GOLDEN CHICKENS: Evolution of the MaaS

Latest Golden Chickens MaaS Tools Updates and Observed Attacks Executive Summary Throughout March and April, QuoIntelligence observed four attacks utilizing various tools from the Golden Chickens (GC) Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) portfolio. We are now declassifying our...

What is TIBER-EU and how can Financial Institutions benefit from it?

Part I of II: Testing the Cyber Resilience of Financial Institutions with TIBER-EU This post is the first part of a two-part blog series in which we will explain the Threat Intelligence-based Ethical Red Teaming (TIBER-EU) framework and how financial institutions can...

The Importance of Geopolitics for Cyber Threat Intelligence

Part I of V: Our Holistic Approach to Cyber Threat Intelligence This post is the first in a series of five short blogposts, in which we will explain why geopolitics is an integral part of our cyber threat intelligence analyses. Each blogpost will outline an aspect of...

WINNTI GROUP: Insights From the Past

Newly uncovered DNS tunnelling technique, and new campaign against South Korean gaming company Executive Summary In January 2020, QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) detected a new Winnti sample uploaded to a public virus scanner from a German location. Following our preliminary...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Response Checklist for CIOs and CISOs

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic on 11 March,[1] as it continues spreading globally. In Europe, the cases of infections reached 61,000, with more than 2,700 deaths by the time of publication.[2] The impact of...