UPDATE (June 17): We have released our Snowflake threat hunting guide, which contains guidance and queries for detecting abnormal and malicious activity across Snowflake customer database instances. Default retention policies for the relevant views enable threat
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Phishing for Gold: Cyber Threats Facing the 2024 Paris Olympics
Written by: Michelle Cantos, Jamie Collier Executive Summary Mandiant assesses with high confidence that the Paris Olympics faces an elevated risk of cyber threat activity, including cyber espionage, disruptive and destructive operations, financially-motivated activity, hacktivism,
Continue ReadingRansomware Rebounds: Extortion Threat Surges in 2023, Attackers Rely on Publicly Available and Legitimate Tools
Written by: Bavi Sadayappan, Zach Riddle, Jordan Nuce, Joshua Shilko, Jeremy Kennelly A version of this blog post was published to the Mandiant Advantage portal on April 18, 2024. Executive Summary In 2023, Mandiant observed
Continue ReadingIOC Extinction? China-Nexus Cyber Espionage Actors Use ORB Networks to Raise Cost on Defenders
Written by: Michael Raggi Mandiant Intelligence is tracking a growing trend among China-nexus cyber espionage operations where advanced persistent threat (APT) actors utilize proxy networks known as “ORB networks” (operational relay box networks) to gain
Continue ReadingHoles in Your Bitbucket: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Leaking Secrets
Written by: Mark Swindle While investigating recent exposures of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, Mandiant identified a scenario in which client-specific secrets have been leaked from Atlassian's code repository tool, Bitbucket, and leveraged by threat
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