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2019-10-09

VMRay Detector & Analyzer: A Single Pane of Glass for High-Volume Threat Detection and Analysis

According to Forrester, there will be 2 million job vacancies in the cybersecurity sector by 2022. This reality is the impetus for greater efficiency and achieving a significant improvement in the “signal to noise” ratio that security teams are dealing with. Automating malware analysis and detection on a large scale
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2019-10-02

[Risky Business Podcast] 3 Approaches that Evade Static Machine Learning Detection

This week, VMRay CEO & Co-Founder, Carsten Willems was a guest on the latest episode of the Risky Business Podcast. Carsten spoke with host Patrick Gray about VMRay’s supporting role in Endgame and MRG Effitas’ Static Machine Learning Evasion Contest at DEF CON this year. The contest required participants to
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2019-09-17

What’s Next for VMRay: Series B Funding Will Provide a Springboard to Unleash Innovation and Drive Growth

On September 16, VMRay announced it has closed its Series B round of funding in the amount of $10 million (€9 million), led by Digital+ Partners, one of the leading technology growth equity firms in Europe. To mark this milestone, VMRay co-founder Dr. Carsten Willems sat down with Chad Loeven,
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2019-09-16

VMRay Closes $10 Million Series B Round

Digital+ Partners Leads New Funding Round in Growing Automated Malware Analysis & Detection Provider to Combat Latest Advanced Threats and Support Market Expansion Bochum, Germany – VMRay, a provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced that it has closed its Series B round of funding in the
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2019-09-04

MITRE ATT&CK: A Rosetta Stone for the Cyber Security Ecosystem

In July, VMRay released version 3.1 of VMRay Analyzer, our flagship platform for automated malware analysis and detection. Among several major enhancements, 3.1 mapped our existing VMRay Threat Indicators (VTIs) to MITRE ATT&CK, the industry-standard framework and knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, threat groups, and related software and
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2019-08-13

Security Weekly Interview: VMRay CEO Discusses Operationalizing your Malware Sandbox

It was a busy week for the VMRay Team at this year’s Black Hat Conference. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Carsten Willems sat down for an interview with Paul Asadoorian, host of the Security Weekly podcast. Carsten expanded upon his March interview with Security Weekly where he talked about the core
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2019-08-08

How to Automate IOC Generation with MISP & VMRay

In order for SOC Teams to be more effective, they need access to rich sources of threat intelligence in order to gain visibility and insight into potential threats. At VMRay, our goal is to make the sharing of threat data from each analysis easy. An update to our connector for
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2019-08-01

Stepping into the Breach: Improving Security Researchers’ Ability to Dynamically Analyze macOS Malware at Scale

This content covered in the blog is based on my Objective By the Sea talk “Hypervisor-Based Analysis of macOS Malware”. You can access the slides from my presentation here. A Growing Threat and a Dearth of Tools Compared to Windows, macOS accounts for only a small percentage of all malware,
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2019-07-23

Enterprise Security Takes a Big Leap Forward with VMRay Analyzer 3.1

With the latest release of our flagship platform for malware analysis, VMRay Analyzer 3.1, we are enhancing enterprise security in four broad areas: providing greater platform coverage, improved scalability, additional access security, and greater detection efficacy. In Version v3.1 we have: Mapped malicious behavior to the industry-standard MITRE ATT&CK framework,
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2019-07-10

Intelligent Monitoring: Auto-Focus for Malware Analysts

Intelligent Monitoring captures everything that’s relevant and only what’s relevant, so your Security Team can focus on what’s most critical & essential. In explaining what had motivated his team to switch to VMRay Analyzer, a customer told us, “It’s not about getting our analysts started with malware analysis. It’s getting
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2019-07-03

SANS Webcast Recap: Hitting the Silent Alarm on Banking Trojans

In this era of Ransomware attacks and Zero Day attacks, it’s easy to forget about pervasive threats like Banking Trojans which have been around for some time. These same threats have evolved significantly over the past years, constantly presenting new challenges to security teams. In this post—condensed from a SANS
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2019-06-25

Analyzing Ursnif’s Behavior Using a Malware Sandbox

Ursnif is a group of malware families based on the same leaked source code. When fully executed Urnsif has the capability to steal banking and online account credentials. In this blog post, we will analyze the payload of a Ursnif sample and demonstrate how a malware sandbox can expedite the

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2019-05-29

How to Leverage Indicators of Compromise with VMRay & ThreatConnect

Indicators of compromise (IOCs) are essential pieces of information security teams use to improve detection and response times. With VMRay’s Intelligent Monitoring technology, IOCs extracted from an analysis are noise-free and provide relevant data for teams to import into their existing security tools. Our out-of-the-box integration with ThreatConnect allows you
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2019-05-28

Our CEO, Carsten Willems’ Interview on the Risky Business Podcast

“We are really into the tech. It makes our day if we can detect malware that no one else can.” Continuing our run of podcast interviews, our CEO & Co-Founder Carsten Willems recently featured on the Risky Business Podcast. For over a decade Risky Biz has been one of the
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2019-05-15

Delivering More Comprehensive and In-Depth URL Analysis in VMRay Analyzer 3.0

URLs are a ubiquitous infection vector. Embedded in emails, documents, and webpages, they are encountered early and often in the infection cycle. In addition to hosting exploits and delivering malicious files, they also play a major role in concealing threats and attacks by misdirecting analysis tools and security professionals. To
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2019-05-08

