo Tempest, documenting their wide array of TTPs: https://msft.it/6045Y2DSz
Octo Tempest: Hybrid identity compromise recovery
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The question of trust in data and calculations is a crucial one, especially for government agencies handling sensitive information. Tanium addresses this by ensuring that the ROI insights are derived directly from the Tanium console and dashboard. This real-time data originates from your own IP or point of origin, enhancing the level of trust and aligning with a zero-trust security approach. #trust #roi #SLED
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My team, Microsoft's Detection and Response Team (DART), Microsoft's customer facing incident response team continues to share our learnings and experiences with Octo Tempest. Secure your organization against hybrid identity threats with key measures like break glass accounts, federation settings updates, and mass password resets. In this blog, Microsoft Incident Response highlights recovery strategies that were developed in response to the threat actor Octo Tempest, and provides vital recommendations to secure your environment in today’s threat landscape. Explore our recovery playbook! #DART #Microsoft #IncidentResponse #resilience https://lnkd.in/gGsqb5Nk
Octo Tempest: Hybrid identity compromise recovery
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"On Jan. 12, Microsoft detected a threat actor who gained access to a small percentage of corporate email accounts, exfiltrated emails and attached documents of high-value targets, including those of senior leadership, cybersecurity and legal teams, along with other internal employee identities. Based on the details provided by Microsoft at the time of this writing, it appears the initial objective of the attack was to acquire information. Once inside target email accounts, Cozy Bear searched for specific information about, well, Cozy Bear. The group likely wanted to better understand its adversary (the intelligence teams gathering information on it) and discover the countermeasures intended to lure and stop it. Examples of what the threat actor might be interested in include indicators of compromise (IoC), exposed cloud infrastructure used by the attacker, IP ranges and known tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)." https://lnkd.in/gqtHJehn
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Webinar: An Identity Security-first Approach to the Evolving Threat Landscape Watch CyberArk and Advisories - Accenture, Deloitte and PwC as they share their expertise and insights on taking a security-first approach with Identity Security. In this webinar, they share expert advice on: -Top challenges to addressing Identity Security -Critical elements for securing identities in the cloud and the supply chain -Actions you can take to mitigate identity-related threats https://lnkd.in/g-_6bR42
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🤔 THURSDAY THOUGHTS: Ever wondered about the security of air-gapped networks? An air gap is only the beginning – real security requires more. Discover how Axiad, in collaboration with Microsoft, is addressing this challenge head-on! READ BLOG: https://hubs.li/Q020QkFk0
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In the realm of cybersecurity, air-gapped networks have long been seen as the pinnacle of protection. However, a closer look reveals that these isolated environments face unique challenges. #cybersecurity #CISA #phishing #airgap #Federal #authentication #IAM
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Threat actors have their heads in the cloud lately: 85% of last week’s SOC incidents came from Google Workspace or O365. Out of those incidents, the Blackpoint SOC saved: -- An Industrial partner from a grab bag of malicious executables, including PCHunter64.exe running from “C:\PerfLogs” -- A Government partner from unauthorized cryptominers… and potential “access as a service” resales on the dark web -- A Healthcare partner from a RAT trying control access to the infected endpoint Look over the complete incident analysis from the APG, and see how you can protect yourself and your customers’ environments from similar intrusions. #SeeClearly #InfoSec #ThreatIntelligence #SOCSaves https://hubs.ly/Q02vc_Jq0
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I wrote a post about the SEC complaint against SolarWinds. To be honest, I was really surprised by the complaint. Not that mistakes were not made, but holding executives responsible is a tricky precedent to start. It definitely puts CISOs, who are already working against a lot of culture and lack of resources, on notice. It might also give them what they need to justify appropriate security resources for the risks they face. I guess it will play out over a long time. I think there are good and bad things about the detail of the complaint, but it seems to be testing the limits for sure. To me it highlights several systemic issues with security and disclosure for public companies. First, there is no objective standard we can apply universally and therefore any outcome will be subjective. Second, it seems to put companies in a position where they won't want to disclose but they will need to find the right things to disclose in the right way to stay on investors good side. I'm really not sure how that will work. If I were defending SolarWinds I would point to the arbitrary standards for disclosure and to the fact that despite gaps, tactical improvements probably have been made. No company can fix all the things they know about. Where is the line? Can we really just point to something after it has been exposed and say that is punishable when we can't hand them a list of what could be punished in the first place? https://lnkd.in/dGPffRNv #cisolife #ciso #security #fraud
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