DORA forces EU financial organizations to adopt proactive, testable ICT risk management, moving security “left of boom” to detect threats before they materialize using Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA)™. Silent Push maps its IOFA-centric platform to DORA’s five pillars to provide continuous monitoring, incident response support, resilience testing, third-party risk visibility, and shareable threat intelligence. #IndicatorsOfFutureAttack #SilentPush
Keypoints
- DORA requires proactive, comprehensive ICT risk management and testing rather than reactive IOC-based security.
- Silent Push’s IOFA™ model identifies adversary infrastructure during preparation, enabling mitigation before attacks occur.
- The platform offers daily scans, DNS dangling detection, 150+ enrichment parameters, and risk scoring for domains, IPs, and URLs.
- Incident response is accelerated via centralized Total View, Live Scan sandboxing, and 250+ API endpoints for SIEM/SOAR integration.
- Resilience testing is supported with intelligence for TLPT scenarios, DNS footprint mapping, and verification of remediation for vulnerabilities like dangling DNS records.
- Third-party and supply-chain risks are exposed through Shadow IT discovery, monitoring of partner-targeted campaigns, and detection of impersonation and infrastructure laundering.
- High-fidelity IOFA™ feeds and TLP:Amber reports enable structured information sharing and operational automation with external partners and law enforcement.
MITRE Techniques
- [T1590] Gather Victim Network Information – Used to enumerate DNS footprint and subdomains to discover attack surface and wildcard records (“Enumerate all subdomains associated with your apex domain and highlight wildcard subdomain records”).
- [T1046] Network Service Discovery – Daily scans and forcible resolutions across IPv4 and IPv6 to gain visibility of internet-facing infrastructure (“performing daily scans and forcible resolutions across the entire IPv4 and IPv6 range”).
- [T1598] Phishing for Information (Impersonation) – Detecting brand impersonation campaigns and lookalike domains to identify credential-harvesting pages (“detect brand impersonation campaigns where threat actors spoof trusted services (e.g., a fake Okta login page)”).
- [T1588] Obtain Capabilities (Infrastructure Laundering) – Tracking abuse of large cloud providers to obscure operations and scale phishing/scam infrastructure (“expose the hidden risk of infrastructure laundering… abuse large cloud providers (like AWS and Azure) to obscure massively scaled operations”).
- [T1078] Valid Accounts (Supply Chain Compromise) – Monitoring third-party dependencies and campaigns targeting CRM/bulk email providers which can lead to misuse of legitimate services (“tracking campaigns targeting crucial third-party systems, such as CRM and bulk email providers (Mailchimp, SendGrid, etc.)”).
- [T1110] Brute Force (Credential Access Support) – Noted indirectly via detection and protection of impersonation and credential-harvesting pages used in phishing campaigns (“find these threats by searching for lookalike domains and content-based impersonation (matching favicons or HTML titles)”).
- [T1595] Active Scanning – Using web scanner and historical content queries to connect DNS, WHOIS, and web data for building behavioral fingerprints (“Web Scanner enables deep querying across historical and real-time content data based on 150+ parameters”).
Indicators of Compromise
- [Dangling DNS Records] evidence of subdomain takeover risk – example: dangling DNS entries tied to deprecated subdomains, and other instances found via automated dangling DNS queries.
- [Domains] IOFA feed examples – curated domains set up by adversaries pre-attack for proactive blocking (examples withheld; feed contains many domains).
- [IPs] infrastructure indicators – examples surfaced by daily scans and Live Scan snapshots (example IPs not listed; feeds include IPs and ASN diversity metrics).
- [Hashes] proprietary web scan hashes – used to link historical and real-time content (proprietary hashes and 2 more hashes).
- [Service Names / Vendors] third-party provider targets – examples: Mailchimp, SendGrid, Okta used as impersonation or campaign targets.