I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Phishing Attack Through Non-Delivery Notification”: Here is a nice example of phishing attack that I found while reviewing data captured by my honeypots. We all know that phishing is a pain and attackers are always searching for new tactics to entice the potential victim to
Nominated for the IT Blog Awards
This morning, I received a mail from Cisco to tell me that I’ve been nominated as finalist for their IT Blog Awards (Category: “Most Inspirational”). I’m maintaining this blog just for the fun and to share useful (I hope) information with my readers and don’t do this to get rewards
Botconf 2018 Wrap-Up Day #3
And the conference is over! I’m flying back to home by tomorrow morning so I’ve time to write my third wrap-up. The last day of the conference is always harder for many attendees due to the late parties. But I was present on time to attend the last set of
Botconf 2018 Wrap-Up Day #2
I’m just back from the reception that was held at the Cité de l’Espace, such a great place with animations and exhibitions of space related devices. It’s tie for my wrap-up of the second day. This morning, after some coffee refill, the first talk of the day was performed by Jose
Botconf 2018 Wrap-Up Day #1
Here is my first wrap-up for the 6th edition of the Botconf security conference. Like the previous editions, the event is organized in a different location in France. This year, the beautiful city of Toulouse saw 400 people flying from all over the world to attend the conference dedicated to
DeepSec 2018 Wrap-Up
I’m writing this quick wrap-up in Vienna, Austria where I attended my first DeepSec conference. This event was already on my schedule for a while but I never had a chance to come. This year, I submitted a training and I was accepted! Good opportunity to visit the beautiful city
[SANS ISC] More obfuscated shell scripts: Fake MacOS Flash update
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “More obfuscated shell scripts: Fake MacOS Flash update”: Yesterday, I wrote a diary about a nice obfuscated shell script. Today, I found another example of a malicious shell script embedded in an Apple .dmg file (an Apple Disk Image). The file was delivered through
[SANS ISC] Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes“: One of our readers, Nathaniel Vos, shared an interesting shell script with us and thanks to him! He found it on an embedded Linux device, more precisely, a QNap NAS running QTS 4.3. After some quick investigations,
[SANS ISC] Divided Payload in Multiple Pasties
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Divided Payload in Multiple Pasties”: In politic, there is a strategy which says “divide and conquerâ€. It’s also true for some pieces of malware that spread their malicious code amongst multiple sources. One of our readers shared a sample of Powershell code found
[SANS ISC] Querying DShield from Cortex
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Querying DShield from Cortex”: Cortex is a tool part of the TheHive project. As stated on the website, it is a “Powerful Observable Analysis Engine”. Cortex can analyze observables like IP addresses, emails, hashes, filenames against a huge (and growing) list of online services.