Over the last weeks we’ve been running a new internal artifact-scanning service across several large ecosystems. It’s still growing feature-wise, LLM scoring and a few other bits are being added, but the core pipeline is already pulling huge amounts of stuff every...
As someone who has spent many years researching attacks and supporting incident response teams, I’ve seen one question come up again and again: How do we return to a verified clean state after an intrusion? In every ransomware case, in every targeted espionage...
Many of our customers value the broad module support and high detection coverage found in our professional-grade products. However, we are also committed to continuously improving our free tools, ensuring that the gap in detection capabilities does not grow too wide....
The recently exploited SharePoint vulnerability chain known as ToolShell (CVE-2025-53770) has shown once again that patching alone isn't enough. Attackers gained unauthenticated remote access to vulnerable on-premises SharePoint servers, planted web shells, and...
First detected in September 2024 and initially targeting the United States and Canada, the Nitrogen ransomware group has since expanded its reach into parts of Africa and Europe. Many of their victims remain absent from Nitrogen’s public ransomware blog and likely...
In recent days, major security companies such as ReliaQuest and Onapsis have disclosed the active exploitation of CVE-2025-31324, a critical vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer component. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to upload...
We're excited to announce a significant update to THOR, our comprehensive digital forensic scanner, which now extends multi-threading capabilities to both the standard version and THOR Lite. Previously exclusive to our forensic lab license holders, this enhancement...
Discover how to safeguard your business from the ongoing Microsoft Exchange vulnerability crisis highlighted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). Learn about critical warnings, the importance of patching, and how automated compromise assessments with THOR Cloud Lite can fortify your cybersecurity strategy.
More and more often, adversaries target and exploit Internet-facing appliances or devices with exotic or restricted operating systems. Users ask if there is a way to run a compromise assessment scan on these systems with the YARA rules used in THOR. Following up on...
We're glad to announce a new feature that allows users to enrich events generated by THOR with information from Virustotal. The feature is available in the full THOR v10.7 TechPreview and THOR Lite. It can be used in any scan mode: live endpoint scanning, lab...
We have received reports from customers that were approached by service providers that offered compromise assessments with our scanner THOR. Subsequently, it appeared, however, that these providers used THOR Lite in their engagements and, when asked about this, argued...
We are proud to announce a groundbreaking new scan mode named "Thunderstorm" that we've integrated into preview builds of the upcoming THOR version 10.6. This mode of operation turns THOR into a RESTful web service that is able to process thousands of samples per...
Why Integrate THOR into Microsoft Defender ATP While Microsoft Defender ATP fully plays off its strength in detecting live attacks, suspicious process starts and network connections, THOR shines as a live forensic scanner that scans the local filesystem, registry,...
People often tell us that EDR product X already does IOC scanning and that they don’t have to check for these indicators a second time using our scanners. Especially when it comes to network wide sweeps for traces of activity due to an ongoing incident I recommend...
Refactored Handle Detection We have completely refactored THOR's malicious Handle detection. We now allow the use of regular expressions and combined all types in a single signature file named "malicious-handles.dat". Users can provide custom indicators by placing a...