Tag: juan andres guerrero-saade
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VB2019 paper: King of the hill: nation-state counterintelligence for victim deconfliction
Past Virus Bulletin conference papers (co-)written by Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, such as those on fourth-party collection or false flags , have become legendary and continue to be cited across the industry. At VB2019 in London, ‘JAGS’ was back. Now Research Tsar at Chronicle , he looked at an interesting use case for threat intelligence: nation-state…
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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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VB2018 paper: Draw me like one of your French APTs – expanding our descriptive palette for cyber threat actors
IT security research stumbled into the world of nation-state intelligence operations more or less by accident. In a now classic VB2015 paper , Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade discussed this shift from security research to intelligence brokerage and what this implied. Juan Andres has been a regular speaker at the VB conference since then, and has given…
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VB2018 paper: Draw me like one of your French APTs – expanding our descriptive palette for cyber threat actors
IT security research stumbled into the world of nation-state intelligence operations more or less by accident. In a now classic VB2015 paper , Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade discussed this shift from security research to intelligence brokerage and what this implied. Juan Andres has been a regular speaker at the VB conference since then, and has given…
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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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We need to continue the debate on the ethics and perils of publishing security research
At VB2015 in Prague, Juan Andrés Guerro-Saade, then of Kaspersky Lab , presented an important paper on the transformation of security researchers into intelligence brokers and how this changes the ethics concerning security research. The debate on how security companies in general and anti-virus products in particular should treat malware written for ‘good’ purposes has…
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We need to continue the debate on the ethics and perils of publishing security research
At VB2015 in Prague, Juan Andrés Guerro-Saade, then of Kaspersky Lab , presented an important paper on the transformation of security researchers into intelligence brokers and how this changes the ethics concerning security research. The debate on how security companies in general and anti-virus products in particular should treat malware written for ‘good’ purposes has…
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Throwback Thursday: Ten memorable Virus Bulletin conference presentations – part 2
With an excellent conference programme featuring some of the top experts in the IT security industry and covering some of the most important topics, we have much to look forward to when it comes to VB2017 , the 27th Virus Bulletin conference. But we also often look back at past conference presentations, not just because…