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  • VB2019 video: Discretion in APT: recent APT attack on crypto exchange employees

    In June, employees at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase were targeted by emails linking to a website that used two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser to deliver macOS malware. The malware, dubbed ‘NetWire’, had previously been known but the exploit allowed it to bypass built-in protections against it. The NetWire sample was analysed by regular VB…

  • VB2018 paper: Office bugs on the rise

    A large portion of today’s malware infections use malicious Office documents as a first-stage payload. Typically, the user is tricked into enabling macros or disabling some security protection, after which the next-stage payload is downloaded and executed. However, a different kind of Office malware targets outdated versions of Microsoft Office , which continue to be…

  • VB2018 paper: Office bugs on the rise

    A large portion of today’s malware infections use malicious Office documents as a first-stage payload. Typically, the user is tricked into enabling macros or disabling some security protection, after which the next-stage payload is downloaded and executed. However, a different kind of Office malware targets outdated versions of Microsoft Office , which continue to be…

  • VB2018 video: The Big Bang Theory by APT-C-23

    The APT-C-23 group, which targets users in the Middle East and in particular in the State of Palestine, was named and first reported on by 360 in a Chinese language blog post in early 2013. Its campaigns have since been written about by many security vendors, including Palo Alto and Cisco Talos . Check Point…

  • VB2018 video: The Big Bang Theory by APT-C-23

    The APT-C-23 group, which targets users in the Middle East and in particular in the State of Palestine, was named and first reported on by 360 in a Chinese language blog post in early 2013. Its campaigns have since been written about by many security vendors, including Palo Alto and Cisco Talos . Check Point…

  • VB2018 video: Foreverdays: tracking and mitigating threats targeting civil society orgs

    Israel’s NSO Group is in hot water following a Haaretz report that revealed that the company negotiated with the Saudi government on the sale of its spyware, leading the local branch of Amnesty International to call for the firm’s export licence to be revoked. The list of targets of the group’s Pegasus spyware makes for…

  • VB2018 video: Foreverdays: tracking and mitigating threats targeting civil society orgs

    Israel’s NSO Group is in hot water following a Haaretz report that revealed that the company negotiated with the Saudi government on the sale of its spyware, leading the local branch of Amnesty International to call for the firm’s export licence to be revoked. The list of targets of the group’s Pegasus spyware makes for…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • VB2017 paper: Android reverse engineering tools: not the usual suspects

    Within a few years, Android malware has grown from a relatively small threat – the first VB conference talk on Android , in 2011, mentioned fewer than 100 malware families – to a huge problem involving more than three million new malware samples a year. The subject has been a regular one on the VB conference programme,…