The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors. "By publicly sharing this platform, we empower the broader cybersecurity community to orchestrate the use of advanced tools for malware and forensic analysis," added CISA Associate Director for Threat Hunting Jermaine Roebuck. "Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams' capabilities by automating analysis workflows through seamless integration of commercial, open-source, and custom tools," CISA said on Thursday. On Wednesday, CISA released the Eviction Strategies Tool, which helps security teams during the incident response by providing the necessary actions to contain and evict adversaries from compromised networks and devices. Last year, the cyber defense agency also made its "Malware Next-Gen" analysis system publicly available, allowing the public to submit malware samples for analysis by CISA. Thorium was developed in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories as a scalable cybersecurity suite that automates many tasks involved in cyberattack investigations, and can schedule over 1,700 jobs per second and ingest over 10 million files per hour per permission group. One year earlier, CISA started offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities to help protect them from hacker attacks. This free, editable board report deck helps security leaders present risk, impact, and priorities in clear business terms. CISOs know that getting board buy-in starts with a clear, strategic view of how cloud security drives business value.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:46:12 +0000