Malibot info stealer is no coin miner. "Hermit" spyware. Fabricated evidence in Indian computers. FBI takes down botnet. Assange extradition update. Putting the Service into service learning.
Malibot is an info stealer masquerading as a coin miner. "Hermit" spyware is being used by nation-state security services. Fabricated evidence is planted in Indian computers. The US takes down a crimi...
17 Kesä 202230min
Interpol scores against BEC, online fraud, and money laundering. Developments in C2C markets. Versioning vulnerability. Cyber war and cyber escalation.
Interpol coordinates international enforcement action against scammers. A new version of IceXLoader is observed. Exploiting versioning limits to render files inaccessible. Reflections on the first lar...
16 Kesä 202227min
Hertzbleed, a troublesome feature of processors. Cyberespionage and hybrid war. Patch Tuesday notes. Software bills of materials. Wannabe cybercrooks and criminal publicity stunts.
The Hertzbleed side-channel issue affects Intel and AMD processors. An Iranian spearphishing campaign prospected former Israeli officials. Patch Tuesday notes. A look at software bills of materials. R...
15 Kesä 202228min
Dealing with Follina. SeaFlower steals cryptocurrencies. Cyber phases of a hybrid war, with some skeptical notes on Anonymous. And the war’s effect on the underworld.
Dealing with the GRU's exploitation of the Follina vulnerabilities. SeaFlower uses stolen seed phrases to rifle cryptocurrency wallets. Ukraine moves sensitive data abroad. Anonymous claims to have ha...
14 Kesä 202225min
A new RAT from Beijing. Muslim hacktivism in India. Ukraine reports a GRU spam campaign against media outlets. A Moscow court fines Wikimedia. And that UK cyber disaster was just a promo.
A Chinese APT deploys a new cyberespionage tool. Hacktivism roils India after a politician's remarks about the Prophet. Ukraine reports a "massive" spam campaign against the country's media organizati...
13 Kesä 202226min
Deepen Desai: A doctor in computer viruses. [CISO] [Career Notes]
Deepen Desai, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Zscaler, shares his story as a doctor that treats computer viruses. He describes how he got into the security field and his work with Zscaler...
12 Kesä 20228min
New developments in the WSL attack. [Research Saturday]
Danny Adamitis from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, joins Dave to discuss new developments in the WSL attack surface. Since September 2021, Black Lotus Labs have been monitoring malware repositories as a pa...
11 Kesä 202222min
The cautionary example of a hybrid war. SentinelOne finds a Chinese APT operating quietly since 2012. A hardware vulnerability in Apple M1 chips. And go, Tigers.
Looking at Russia's hybrid war as a cautionary example. Russia warns, again, that it will meet cyberattacks with appropriate retaliation. (China says "us too.") NSA and FBI warn of nation-state cyber ...
10 Kesä 202231min
