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VB2018 paper: Where have all the good hires gone?
We often hear about the cybersecurity skills gap being ” an issue for all “, creating ” recuitment chaos “, an ” industry crisis “, and indeed the difficulties organizations encounter in hiring information security professionals have been described as one of the biggest challenges IT leaders face today. There is no doubt that such…
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Preview: Nullcon 2019
Does it matter that the number of new malware samples keeps growing? What does the meteoric rise in cryptocurrency malware indicate? Why is there barely any malware on iOS ? Which groups should be particularly worried about malware? I will attempt to answer these and other questions in a talk entitled “The State of Malware…
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Preview: Nullcon 2019
Does it matter that the number of new malware samples keeps growing? What does the meteoric rise in cryptocurrency malware indicate? Why is there barely any malware on iOS ? Which groups should be particularly worried about malware? I will attempt to answer these and other questions in a talk entitled “The State of Malware…
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From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…
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From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…
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VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!
The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…
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VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!
The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…
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Threat intelligence teams should consider recruiting journalists
These aren’t easy times for journalists. Last week’s laying off of dozens of journalists at BuzzFeed , including its full national security desk, contributed to more than 1,000 media jobs being lost last week . The reasons for these lay-offs are complicated and beyond the topic of this blog. What piqued my interest, though, was…
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Threat intelligence teams should consider recruiting journalists
These aren’t easy times for journalists. Last week’s laying off of dozens of journalists at BuzzFeed , including its full national security desk, contributed to more than 1,000 media jobs being lost last week . The reasons for these lay-offs are complicated and beyond the topic of this blog. What piqued my interest, though, was…
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From HSBC to product descriptions: the malicious emails bypassing your filters
Over a one-week period earlier this month, the average email with a malicious attachment was almost three times as likely to bypass email security products than a spam email without such an attachment. When it came to phishing emails ─ a category in which we include emails that link to malware ─ the situation was…
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