AttackIQ Blog

    AttackIQ and MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat Informed Defense are “sighting” ATT&CK techniques in the wild. Come and help.

    April 26, 2021
    The goal is greater visibility and effectiveness.
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    DeepSurface Security Advisory: Local Privilege Escalation in Octopus Deploy on Windows (CVE-2021-26556)

    April 13, 2021
    Octopus Deploy is a popular DevOps automation platform that enables teams to more efficiently manage configuration, API keys, and permissions. Octopus Server allows users to self-host this platform, and is installed as a service on the host. This service runs as Local System and is a very impactful target for local privilege escalation exploits.
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    The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How.

    April 9, 2021
    In advance of the new Biden administration cybersecurity executive order, it’s time for the federal government to get proactive about cybersecurity. Deploying a validated zero trust architecture for the U.S. government’s most critical high-value assets is an aggressive but achievable goal.
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    Breach and Attack Simulation, Unlike Shoulder Pads, Mullets, and Parachute Pants, is a Trend That is Here to Stay

    April 6, 2021
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    DeepSurface 2.0 — What’s New, and a Peek at What’s Next

    April 6, 2021
    Our mission is to equip cybersecurity teams with the best predictive vulnerability prioritization platform and allow them to quickly identify and reduce more cybersecurity risk every day. To that end, we’re proud to announce the release of DeepSurface 2.0!
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    DeepSurface Security Advisory: Local Privilege Escalation in Erlang on Windows (CVE-2021-29221)

    April 4, 2021
    Erlang is a popular general-purpose programming language and runtime environment, with support for concurrency commonly found on many distributed systems. When distributed on Windows machines, the Erlang emulator can also be run as a service with the erlsrv.exe command. This seems to be commonly used with popular software, such as CouchDB.
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    A Next Step “On The Road” (to Security Optimization)

    March 23, 2021
    AttackIQ’s new architecture upgrade makes it possible for customers to emulate comprehensive, multi-stage adversary cyberattack campaigns with realism and specificity, at every step in the kill chain. Check it out.
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    AttackIQ Now Supports Atomic Red Team

    March 17, 2021
    AttackIQ has added Atomic Red Team to our assessment library, bolstering our testing capabilities to further improve our customers’ security effectiveness.
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    In partnership with MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, AttackIQ launches new automated adversary emulation plan for menuPass

    February 23, 2021
    After SolarWinds, organizations need visibility into their security program effectiveness against real world threats. Automated adversary emulations can help meet that need. By generating real data about how your security program performs against menuPass, you can see security failures, make data-informed adjustments, and plan smart investments to optimize your security. Check out the new emulation plan from MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense and AttackIQ.
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    Data Obfuscation: An Image Is Worth a Thousand Lines of Malware

    February 16, 2021
    Adversaries love to hide malware in images, a tactic called data obfuscation. To help you solve this problem, at AttackIQ we have built scenarios to test your defensive capabilities’ ability to detect and prevent image-based malware. Read on to learn how it works – and how you can obfuscate data on your own to test your defenses.
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    GAO Finds Gaps in DoD Cyberdefenses, Highlights Importance of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools

    February 8, 2021
    AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform gives an agency a proactive—rather than a reactive—security posture. It enables continuous validation of security controls to definitively establish the effectiveness of key initiatives, to include zero-trust controls that prevent adversaries from moving laterally across a network, as in the case of SolarWinds.
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    AttackIQ’s Automated Threat-Informed Defense Approach is Transforming Cybersecurity

    January 12, 2021
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