Tag: paper
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VB2016 paper: Wave your false flags! Deception tactics muddying attribution in targeted attacks
Security researchers have a complicated relationship with attribution. On the one hand, for technical analyses, it doesn’t matter whether an attack was performed by a Bear, a Panda or an Eagle, and whether it was Cozy or Fancy. But security research doesn’t exist in a void, and in an era where the overlap with geopolitics…
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Paper: 3ROS exploit framework kit — one more for the infection road
Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal highlight a different side of an exploit kit. Exploit kits are a serious plague on the Internet, made worse by the fact that the online advertisement ecosystem allows cybercriminals to run their malicious code on many websites. The kits are studied extensively by security researchers, who attempt to follow…
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Paper: Shifu — the rise of a self-destructive banking trojan
Thorough analysis of this new kid on the malware block. Times are changing rapidly for banking trojans. Some prominent arrests and at least partially successful takedowns have left space for new criminal entrepreneurs in this malicious, yet highly profitable market. ‘Shifu’ seems to have filled part of this space. First mentioned publicly by IBM in…
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Paper: Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent: part two
Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal study the malware’s behaviour when ran on a physical machine. Last week, we published the first part of the paper ‘Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent’. In it, researchers Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal looked at the design and implementation of the…
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Paper: Prosecting the Citadel botnet – revealing the dominance of the Zeus descendent: part one
Aditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal dissect botnet primarily used for financial fraud. It is unlikely that anyone still thinks that cybercrime is performed by 16-year-old kids who write short pieces of code that wreak havoc all over the world, but if you do still hold that belief, it won’t hurt to take a look…