Q2 2024 Threat Landscape Report: Threat Actors Do Their Homework, Ransomware and Cloud Risks Accelerate
by Keith Wojcieszek, Laurie Iacono, George Glass
Utilizing frontline threat intelligence from handling thousands of cyber incidents every year, our team can deliver more visibility against emerging threats and offer actionable steps to minimize risk and protect against operational and reputational damage. Our experts bring their combined experience in the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, Fortune 100 and the National Cyber Forensic Training Alliance (NCFTA) to follow even the most obfuscated or opaque data trails.
Kroll cyber threat intelligence analysts cross-correlate a variety of open source, private feeds and dark web data with frontline data collected from thousands of annual incidents worked on by Kroll experts, filtering out false positives, duplicates and general noise. This unique formula enables timely, meaningful and actionable intelligence that empowers more efficient hunting, improves threat detection, provides domain monitoring, helps in complex litigation, and can preserve organizations’ operations and reputations.
Our analysts can determine the digital footprint of an organization based on intel gathered and analyzed from millions of data sources. We provide detailed insight into an organization’s digital exposure, which allows stakeholders to make better-informed business decisions. This includes:
The Kroll team conducted a cyber security assessment and ran due diligence reports for a retail company that was looking to understand the cyber risks associated with the expansion of its digital footprint in a new market. Kroll helped the company identify region-specific threats, local litigation challenges and regulatory requirements. The insights were then used to inform decision-making, including risk mitigation strategies such as insurance policies.
Unique intelligence powers our rapid detection, response and remediation capabilities during a cybersecurity event. We utilize data from our thousands of incident response engagements to help determine how to best respond. We provide:
A financial institution was targeted in a ransomware attack. Kroll was engaged for digital threat response, where our experts analyzed threat actor downloads, confirmed that the data was unique to the organization and assisted the company in understanding the access the threat actor obtained in their network and the data that was exfiltrated. This intelligence triggered further investigative action and public notification.
Our analysts will mine the dark web to determine clients’ exposure for either due diligence purposes or to assess the extent of compromised information.
We will monitor common social media and chat platforms, including encrypted platforms, for suspicious activity or chatter. This service can be a one-time review or ongoing monitoring for real-time threat alerts.
We will help secure and preserve your organizations brand reputation by monitoring domains and alerting you to activity in order to protect against scams including phishing and social media that can be harmful to your brand.
Our team will examine existing repositories to look for any hidden keys or monitor suspicious activity.
A manufacturing company identified unauthorized access to its systems and engaged Kroll for a forensics investigation. Using dark web monitoring, the Kroll team identified corporate information on an underground cybercriminal forum. This information helped us focus investigative efforts, helped the client understand what data was accessed and provided guidance on how to proceed with client and employee notification.
Utilizing Kroll’s proprietary technology and enhanced hunting model, our threat analysts can rapidly search and pivot on TTPs, IOCs and emerging threat indicators to quickly identify possible threats seen across various environments. Our cyclical hunting model follows six steps:
Through Kroll’s global intelligence intake, our team gathers and analyzes data to determine trends in the market and deeply understand the most popular and common cyber threats in today’s landscape.
Our team aggregates and breaks down data to provide the most helpful insights.
Kroll’s threat intelligence services can provide further insight both before, during or after an incident. Our experts can help assess your exposure through advanced threat monitoring or help determine the scale of exposed data from a breach.
In conjunction with our threat intelligence insights, our analysts deliver actionable findings through in-depth technical analysis of benign and malicious code. We are able to not only identify and monitor for threats but also reverse engineer malware and provide triage analysis of any code-related event in order to enhance our recommendations for investigative next steps. Our Threat Intelligence team is your ultimate partner when it comes to assessing your organization’s exposure.
Threat intelligence can provide important insight into your organization’s exposure or help understand your digital footprint in your industry. Kroll clients can package threat intelligence services with Kroll’s cyber risk retainer, which gives you prioritized access to elite investigators and the flexibility to allocate incident response resources as well as all other cybersecurity solutions offered by Kroll.
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