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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…

  • VB2017 paper: Modern reconnaissance phase on APT – protection layer

    Targeted attack campaigns involve multiple stages, the first of which consists of collecting information about the target: the reconnaissance phase. It’s an essential part of any campaign and one that often exploits that well known weakest link: the human user. At VB2017 in Madrid, Cisco Talos researchers Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer presented a paper…

  • VB2017 paper: Modern reconnaissance phase on APT – protection layer

    Targeted attack campaigns involve multiple stages, the first of which consists of collecting information about the target: the reconnaissance phase. It’s an essential part of any campaign and one that often exploits that well known weakest link: the human user. At VB2017 in Madrid, Cisco Talos researchers Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer presented a paper…

  • VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets

    Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…

  • VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets

    Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…

  • VB2017 paper: Offensive malware analysis: dissecting OSX/FruitFly.B via a custom C&C server

    Few readers of this blog will believe that there aren’t any security issues with Apple ‘s macOS operating system, a point made rather unsubtly by yesterday’s discovery of a flaw that lets anyone log into a computer running macOS High Sierra – as the root user, no less. Those who have been following Patrick Wardle’s…

  • VB2017 paper: Offensive malware analysis: dissecting OSX/FruitFly.B via a custom C&C server

    Few readers of this blog will believe that there aren’t any security issues with Apple ‘s macOS operating system, a point made rather unsubtly by yesterday’s discovery of a flaw that lets anyone log into a computer running macOS High Sierra – as the root user, no less. Those who have been following Patrick Wardle’s…

  • Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf

    Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…

  • Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf

    Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…

  • Throwback Thursday: The beginning of the end(point): where we are now and where we’ll be in five years

    Over the coming weeks and months, we plan to use the Throwback Thursday slot to look back at and publish some great VB conference presentations from our archives. We start this week by publishing the recording of a VB2016 presentation by Adrian Sanabria, then at 451 Research , who gave a thought-provoking talk on the…