Tag: IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services

Since the open source release of the PowerShell framework in 2016, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has identified an upward trend in malicious PowerShell use.

The battle stories Francisco Galian heard as a student inspired him to protect multinational networks as a security consultant. He's parachuted in when times get critical for IBM Security customers.

A new campaign involving the Ramnit botnet that infected 100,000 computers over a two-month period may foreshadow an even larger attack, researchers warn.

Even after a successful attack, security teams can still minimize the financial and reputational damage associated with a breach by following the IBM X-Force cyberattack framework.

An attacker who gains access won't necessarily walk away with an organization's proprietary data. Here's how a cyberattack framework can help you subvert an attacker already in a network.

In the external reconnaissance and launch attack phases of the X-Force IRIS cyberattack preparation framework, threat actors look for vulnerabilities and tailor their attacks to exploit them.

The IBM X-Force IRIS cyberattack preparation and execution frameworks aim to help security teams predict threat actors' motives and tactics and communicate security intelligence more clearly.

When it comes to defending an organization against cyberattacks and their aftershocks, the best way to shore up incident response is to practice.

IBM X-Force IRIS combines incident response with threat intelligence to help organizations analyze cybercriminals' behavior and predict future trends.

Further analysis of impacted Petya ransomware victims led our team to conclude that this attack was specifically aimed at organizations within Ukraine.