Tag: conference
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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Conference review: AVAR 2017
The first week of December was packed with security conferences, and VB2017 speakers were busy presenting their research at no fewer than four different events: FIRST in Prague, Black Hat Europe in London, Botconf in Montpellier, and AVAR in Beijing. Security researchers were spoilt for choice, and while other members of the VB team headed…
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Conference review: Botconf 2017
Since its first edition in 2013 , the Virus Bulletin team have been big fans of Botconf , the botnet fighting conference held every year in France. This year, Virus Bulletin sent team members Adrian Luca and Ionuț Răileanu to the event, which took place in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier. There appears to have been…
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VB2017 videos on attacks against Ukraine
(In)security is a global problem that affects every country in the world, but in recent years, none has been as badly hit as Ukraine. The most well known malware that affected the country is (Not)Petya, a ransomware/wiper threat that had global impact (it cost shipping firm Maersk alone $300m in lost revenues ), but which…
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VB2017 videos on attacks against Ukraine
(In)security is a global problem that affects every country in the world, but in recent years, none has been as badly hit as Ukraine. The most well known malware that affected the country is (Not)Petya, a ransomware/wiper threat that had global impact (it cost shipping firm Maersk alone $300m in lost revenues ), but which…
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VB2017 paper: Nine circles of Cerber
Earlier this week, we published the video of a VB2017 presentation on the Spora ransomware. Spora is hardly alone in this prominent threat type though, and one of the other major names in the world of ransomware is Cerber, which operates a successful affiliate scheme, making it ‘The McDonald’s of the underworld’. Last year, Check…
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VB2017 paper: Nine circles of Cerber
Earlier this week, we published the video of a VB2017 presentation on the Spora ransomware. Spora is hardly alone in this prominent threat type though, and one of the other major names in the world of ransomware is Cerber, which operates a successful affiliate scheme, making it ‘The McDonald’s of the underworld’. Last year, Check…
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Throwback Thursday: BGP – from route hijacking to RPKI: how vulnerable is the Internet?
Yesterday, a ‘ mysterious event ‘ involving BGP, the Internet’s border gateway protocol, led to the traffic to many popular websites being routed for around six minutes. BGP hijacks – the Internet equivalent of changing traffic direction signs – are not very common but occur more often than one would expect for a technology that is…
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Throwback Thursday: BGP – from route hijacking to RPKI: how vulnerable is the Internet?
Yesterday, a ‘ mysterious event ‘ involving BGP, the Internet’s border gateway protocol, led to the traffic to many popular websites being routed for around six minutes. BGP hijacks – the Internet equivalent of changing traffic direction signs – are not very common but occur more often than one would expect for a technology that is…
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VB2017 video: Spora: the saga continues a.k.a. how to ruin your research in a week
First discovered at the beginning of the year, the Spora ransomware has become one of of the most prominent ransomware families of 2017, especially in Russia, a region it appears to target. Spora exhibited worm-like behaviour months before the appearance of WannaCry, using .LNK files, a technique previously used by other malware. (Spora’s implementation is…