Tag: opsec
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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 GarcĂa, Maria Jose Erquiaga and Anna…
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VB2014 paper: OPSEC for security researchers
Vicente Diaz teaches researchers the basics of OPSEC. Since the close of the VB2014 conference in Seattle in October, we have been sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘OPSEC for security researchers’ by Kaspersky researchers Vicente Diaz and Dani Creus. As long as you perform…