Antivirus

Awesome Malware Analysis – Resources

Source and credit: https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis   I save it here for easier reference. Do note that this list grows a lot !   A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-php. Awesome Malware Analysis Malware Collection Anonymizers Honeypots Malware Corpora Open Source Threat Intelligence Tools Other Resources Detection and […]

Security

About ransomware, Google malvertising and Fraud

I am sick and tired to see so many people affected by this wave of ransomware attacks. I don’t want to go into details about Ransomware like Locky because it has been written quite a lot about it. The most common way that Locky arrives is as follows: You receive an email containing an attached […]

Security Spam & Phishing

Spam with a malicious taste (update)

This post appeared originally in: IT Security blog: http://itsecurity.co.uk/2015/03/spam-malicious-taste/   I haven’t seen in a while a well done complex spam with malicious payload. This one appears to be addressed to first name of the email recipient. As you can see in the subject, it is addressed to “SORIN” since my email address is sorin.mustaca@… The […]

Security

Why the Security of USB Is NOT Fundamentally Broken

I am very, very unhappy about the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) created by Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell  who will present their findings, as well as proof-of-concept software, at the Black Hatconference in Las Vegas this August. What makes me unhappy is how easy they generalize the fact that in some extraordinary circumstances some bad things can […]

News

Virus Bulletin International Conference 2011

  The VB2011 – the 21st Virus Bulletin International Conference took place between  5-7 October 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. The city of Barcelona is a wonderful place to be. Pity that I didn’t have enough time to see all of its wonders.   Here is the article about the Opening of the conference.   Here are the reports from […]