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OCTOBER 5, 2021

I'm Robert Vamosi and in this episode I'm digging deeper into those IoT botnets, and I'm going to talk to two researchers who are looking at creative ways to defend against IoT malware, and a key piece of that puzzle is finding and stopping what's known as command and control server, or the CnCS behind those botnets. We still have malware.

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APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m exploring a novel database operating system that promises to be disruptive to how we mitigate malware today. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. The point of this?

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s a clever way for malware to be monetized.

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APRIL 26, 2022

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. When they did that. They are unto themselves their own things.

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JUNE 21, 2022

So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Vamosi: Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system. I have all the abilities built into Windows or built into Linux or Mac to do this for me.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. In May 2021, for Episode 20 of The Hacker Mind , I interviewed Frank Duff was then the Director of ATT&CK Evaluations for MITRE Engenuity. Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well.

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