Tag: conference paper
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VB2019 paper: We need to talk – opening a discussion about ethics in infosec
If infosec was ever a subject with little practical impact, it certainly isn’t today: infosec headlines feature in the mainstream media almost every day. This means that those working in the field are faced with ethical dilemmas that are impossible to avoid ─ even if you still want to consider it a mostly technical field.…
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VB2019 papers: Emotet and Ryuk
Targeted ransomware has become one of the biggest and most damaging cybercrime trends in recent years. ‘Targeted’ is a bit of a misnomer though: the operators of the ransomware rarely choose the victim organisations. Instead, they have the organisations ‘chosen’ through an infection with another piece of malware that is then used as a foothold…
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VB2019 paper: Geost botnet. The story of the discovery of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error
OpSec mistakes are what lead to many malware discoveries, but in the case of the Geost Android botnet the mistake was a really interesting one: its operators were using another botnet, HtBot, to manage infected devices, not realising that researchers were analysing some HtBot-infected hosts. This led researchers Sebastian García, Maria Jose Erquiaga and Anna…
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The VB2019 call for papers is about … papers
The Call for Papers for VB2019, the 29th Virus Bulletin Conference (London, 2-4 October) is open until Sunday 17 March. When we say “call for papers” we really put the emphasis on papers. That is, we’re not asking you to submit more than an abstract right now, but if your abstract is selected for the…
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The VB2019 call for papers is about … papers
The Call for Papers for VB2019, the 29th Virus Bulletin Conference (London, 2-4 October) is open until Sunday 17 March. When we say “call for papers” we really put the emphasis on papers. That is, we’re not asking you to submit more than an abstract right now, but if your abstract is selected for the…
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Throwback Thursday: Giving the EICAR test file some teeth
When in our VB100 test lab we set up an anti-virus product, one of the first things we do is to see if it works by making it scan the EICAR test file. This 68-byte file is supposed to be detected by any anti-virus product but does not perform any malicious activities and thus can…
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Throwback Thursday: Giving the EICAR test file some teeth
When in our VB100 test lab we set up an anti-virus product, one of the first things we do is to see if it works by making it scan the EICAR test file. This 68-byte file is supposed to be detected by any anti-virus product but does not perform any malicious activities and thus can…