Category: blog
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Didn’t come to VB2017? Tell us why!
Last week, hundreds of security researchers from around the world gathered in Madrid for VB2017 , the 27th Virus Bulletin International Conference. Every year, we ask those attending the conference to fill in a survey to help us understand what they liked and what they didn’t like about the event, and to hear their suggestions…
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Montreal will host VB2018
Last week, at the end of the very successful 27th Virus Bulletin conference, we announced the location for VB2018, the 28th Virus Bulletin conference, which will take place 3 to 5 October at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal, which also hosted VB2006 , is the largest city in the…
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Montreal will host VB2018
Last week, at the end of the very successful 27th Virus Bulletin conference, we announced the location for VB2018, the 28th Virus Bulletin conference, which will take place 3 to 5 October at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal, which also hosted VB2006 , is the largest city in the…
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VB2017 preview: Beyond lexical and PDNS (guest blog)
In this special guest blog post, VB2017 Silver sponsor Cisco Umbrella writes about a paper that researchers Dhia Mahjoub and David Rodriguez will present at the conference this Friday. In the past decade, detection of DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) domains has relied primarily on lexical analysis of domain names, tracking of NX (non-resolving) domains, and malware…
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VB2017 preview: Beyond lexical and PDNS (guest blog)
In this special guest blog post, VB2017 Silver sponsor Cisco Umbrella writes about a paper that researchers Dhia Mahjoub and David Rodriguez will present at the conference this Friday. In the past decade, detection of DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) domains has relied primarily on lexical analysis of domain names, tracking of NX (non-resolving) domains, and malware…
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Avast to present technical details of CCleaner hack at VB2017
The recently discovered malicious CCleaner version has become one of the biggest security stories of 2017. It is the story of a mysterious attacker who managed to put a backdoor into millions of PCs around the world, yet who then used this to install a second-stage payload on just a few dozen machines at carefully…
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VB2017 preview: Walking in your enemy’s shadow: when fourth-party collection becomes attribution hell
“We heard you like popping boxes, so we popped your box so we can watch while you watch” Two years ago, Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade of Kaspersky Lab ‘s GReAT team gave a well-received talk on how security researchers had become intelligence brokers. This can be seen in attack attribution, where we’ve moved from innocent comments…
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Avast to present technical details of CCleaner hack at VB2017
The recently discovered malicious CCleaner version has become one of the biggest security stories of 2017. It is the story of a mysterious attacker who managed to put a backdoor into millions of PCs around the world, yet who then used this to install a second-stage payload on just a few dozen machines at carefully…
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VB2017 preview: Walking in your enemy’s shadow: when fourth-party collection becomes attribution hell
“We heard you like popping boxes, so we popped your box so we can watch while you watch” Two years ago, Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade of Kaspersky Lab ‘s GReAT team gave a well-received talk on how security researchers had become intelligence brokers. This can be seen in attack attribution, where we’ve moved from innocent comments…
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VB2017 preview: Offensive malware analysis: dissecting OSX/FruitFly.B via a custom C&C server
Apart from the odd taxi driver loudly making the claim, the idea that “Macs don’t get malware” has become something of the past. Nevertheless, most security researchers focus on Windows (and increasingly Android ) malware, thus making malware that targets macOS still the odd one out. Someone who for years has focused almost exclusively on…