Part 4: This blog explores the findings from Darktrace’s State of AI Cybersecurity Report on security professionals' understanding of the different types of AI used in security programs. Get the latest insights into the evolving challenges, growing demand for skilled professionals, and the need for integrated security solutions by downloading the full report.

Informational stealers are a variant of malware designed to gather and exfiltrate sensitive information from targeted networks, this can include bank details, privileged user credentials and cryptocurrency wallet information. In late 2023, Darktrace’s Threat Research team investigated another strain on the rise, Jupyter.

In early 2024, the TA577 threat group was observed utilizing a new attack chain to steal NTLM authentication data. Targets received a phishing email containing a ZIP file attachment which facilitated connection to malicious infrastructure, with NTLM hashes ultimately gathered by attackers. Here we detail Darktrace’s detection of this activity across its customer base.

This blog examines the tactics, techniques and procedures associated with the notorious Ransomware-as-a-Service operator Qilin. Darktrace’s Threat Research team investigated several examples of Qilin actors targeting Darktrace customers between 2022 and 2024.

Darktrace continues to innovate with Microsoft in the shared mission to deliver proactive cyber protection tailored to every organization. Joint customers benefit from two distinct, complementary security approaches – combining large scale threat intelligence with enterprise-native security insights – to address the full range of email threats.

Darktrace/Email detected a phishing attack that had originated from LinkedIn, where the attacker impersonated a well known construction company to conduct a credential harvesting attack on the target. Darktrace’s ActiveAI Security Platform played a critical role in investigating the activity and initiating real-time responses that were outside the physical capability of human security teams.

This blog investigates the network-based activity detected by Darktrace in compromises stemming from the exploitation of a vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewall devices, namely CVE-2024-3400.

Vendors are scrambling to compare MTTD metrics laid out in the latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations. But this analysis is reductive, ignoring the fact that in cybersecurity, there are far more metrics that matter.

This blog investigates Medusa ransomware, a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) variant that is known to use living off the land techniques to infect target networks and move towards its ultimate goals, data encryption and exfiltration.

With complex digital and physical systems, that are increasingly interconnected, the expanding attack surface calls for a unified security solution. Explore the challenges, risks, and potential solutions for organizations aiming at securing distribution centers from cyber threats.

This blog examines a network compromise that stemmed from the purchase of leaked credentials from the dark web. Credentials purchased from dark web marketplaces allow unauthorized access to internal systems. Such access can be used to exfiltrate data, disrupt operations, or deploy malware.

Many companies use third-party data management for efficiency, global access, collaboration, and reliability. Find out what those organizations need to know about addressing the security risks and best practices associated with third-party data management.

Ensuring trust, battling ransomware, and detecting novel attacks pose critical challenges in network security. This blog explores these challenges and shows how leveraging AI-driven security solutions helps security teams stay informed and effectively safeguard their network.

This blog delves into Darktrace’s investigation into the exploitation of the Citrix Bleed vulnerability on the network of a customer in late 2023. Darktrace’s Self-Learning AI ensured the customer was well equipped to track the post-compromise activity and identify affected devices.

In July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules concerning cybersecurity incidents and disclosures. This blog describes the new rules and demonstrates how Darktrace can help organizations achieve compliance with these standards.

In recent months, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of attacks using Microsoft Teams as a threat vector. This blog will explore why Teams is becoming such a popular entry point, how built-in and market security offerings fail to address sophisticated Teams threats, and why behavioral AI is the solution to early detection of Teams-based social engineering and account compromise.

In this blog we examine how Darktrace was able to detect and block malicious phishing emails sent via Microsoft Teams that were impersonating an international hotel chain.

This blog explores how Darktrace/Email was able to successfully identify a wave of phishing emails sent from addresses belonging to a major fast-food chain which were leveraged in a coordinated attack. Despite the use of non-English language emails and payloads hidden behind QR codes, Darktrace was able to detect the attack and block the phishing emails in the first instance.

Part 3: This blog discusses the impact of AI on cybersecurity solutions based on data from Darktrace’s State of AI Cybersecurity Report. Get the latest insights into the evolving challenges faced by organizations, the growing demand for skilled professionals, and the need for integrated security solutions by downloading the full report.

This blog focuses on the exploitation of the ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709) and Darktrace’s coverage of affected customer networks in early 2024.

Most email security solutions either assume end-user reporting is of poor quality, so don’t prioritize it, or triage every user-reported email equally without any attempt to improve long-term efficiency. This blog explores how Darktrace aims to improve user reporting from the ground up, reducing the 90% falsely reported phishing and decreasing the load on security teams.

This blog explores how Darktrace’s combined AI approach enabled it to identify and connect an attack that took place over three critical areas of a customer’s digital environment, namely email, SaaS and network.

Using data from Darktrace's End of Year Threat Report 2023 this blog details how cyber attackers are increasingly using cloud-based services including Dropbox and Microsoft 365 to stealthily bypass detection by traditional email security solutions.

This blog examines CACTUS, a relatively new strain of ransomware that first appeared in the threat landscape in March 2023. In November 2023, Darktrace detected CACTUS ransomware on a US customer network and was able to provide full visibility over the attack and its kill chain.

Part 2: This blog discusses the impact of AI on the cyber threat landscape based on data from Darktrace’s State of AI Cybersecurity Report. Get the latest insights into the evolving challenges faced by organizations, the growing demand for skilled professionals, and the need for integrated security solutions.