Malware
SANS ISC Diary - Analysis of a triple-encrypted AZORult downloader
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A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one we take a look at analysis of an interesting malicious document which turned out to be AZORult downloader. What made it stand out - among its other aspects - were 3 layers of home-grown encryption...

SANS ISC Diary - E-mail from Agent Tesla
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A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one we take a look at a multi-stage downloader for Agent Tesla.

SANS ISC Diary - Analysis of a strangely poetic malware
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A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one we take a look at a macro-based dropper sent to the Internet Storm Center by one of our readers.

SANS ISC Diary - Tricky LNK points to TrickBot
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A Guest Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at analyzing a malicious LNK file which leads us to a sample of Trickbot.

It's 2019 and WannaCry is still not dead
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Unless you live completely cut off from the rest of human civilization, chances are good you’ve heard about the WannaCry ransomware. However, so we’re all on the same page, I’ll go over the salient points of its history before discussing why it is still a threat. WannaCry - the first successful crypto-ransomware worm - started to spread on May 12th 2017 using the EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor implant (both courtesy of the Shadow Brokers and - by proxy - Equation Group/NSA) and supposedly hit more than 100 countries within the first 24 hours.

Looking back at October 2015
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October was named European Month of Cyber Security and because of that, many events intended to raise cyber security awareness (such as Security Fest in Prague) were held during the 30 day period. Unfortunately, October has seen just as many new developments on the proverbial “dark side” of cyber security. One of these was a widely followed theft of personal data (including credit card numbers) of up to four milion customers of a British telecommunication service provider TalkTalk.

Looking back at September 2015
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Information concerning number of devices vulnerable to Heartbleed vulnerability has appeared in the news during September. Given that the existence of Heartbleed was made public almost a year and a half ago it may be surprising that the number of vulnerable devices exceeds 200.000. Affair concerning the Stagefright vulnerability (which was mentioned in the last Looking back) continued in September when Zimperium – the company which discovered Stagefright – released a proof-of-concept code which exploits the vulnerability.