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“Don’t Click It”, Applies to SMS as Well: Anatomy of a Facebook / SMS Phish
For years we have been taught to be extra cautious when opening emails and to not click on links in unsolicited emails. Sadly this even applies to emails that appear to be from known sources (spear-phishing attempts). There are a number of “tells” one can look for when viewing the raw source code of the [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
Malicious Twitter Applications and Abuse of the Twitter API
By: C. Shawn Eib and Eric Ellason Every online platform has at one time or another dealt with their systems being misused by cyber criminals, either for hacking accounts, sending out spam, or infecting other users. The Twitter platform is no different and is also not immune to these problems. Less well known than Facebook [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
Welcome to the Fancy Bear Den: To Know All Read a Book
By: Eric Ellason and C. Shawn Eib A massive, sophisticated malware infection campaign, that has been ongoing for well over a year, compromised over 500,000 home and small business routers across 54 countries before the FBI, in coordination with the Shadowserver Foundation, seized a domain responsible for delivering further payloads to infected devices (ref) . [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
Anatomy of a Spam Email and New Techniques Being Used to Evade Detection – Part I
As what probably some would think is an odd hobby, we collect and analyze spam in our spare time. What is interesting about looking at the nuts and bolts of spam campaigns is the ever changing techniques that are used to evade detection. There are all kinds of digital weapons deployed to identify and stop [Read More…]
A Different Take on the Krebs on Security Article about Marcus Hutchins’ Past (aka @malwaretechblog the accidental hero who stopped Wannacry)
Most people who spend any time online know about the Wannacry ransomware incident that happened in May of this year. Less know how the global spread of WannaCry was serendipitously stopped by a British whitehat security researcher known at the time by his twitter handle @malwaretechblog. Journalists would later determine that his name was Marcus [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
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