Two weeks ago, a co-worker received a message in Facebook Messenger from his friend. Based on the message, it seemed that the sender was telling the recipient that he was part of a video in order to lure him into clicking it. The shortened link was initially redirecting to Youtube.com, but was later on changed […]

Following up on our post from yesterday, as an intellectual thought experiment, let’s take the position that there’s something to the idea of (Eternal) Petya not being motivated by money/profit. Let’s also just go ahead and imagine that it’s been developed by a nation state. In my mind, it raises the following question: WTF WHY? […]

There’s been a lot of speculation and conjecture around this “Petya” outbreak. A great deal of it seems to have been fueled by confirmation bias (to us, at least). Many things about this malware don’t add up (at first glance). But it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened. And yet everyone seems to have […]

We’ve published a White Paper today titled: The Callisto Group. And who/what is the Callisto Group? A good question, here’s the paper’s summary. Heavy use of spear phishing, and malicious attachments sent via legitimate, but compromised, email accounts. Don’t click “OK”.

After several high-profile cyber attacks made big news headlines this year, it’s become evident to me, through online commentary, that there’s some confusion in the public space about how incident response services are utilized, how attribution is performed, and how law enforcement’s role fits into cyber crime investigations. I’m hoping this article helps to clear […]

On November 10th 2016 Blizzard enacted a “ban wave” on thousands of World of Warcraft accounts for “botting”, a term widely used to describe using third party programs to automate gameplay. Technically it wasn’t a “ban wave” – the accounts in question received between 6 and 24 month suspensions based on how often they’d been […]

Helsinki will host a new centre focused on curbing the growing threat of hybrid warfare according to recent reports. Disinformation and fake news is considered “hybrid warfare” in this context. The proposed annual budget is reportedly estimated at two million euros. I think… they’re gonna need a bigger boat. Fighting against hybrid warfare disinformation will […]

Netflix recently fixed an account takeover vulnerability involving automated phone calls and caller ID spoofing. The issue? An attacker could use Netflix’s “forgot email/password” feature to reset an account’s password by directing the reset code to a voice call. In order to force the code to voice mail, the attacker would need to call the […]

We’re frequently asked about “Next Gen” antivirus companies, which is not surprising. They’ve been making a lot of noise and bold claims during the last couple of years (so, basically, since they were founded). So let’s take a look at what they’re all about. Coopetition in the AV industry But before getting into what “Next […]

A day before the controversial United States Presidential elections, an email was distributed to inform the recipients of a possible attack during election day as mentioned in a manifesto, allegedly from the ISIS terrorist group, entitled “The Murtadd Vote”. The email was supposedly sent by the head of a US-based terrorist monitoring group. The message […]