SAS 2019: 4 Stuxnet-Related APTs Form Gossip Girl, an ‘Apex Threat Actor’

Flowershop, Equation, Flame and Duqu appear to have a hand in the different phases of Stuxnet development, all working as part of an operation active as early as 2006. Continue reading SAS 2019: 4 Stuxnet-Related APTs Form Gossip Girl, an ‘Apex Threat Actor’

Chronicle creates Backstory, a cloud service for analyzing enterprises’ security data

Chronicle, the cybersecurity subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s parent company), has announced Backstory, a cloud platform that can be used by enterprises to sift through their historic security data: DNS traffic, netflow, endpoint logs, proxy logs… Continue reading Chronicle creates Backstory, a cloud service for analyzing enterprises’ security data

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google’s one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpo… Continue reading Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Alphabet’s Chronicle banks on big data with new threat analysis platform

Chronicle, the cybersecurity firm stood up last year by Google parent company Alphabet, entered the threat analysis business Monday when it announced a cloud-based platform that compares reams of network data with malicious cyber activity. In doing so, Chronicle is betting that Google’s access to immense amounts of stored data will help security professionals make better sense of information in what is already a crowded threat-intelligence market. The tool, called Backstory, allows companies to upload their internal security data and then analyze it, offering a repository stretching back years. It constantly compares that historical corporate ledger with new threat data to inform companies of any “historical access” to malicious domains or files, according to Chronicle. Hackers can linger on organizations’ networks for months, if not longer, and Backstory aims to use Google’s search capabilities to find breaches that slipped through the cracks. “Backstory was designed for a world where companies generate massive amounts […]

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New infosec products of the week​: September 28, 2018

Chronicle announces VirusTotal Enterprise with greater search and analysis capabilities Chronicle, the cybersecurity subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced VirusTotal Enterprise, which is aimed at helping enterprises protect thei… Continue reading New infosec products of the week​: September 28, 2018

Chronicle announces VirusTotal Enterprise with greater search and analysis capabilities

Chronicle, the cybersecurity subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced VirusTotal Enterprise, which is aimed at helping enterprises protect their own networks. About VirusTotal Enterprise VirusTotal is a well-known website/onl… Continue reading Chronicle announces VirusTotal Enterprise with greater search and analysis capabilities

Chronicle: A Meteor Aimed At Planet Threat Intel?

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said today it is in the process of rolling out a new service designed to help companies more quickly make sense of and act on the mountains of threat data produced each day by cybersecurity tools.
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Alphabet launches Chronicle, a new cybersecurity company

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced a new cybersecurity company named Chronicle on Wednesday. The company comes with massive promises to change the cybersecurity landscape but precious few details on how it will actually be done. Emerging from Alphabet’s X “moonshot” research and development lab, Chronicle bursts onto the scene with a mountain of hype and resources that only a company like Google can provide. The new firm aims to do better at finding important patterns in oceans of data, shrinking the time to discover attacks and ultimately turn the tide against vulnerabilities and hackers. Chronicle comes in two parts, according to a new blog post by Stephen Gillett, Chronicle’s new leader and the former chief operating officer at Symantec. Chronicle is an intelligence and analytics platform coupled with VirusTotal, the popular malware intelligence platform Google bought in 2012. The company’s goal is to beat the cybersecurity industry’s much-talked-about talent shortage by doing things bigger and better than any […]

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