IBM X-Force Exchange: Strategic and Tactical Uses of Threat Intelligence

What you don’t know about threat intelligence might surprise you.

While you can use threat intelligence feeds as context for enriching alerts and speeding time to action, correlating that intelligence to internal network data can enrich strategic security decisions and speed time to action. IBM X-Force Exchange is a cloud-based, collaborative threat intelligence platform that helps you research the latest global security threats, aggregate actionable intelligence, and collaborate with peers to quickly identify external threats and act on them.

Visit the platform to explore the threat intelligence content, and then register for the free 30-day trial of the IBM X-Force Exchange Commercial API to integrate intelligence into your existing security solutions.

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Hive0051 goes all in with a triple threat

13 min read - As of April 2024, IBM X-Force is tracking new waves of Russian state-sponsored Hive0051 (aka UAC-0010, Gamaredon) activity featuring new iterations of Gamma malware first observed in November 2023. These discoveries follow late October 2023 findings, detailing Hive0051's use of a novel multi-channel method of rapidly rotating C2 infrastructure (DNS Fluxing) to deliver new Gamma malware variants, facilitating more than a thousand infections in a single day. An examination of a sample of the lures associated with the ongoing activity reveals…

Ongoing ITG05 operations leverage evolving malware arsenal in global campaigns

13 min read - As of March 2024, X-Force is tracking multiple ongoing ITG05 phishing campaigns featuring lure documents crafted to imitate authentic documents of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and North and South America. The uncovered lures include a mixture of internal and publicly available documents, as well as possible actor-generated documents associated with finance, critical infrastructure, executive engagements, cyber security, maritime security, healthcare, business, and defense industrial production. Beginning in November 2023, X-Force observed ITG05…

Why federal agencies need a mission-centered cyber response

4 min read - Cybersecurity continues to be a top focus for government agencies with new cybersecurity requirements. Threats in recent years have crossed from the digital world to the physical and even involved critical infrastructure, such as the cyberattack on SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2023 Report, a breach in the public sector, which includes government agencies, is up to $2.6 million from $2.07 million in 2022. Government agencies need to move…

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