Jigsaw Security announced today that our commercial sensor now interfaces with MISP directly. Simply add your API key to our FirstWatch sensor and all information entered in MISP is instantly available to FirstWatch for monitoring. What is MISP? MISP is the Malware Information Sharing Platform which is available for free on Github. MISP is a free solution for storing threat intelligence and for sharing information between organizations securely. The automation of threat intel

Late last year we made a decision to expand our public facing sensor infrastructure. These sensors look for activity that is occurring on the Internet and in privately owned data centers to allow us to detect malicious activity and threats that we can then distribute to our customers to protect them from malware and hacking threats. The technology being utilized is based on custom sensors developed by Jigsaw Security including upgraded versions of our commercial FirstWatch se

Jigsaw Security's OSINT-X ingestion platform brings in live Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds quickly and easily. The software has not been configured to pull threat intelligence from vetted sensors that post to social media. This new capability enriches data used to determine what others are seeing. This new update is bringing in over 40 different feeds from other threat intelligence companies so that Jigsaw can see who is seeing what type of attack and how threats are moving

One of the things we have noted is there is a shift away from Anti-Virus products and a move toward better technologies such as network traffic string detection. As we reported earlier this year we are seeing very specific attacks on Anti-Virus technology itself. In fact we have seen some actors targeting the Anti-Virus eco-system by exploiting the fact that Anti-Virus has to run as a privileged process to actually be effective. Because of this hackers are starting to target