Adversary Emulation
July 31, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by the North Korean state-sponsored adversary Andariel during Operation Blacksmith which affected manufacturing, agricultural and physical security companies in multiple regions.
July 26, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-207A) published on July 25, 2024, that highlights cyber espionage activity associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) 3rd Bureau based in Pyongyang and Sinuiju.
July 25, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by the Cactus ransomware since the beginning of its activities in March 2023. Cactus has targeted a wide variety of organizations since its inception and has breached more than 140 entities as of July 2024.
July 15, 2024
AttackIQ has released two new assessment templates in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-193A) published on July 11, 2024, that disseminates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), mitigation and detection methods associated with SILENTSHIELD red team assessment carried out by CISA against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization.
July 11, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by the extortionist ransomware Nefilim during activities against multiple organizations, primarily based in North or South America, distributed in the financial, manufacturing, or transportation industries since its emergence in March 2020.
July 3, 2024
AttackIQ has released two new attack graphs that emulate the behaviors exhibited by the highly sophisticated Russian adversary Sandworm during various destructive activities against targets in Ukraine and other countries in the region shortly before the launch of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
June 20, 2024
AttackIQ has released three new attack graphs that seek to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with and exhibited by the stealthy and notorious Winnti Group during its activities in 2021 and 2022.
June 5, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-060A) published on February 29, 2024, which disseminates known Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with the Phobos Ransomware variants observed as recently as February 2024.
May 24, 2024
AttackIQ has released two new attack graphs that seek to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with and exhibited by the open-source Remote Access Trojan AsyncRAT during its activities in 2023.
May 17, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-131A) which disseminates known Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated to Black Basta ransomware, a ransomware variant whose operators have encrypted and stolen data from at least 12 out of 16 critical infrastructure sectors, including the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector.
April 22, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-109A) which disseminates known Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated to Akira ransomware, identified through FBI investigations and trusted third party reporting as recently as February 2024.
April 16, 2024
AttackIQ has released four new attack graphs that seek to emulate the behaviors exhibited by the politically motivated Vietnamese adversary known as OceanLotus during its most recent and prevalent activities.
March 8, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the recent wave of zero-day vulnerability exploits affecting ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect software. This assessment template comprises the various Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) exhibited by several adversaries observed exploiting these vulnerabilities to deploy different families of Ransomware.
March 7, 2024
AttackIQ has released an update to the BlackCat ransomware emulation in response to the recent revision of the CISA Advisory (AA23-353A) which disseminates Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) identified through FBI investigations as recently as February 2024.
March 6, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template that emulates the various Post-Compromise Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the politically motivated Russian adversary Sandworm.
March 4, 2024
In response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-060B) that disseminates observed threat actor activities, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and mitigations associated with ongoing incident response activities in connection with the recent Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure Gateway vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887 and CVE-2024-21893, AttackIQ recommends that customers take the following testing actions in alignment with this recently observed activity.
March 1, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-060A) which disseminates known Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with the Phobos Ransomware variants observed as recently as February 2024.
February 27, 2024
AttackIQ recommends that customers take the following testing actions in alignment to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-057A) which details recent Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) exhibited by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) adversary known as APT29 during activities in which it sought to gain initial access to the cloud infrastructure of government entities and corporations.
February 14, 2024
AttackIQ has released three new attack graphs that seek to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with and exhibited by the infamous loader known as DarkGate during its activities in 2023.
February 9, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-038A) which assesses that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actors are seeking to pre-position themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States.
February 7, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the recent wave of zero-day vulnerability exploits targeting various appliances produced by software company Ivanti.
This assessment template emulates the different Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) exhibited by the UNC5221 adversary after successful exploitation of CVE-2023-46805 (authentication bypass) and CVE-2024-21887 (command injection).
January 19, 2024
AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-016A) which disseminates known Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with threat actors deploying Androxgh0st malware.
December 29, 2023
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph in response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA23-353A) which disseminates Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the ALPHV BlackCat Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) identified through FBI investigations as recently as December 6, 2023.
December 22, 2023
In response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA23-349A) that disseminates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), mitigation and detection methods associated with a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) carried out by CISA as requested by a Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector organization, AttackIQ recommends that customers take the following testing actions in alignment with the RVA.






















