Article form April 2017 Everyone in “cyber” and “security” is now talking about how they could have stopped WannaCry and ransomware in general. Depending on which companies posts, updates and documents you read to this specific type of ransomware the reality is that MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) discovered and (@MalwareTechBlog) stopped WannaCry by accident (btw,awesome work guys!). After… Weiterlesen
Lessons Learned? from this week’s Ransomware
A few weeks ago we saw information leaked from known sources that no one really knows what their agenda is (disinformation, whistleblowing or a nation-state sponsored disruption campaign). Information was released about toolkits that certain Intelligence Agencies (supposedly in the USA) used to spy on all other countries. Among software there were also exploits in… Weiterlesen
FancyBear / APT38 Shenanigans
Since 2015 when we released our detailed reports along with our partners Soc Prime on BlackEnergy3+, the attacks on Ukraine Elections and the details of KillDisk, etc. The world was still a bit calm and attacks were not as complex as they now are. If you have been following us and me for a while… Weiterlesen
Mirai for the giggles…
In the last few days I stumbled across an interesting site called cloudflarecock.club. After getting a heads up from a fellow security researcher I decided to have a look and see what was in the domain and what it was all about. The Picture below shows an initial scan and keyword term analyzing of the… Weiterlesen
State Of Things – IT Security in PowerLine
First Quarter in 2017 starts off with a bang (Article from Q1 2017) It has been an interesting few months in 2017 and we already have seen some really massive and interesting data breaches out there. Some of the areas that breaches are being seen are more extensively in vBulletin as well as other forum… Weiterlesen
Hacker Defense Network – Powers Activate!
At the heart of this particular attack we “only” saw about 12,000 attacking PCs that infected huge numbers of vulnerable devices and slowly included those into the initial attack in waves. Weiterlesen
Mirai Updates from Partners
Soc Prime Update on HDN’s Mirai info and general info on botnet spreads. Weiterlesen
