I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Calendar Subscriptions Are Back?“: Did this threat really disappear? This isn’t a brand new technique to deliver malicious content to mobile devices but it seems that attackers started new waves of spam campaigns based on malicious calendar subscriptions. Being a dad, you can imagine that
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Attackers Will Always Abuse Major Events in our Lifes“: All major events in our daily life are potential sources of revenue for attackers. When elections or major sports events are organized, attackers will surf on these waves and try to make some profit or
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Cryptocurrency Clipboard Swapper Delivered With Love“: Be careful if you’re a user of cryptocurrencies. My goal is not to re-open a debate about them and their associated financial risks. No, I’m talking here about technical risk. Wallet addresses are long strings of characters that
published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Waiting for the C2 to Show Up“: Keep this in mind: “Patience is key”. Sometimes when you are working on a malware sample, you depend on online resources. I’m working on a classic case: a Powershell script decodes then injects a shellcode into a process. There
Dear IoT manufacturers, Yes, I admit: I like your products and my Geekness does not help! I like to play with them. If some are “gadgets” that finally land in a drawer amongst others with cables and connectors, some of them are really useful and I use them daily. You
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Microsoft Word Remains A Key Infection Vector“: Despite Microsoft’s attempts to make its Office suite more secure and disable many automatic features, despite the fact that users are warned that suspicious documents should not be opened, malicious Word documents remain a key
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Infected With a .reg File“: Yesterday, I reported a piece of malware that uses archive.org to fetch its next stage. Today, I spotted another file that is also interesting: A Windows Registry file (with a “.reg” extension). Such files are text files created by exporting values
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Content Delivered Through archive.org“: archive.org, also known as the “way back machine” is a very popular Internet site that allows you to travel back in time and browse old versions of a website (like the ISC website). It works like regular search engines and
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Using Sudo with Python For More Security Controls“: I’m a big fan of the Sudo command. This tool, available on every UNIX flavor, allows system administrators to provide access to certain users/groups to certain commands as root or another user. This is performed with a
I did not write any wrap-up for a while because we are all stuck at home and most conference organizers still decided to cancel live events (even if it seems to change by the end of 2021 where some nice events are already scheduled). For the second time, Pass-The-Salt was
