Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links

Interesting paper and summary.

They reached that conclusion after creating “benign yet suspicious binaries” and sharing them with 30 security vendors. The binaries included code that allowed the researchers to track how the vendors shared the packages.

That experiment revealed that 67 percent of infosec vendors conduct sandbox analysis of newly discovered malware, but only 17 percent share any threat intelligence they gather with that technique. They also found that many researchers share indicators of compromise, but few share binaries that would let other researchers and defenders develop a better understanding of attacks

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