Tag: attribution
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VB2018 paper: Who wasn’t responsible for Olympic Destroyer?
It may be hard to believe, but it was only eight months ago that the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games were targeted by malware named Olympic Destroyer. Though not the first time the Olympic Games had been the target of malware, Olympic Destroyer, as its name suggests, did appear to be destructive in nature. Cisco…
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VB2018 paper: Who wasn’t responsible for Olympic Destroyer?
It may be hard to believe, but it was only eight months ago that the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games were targeted by malware named Olympic Destroyer. Though not the first time the Olympic Games had been the target of malware, Olympic Destroyer, as its name suggests, did appear to be destructive in nature. Cisco…
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‘North Korea’ a hot subject among VB2018 talks
A few years ago, I somehow got involved in the discussion of a run-of-the-mill malicious spam campaign and ended up speaking to a journalist from the Daily Telegraph . “Is it true that North Korea may be behind this campaign?”, the journalist asked me – I had a hard time trying to keep a straight…
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‘North Korea’ a hot subject among VB2018 talks
A few years ago, I somehow got involved in the discussion of a run-of-the-mill malicious spam campaign and ended up speaking to a journalist from the Daily Telegraph . “Is it true that North Korea may be behind this campaign?”, the journalist asked me – I had a hard time trying to keep a straight…
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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: 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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Throwback Thursday: Virus Writer and Distributors ‘Attributable Viruses’
This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 1990, when VB looked at virus origins and some of the rare cases of attributable viruses. This week saw the confession of a former teenage virus writer: the author of the Leprosy and Leprosy.B viruses, which afflicted computer users in the early 90s, confessed all…