Explained: Smart Memory Dumping

In a recent major update of our flagship platform, VMRay Analyzer 3.0, we made dramatic improvements in the system’s memory dumping capabilities. In an automated approach we call smart memory dumping, VMRay Analyzer now triggers more frequent and more relevant memory dumps to capture a comprehensive view of malware characteristics
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2019-04-30

Empowering Email Users with Abuse Mailbox

Email phishing continues to be the most prevalent infection vector confronting enterprise security teams today. And with no end in sight to email-driven cybercrime, VMRay has been enhancing its email integration options, most recently with the introduction of IR Mailbox, an add-on feature to VMRay Analyzer and VMRay Detector. IR
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2019-04-09

Introducing VMRay Detector: High-Precision Threat Detection at Scale

SOC teams are often overwhelmed by the flood of known and suspected malware coming at them from every direction. Web and email gateways, endpoints and other systems all feed into the fire hose of suspicious files sent to the SOC—and all those potential threats need to be vetted ASAP. The
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2019-03-25

SANS Webcast Recap: Dissecting Popular Malware Evasion Techniques

Like a modern Superbug that has grown resistant to conventional antibiotics, malware today has evolved rapidly and become increasingly complex. While much has been written about malware’s ability to evade sandboxes, little has been made of the specific techniques malware authors are employing to evade detection. In this post—condensed from
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2019-03-07

Reducing Incident Response Times with Splunk Adaptive Response

Typical enterprise security architectures involve tools and products from multiple vendors. An unfortunate reality is these tools and products are not designed to work together out-of-the-box. The Splunk Adaptive Response Framework solves this challenge by connecting all of these products through pre-configured actions. Security teams using the VMRay Add-On for
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2019-03-05

VMRay Analyzer 3.0: Raising the Bar for Automated Malware Analysis & Detection

With today’s release of VMRay Analyzer 3.0, we’ve set a new standard of performance and accuracy with our flagship solution for automated malware analysis and detection. With version 3.0 security teams can quickly analyze and detect advanced, zero-day and targeted malware—and initiate incident response—stopping attacks and threats that other technologies
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2019-02-27

How CyberInt Uses VMRay to Stay One-Step Ahead of Threat Actors

Israeli cybersecurity company CyberInt provides Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services using an innovative approach that leverages both inside-out and outside-in visibility into a customer’s infrastructure. We’ve recently partnered with CyberInt to provide their customers with rapid detection at scale for the tens of thousands of malware samples they see
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2019-01-23

Are You Ready for the Next Attack? 5 Tweaks to Your Incident Response Plan

Guest post by Limor Wainstein, Technical Writer & Editor at Agile SEO. IT security professionals have to deal with preventing and managing a variety of network security risks in their daily work, including cybercrime, the compromise of sensitive data, and service outages. The first line of defense is always prevention,
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2019-01-08

Now, Near, Deep: The Power of Multi-Layered Malware Analysis & Detection

For malware authors, an important part of their strategy is to drown target organizations with a fire hose of constantly changing information. SOC teams struggle to keep pace with attackers’ ability to rapidly generate new malware variants, new URLs leading to infected websites, and new C2 (command & control) server
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2018-12-18

SANS Webcast Recap: Infection to Remediation – Exploring the InfoStealer Kill Chain

While InfoStealers are hardly new, some recent developments have made them far more pervasive, more sophisticated, and more challenging to detect. In this post—condensed from a SANS webcast that he participated in— VMRay Product Manager Rohan Viegas along with SANS analyst Jake Williams discuss the mechanics of how InfoStealers work,
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2018-11-29

Analyzing Location-Based Malware with Geo Anonymization

Malware authors regularly create campaigns to target victims in specific countries. Recent examples using location-based malware include two campaigns that delivered banking trojans to customers of financial institutions in Brazil and the Danabot malware campaign that targeted users in Australia and Europe. Such attacks are often meticulously crafted. The phishing
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2018-11-27

6 Best Practices for your Malware Sandbox Proof of Concept

Any time you incorporate a major new component—such as a sandbox platform—into your security ecosystem, it’s important to do a rigorous, side-by-side evaluation of competing products to determine the best choice for your situation. But a proof of concept is about more than detection rates and vendor scores. It’s also
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2018-11-15

SANS Webcast Recap: Dissecting GandCrab Ransomware

GandCrab is one of the most prevalent ransomware families in 2018. In this post—condensed from a SANS webcast that he participated in— VMRay Product Manager Rohan Viegas discusses the fundamental techniques GandCrab uses to encrypt user’s files and basic detection methods that can provide the first line of defense against
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2018-10-16

How Expel Gets Answers, Not Alerts

Using VMRay Analyzer to get a full picture of attacker activity Tyler Fornes, a Senior Security Analyst at Expel, explains how his team uses VMRay Analyzer to quickly analyze suspicious or malicious files that have been identified in a client’s environment. The most significant result: Investigation times can be cut

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2018-10-10

How VMRay Analyzer Powers MSSPs & MDRs

“The information VMRay Analyzer surfaced was exactly what we needed.” A little while ago our team traveled down to Herndon, VA to visit the offices of our partner Expel and hear first hand how they were using our technology for their MSSP offering. Expel’s CTO Matt Peters explained to us
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