Tag: kurt baumgartner
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VB2018 video: Shedding skin – Turla’s fresh faces
“Capable, well-resourced, and they go back decades.” The Turla threat group doesn’t make the news as much as some other Russian-speaking APT groups, but it is one of the most advanced and most diverse groups out there. At VB2018 in Montreal, Kurt Baumgartner and Mike Scott from Kaspersky Lab ‘s GReAT detailed the latest malware…
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VB2018 video: Shedding skin – Turla’s fresh faces
“Capable, well-resourced, and they go back decades.” The Turla threat group doesn’t make the news as much as some other Russian-speaking APT groups, but it is one of the most advanced and most diverse groups out there. At VB2018 in Montreal, Kurt Baumgartner and Mike Scott from Kaspersky Lab ‘s GReAT detailed the latest malware…
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VB2016 video: On the StrongPity waterhole attacks targeting Italian and Belgian encryption users
Last week, Microsoft published a paper on two attack groups, dubbed PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that targeted individuals in Europe and that both used the then unknown and unpatched vulnerability CVE-2016-4117 in Abobe Flash Player . However, Microsoft wasn’t the first company to write about the PROMETHIUM group and the Truvasys malware it used. At VB2016 in Denver, Kaspersky…
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VB2016 video: On the StrongPity waterhole attacks targeting Italian and Belgian encryption users
Last week, Microsoft published a paper on two attack groups, dubbed PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that targeted individuals in Europe and that both used the then unknown and unpatched vulnerability CVE-2016-4117 in Abobe Flash Player . However, Microsoft wasn’t the first company to write about the PROMETHIUM group and the Truvasys malware it used. At VB2016 in Denver, Kaspersky…
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VB2016 ‘Last-Minute’ Papers Announced
With a little over three weeks to go until VB2016 , the conference programme is almost complete. We have a great selection of talks on the main programme, half a dozen Small Talks that we hope will lead to interesting discussions among participants, and a closing keynote from Morgan Marquis-Boire , the hacker, security researcher…
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VB2016 ‘Last-Minute’ Papers Announced
With a little over three weeks to go until VB2016 , the conference programme is almost complete. We have a great selection of talks on the main programme, half a dozen Small Talks that we hope will lead to interesting discussions among participants, and a closing keynote from Morgan Marquis-Boire , the hacker, security researcher…
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VB2015 video: TurlaSat: The Fault in our Stars
Kurt Baumgartner talks about Turla’s extraplanetary activities. Despite the hype around the subject, the tools used by most so-called APT groups are surprisingly mundane. But there are exceptions. In September 2015, researchers at Kaspersky Lab published research on the Turla APT group (also known as Uroburos or Snake), which hijacked satellite Internet links for command…