Tag: video

  • VB2016 video: Neverquest: Crime as a Service and On the Hunt for the Big Bucks

    Earlier this month, Spanish police officers arrested a Russian national on suspicion of creating the Neverquest banking trojan. Neverquest, also known as Vawtrak, is one of the most prevalent banking trojans of the moment, so while the arrest might not have a significant impact on cybercrime overall, it is good news: it sends the important message…

  • A Christmas present for the security community

    A botnet of Internet-connected cameras causing the largest DDoS ever; the ransomware threat that appears to get worse every day; a state-sponsored hacker group that attempted to influence a foreign election. 2016 has been quite a year for computer security. But that’s only half of the story. 2016 also saw many researchers analysing the threats,…

  • A Christmas present for the security community

    A botnet of Internet-connected cameras causing the largest DDoS ever; the ransomware threat that appears to get worse every day; a state-sponsored hacker group that attempted to influence a foreign election. 2016 has been quite a year for computer security. But that’s only half of the story. 2016 also saw many researchers analysing the threats,…

  • VB2016 paper: Modern attacks on Russian financial institutions

    Today, we publish the VB2016 paper “Modern attacks on Russian financial institutions” ( here in HTML format and here in PDF format) by ESET researchers Jean-Ian Boutin and Anton Cherepanov. In it, they look at a number of groups that have performed sophisticated attacks against a number of Russian financial institutions. The work of these…

  • VB2016 paper: Modern attacks on Russian financial institutions

    Today, we publish the VB2016 paper “Modern attacks on Russian financial institutions” ( here in HTML format and here in PDF format) by ESET researchers Jean-Ian Boutin and Anton Cherepanov. In it, they look at a number of groups that have performed sophisticated attacks against a number of Russian financial institutions. The work of these…

  • 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…

  • The Internet of Bad Things, Observed

    In his VB2015 keynote address, Ross Anderson described attacks against EMV cards. The VB2015 opening keynote by Ross Anderson could hardly have been more timely. In his talk “The Internet of Bad Things, Observed”, the Cambridge professor looked at various attacks against the EMV standard for payment cards — attacks that have been used to…