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  • VB2018 paper: Where have all the good hires gone?

    We often hear about the cybersecurity skills gap being ” an issue for all “, creating ” recuitment chaos “, an ” industry crisis “, and indeed the difficulties organizations encounter in hiring information security professionals have been described as one of the biggest challenges IT leaders face today. There is no doubt that such…

  • VB2018 paper: Where have all the good hires gone?

    We often hear about the cybersecurity skills gap being ” an issue for all “, creating ” recuitment chaos “, an ” industry crisis “, and indeed the difficulties organizations encounter in hiring information security professionals have been described as one of the biggest challenges IT leaders face today. There is no doubt that such…

  • VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!

    The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…

  • VB2018 paper: Little Brother is watching – we know all your secrets!

    The use of mobile spyware to spy on (ex-)partners is an underreported problem, despite the prevalence of such apps and their use in cases of domestic violence. At VB2017 in Madrid, security journalist Joseph Cox spoke about this problem. Closely linked to these apps are ‘mutual-awareness tracking apps’, which allow people to track the location…

  • VB2018 paper: Inside Formbook infostealer

    The Formbook information-stealing trojan has been spread by a number of recent spam campaigns . The malware was advertised in hacking forums as long ago as January 2016, but wasn’t written about until an Arbor Networks blog post in September 2017. The malware is a ‘form-grabber’, which means it intercepts data entered in website forms,…

  • VB2018 paper: Inside Formbook infostealer

    The Formbook information-stealing trojan has been spread by a number of recent spam campaigns . The malware was advertised in hacking forums as long ago as January 2016, but wasn’t written about until an Arbor Networks blog post in September 2017. The malware is a ‘form-grabber’, which means it intercepts data entered in website forms,…

  • VB2018 paper: From Hacking Team to hacked team to…?

    It is good practice not to mock or laugh at hacking victims. But when the victim is a company that itself is in the business of hacking and has a habit of selling its products and services to governments with dubious human rights records, few could help but smile at the irony. This was the…

  • VB2018 paper: From Hacking Team to hacked team to…?

    It is good practice not to mock or laugh at hacking victims. But when the victim is a company that itself is in the business of hacking and has a habit of selling its products and services to governments with dubious human rights records, few could help but smile at the irony. This was the…

  • VB2018 paper: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library

    Though still relatively new (the first VB conference paper on Android malware was presented in 2011), malware targeting the Android mobile operating system has evolved quickly, in terms of both quantity and quality. Many of the characteristics of desktop malware are now also seen in Android malware – for example, the use of anti-analysis techniques, and…

  • VB2018 paper: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library

    Though still relatively new (the first VB conference paper on Android malware was presented in 2011), malware targeting the Android mobile operating system has evolved quickly, in terms of both quantity and quality. Many of the characteristics of desktop malware are now also seen in Android malware – for example, the use of anti-analysis techniques, and…