Network World

JUNE 30, 2016

LizardStresser, the DDoS malware for Linux systems written by the infamous Lizard Squad attacker group, was used over the past year to create over 100 botnets, some built almost exclusively from compromised Internet-of-Things devices. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. We are continuing to observe an unyielding surge in the volume of cyberthreats, including advanced malware, botnets, ransomware, cryptojacking, and more," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start, in a press release.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. It targets Linux-based systems on the x86, x86-64 and ARM architectures, including many embedded devices such as routers.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a previously unidentified data wiper, which they have named CryWiper, that was used to attack Russian government agencies, including mayors' offices and courts. The malware was developed in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alex Birsan, a Romanian threat researcher, recently made over $130,000 by virtuously breaking into IT systems at dozens of major tech companies. Read more.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Attackers have started to use Windows and Android malware to hack into embedded devices, dispelling the widely held belief that if such devices are not directly exposed to the Internet they're less vulnerable.

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Network World

MARCH 29, 2017

According to research conducted by Symantec , the number of cyberattacks against small businesses (companies with fewer than 250 employees) has been steadily growing over the last six years, with hackers specifically targeting employees (phishing). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” Vaughan-Nichols writes about the first malware discovered running on AWS Lambda. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Zone Alarm Cybersecurity blog offers information on malware and protecting yourself online. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more. Securelist is a Kaspersky Lab web property focusing on malware, phishing, and the cybersecurity industry.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Zone Alarm Cybersecurity blog offers information on malware and protecting yourself online. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more. Securelist is a Kaspersky Lab web property focusing on malware, phishing, and the cybersecurity industry.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Zone Alarm Cybersecurity blog offers information on malware and protecting yourself online. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more. Securelist is a Kaspersky Lab web property focusing on malware, phishing, and the cybersecurity industry.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Zone Alarm Cybersecurity blog offers information on malware and protecting yourself online. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more. Securelist is a Kaspersky Lab web property focusing on malware, phishing, and the cybersecurity industry.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Zone Alarm Cybersecurity blog offers information on malware and protecting yourself online. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more. Securelist is a Kaspersky Lab web property focusing on malware, phishing, and the cybersecurity industry.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

He has worked on a number of applied research and development projects to explore technologies for the next generation of high performance computing solutions for NASA scientists, including being the co-Investigator on the MERRA Analytics Service Project, which has lead to the formulation of Climate Analytics-as-a-Service (CAaaS).

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

He has worked on a number of applied research and development projects to explore technologies for the next generation of high performance computing solutions for NASA scientists, including being the co-Investigator on the MERRA Analytics Service Project, which has lead to the formulation of Climate Analytics-as-a-Service (CAaaS).

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In discovering Heartbleed what the researchers got back wasn’t a crash, it wasn’t a fault, it was anomalous behavior. In March of 2014, researchers from Google and a Finnish start up named Codenomicon both turned their attention to OpenSSL. Vamosi: Fuzz testing tools came out of academic research. Coincidence, right?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In discovering Heartbleed what the researchers got back wasn’t a crash, it wasn’t a fault, it was anomalous behavior. In March of 2014, researchers from Google and a Finnish start up named Codenomicon both turned their attention to OpenSSL. Vamosi: Fuzz testing tools came out of academic research. Coincidence, right?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In discovering Heartbleed what the researchers got back wasn’t a crash, it wasn’t a fault, it was anomalous behavior. In March of 2014, researchers from Google and a Finnish start up named Codenomicon both turned their attention to OpenSSL. Vamosi: Fuzz testing tools came out of academic research. Coincidence, right?

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ForAllSecure

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.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s about a researcher, his fuzzer, and a mission to recreate a known vulnerability in the MQTT protocol, and what resulted in him finding several vulnerabilities in other related open source projects. And there’s the researchers, the one that come along and find things. Vamosi: Jonathan is one of the good guys.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. There certainly is in the security researcher community. Vulnerability researchers and red team folks certainly look at attacker behavior. So we've done research on everything from cyber deterrence. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. There certainly is in the security researcher community. Vulnerability researchers and red team folks certainly look at attacker behavior. So we've done research on everything from cyber deterrence. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. There certainly is in the security researcher community. Vulnerability researchers and red team folks certainly look at attacker behavior. So we've done research on everything from cyber deterrence. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

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. What if we could further evolve the basic operating system beyond just managing resources but also now mitigating any malware trying to make changes. The point of this?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Analysts that evaluate cybersecurity software, such as Forrester Research and Gartner, increasingly rank Microsoft security products among the leaders. Microsoft has a very large, cyber Petri dish within which to research cyber threats,” said Scott. Perceptions are changing.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. And I work on a team called surge which is primarily a research group focused on security. Vamosi: What drew me to this story wasn’t Splunk;s Surge Research into the past. --[Music] --.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. Duff: ATT&CK itself is just a project within the MITRE Corporation, right, so it was originally spun up as a research and development effort that was being done about eight years ago now. It traditionally supports the research for several U.S.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

They spent that time researching and understanding the environment. So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. When they did that. So it was there was times when we when we were worried.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

WIENS: Yeah, so So Vector 35 grew out of a number of folks that were playing CTFs that were doing vulnerability research doing reverse engineering for government contracting purposes and then thought like, you know what, it'd be nice to see sunshine, have a window at her office, get outside, do more Hilton commercial. It's pretty fantastic.

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ForAllSecure

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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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The researchers predict that soon it'll be hard to tell a human user at the keyboard, or at the mouse, from a bot or AI-driven entity. 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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers in the 60s were mostly computer science students and researchers who wanted to explore the limits of computer technology. The 1980s also saw the emergence of computer viruses and malware as a significant threat to computer security. The early 2010s also saw the growing use of social media by hackers and cybercriminals.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Even if it's running simple Linux commands and just being in the command line to navigate around the file system, it'll get you started. So you'll go and learn, and you'll go and study and research and Google around and try and solve whatever task is in front of you. And you can find some of her malware analysis on the Internet.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Hammond: I grew up, kind of like any kid like oh I want to make video games or oh I want to be a hacker, and they'll go online and kind of Google and research that sort of thing. Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Hammond: I grew up, kind of like any kid like oh I want to make video games or oh I want to be a hacker, and they'll go online and kind of Google and research that sort of thing. Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs.

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