While some ransomware (i.e. Chimera) give bogus threats about stealing and releasing private files, there are other malware families that in fact…
Month: August 2016
A week in security (Aug 07 – Aug 13)
Last week, we revealed a new Facebook celebrity death hoax, shed light on the case of a fake NatWest Bank Twitter…
Venus Locker another .NET ransomware
The current cyberthreat landscape is an ever dynamic threat, we have state-sponsored cyberthreats and very sophisticated cybercriminals to defend against. These…
Neutrino EK: more Flash trickery
A while back we wrote about the Neutrino exploit kit performing fingerprinting checks to weed out security researchers and honeypots attempting to catch…
College cybersecurity survival guide
As students, teachers, and educational admins gear up for the school year, they should have more than new books and a…
Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter
We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past,…
Decrypting Chimera ransomware
We’ve recently wrote about the leak of keys for Chimera ransomware. In this, more technical post, we will describe how to utilize…
Malvertising campaign delivers two exploit kits, same payload
Malvertising remains a favourite distribution platform for pushing out malware and we typically see certain exploit kits associated with particular campaigns. As…
New celebrity death hoax hits Facebook
These past few days, it appears that Facebook (and YouTube) has become the launchpad to yet another celebrity death hoax. This…
A week in security (Jul 31 – Aug 06)
Last week, we did an in-depth analysis of Smoke Loader, took a closer look into Neutrino exploit kit’s jQueryGate, found a…