Articles by Applied Threat Research Team

By Ed Miles and Justin Warner As a part of detection research, our team routinely hunts for new and unknown malicious network activity. One hunt method we use is to look for uncommon domains exhibiting abnormal URI path signatures, such as very…

by Kristina Savelesky, Ed Miles, Justin Warner FIN8 is a financially-motivated threat group originally identified by FireEye in January of 2016, with capabilities further reported on by Palo Alto Networks’…

By: Ed Miles, Paul Ferguson, Fred Davis, Justin Warner It is easy to look at the threat landscape and be utterly overwhelmed by the amount of work involved with securing…

By: Ed Miles, Paul Ferguson, Fred Davis, Justin Warner The risk posed by novel and high-volume threats is often understated. In reality, high-volume threats that have little regard for stealth have the…

Understanding Emotet trends for robust detection.