We live in the world full of serpents, overlook things for seconds and you are bitten to death. Trojans, viruses, malware are everywhere. They find new
Kaspersky Lab issued an important report on Monday (01.14.2013) about a major, extremely complicated cyber-attack that may have been operating since the year 2007. The famous antivirus company reported that it identified a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign, which targeted a wide range of government and diplomatic organizations located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia as well as in North America and Western Europe. That's some very powerful malware!
Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at Sea World in Orlando, was killed yesterday after being attacked by a killer whale.
News of the tragedy sped quickly around the world, and now sick cybercriminals are exploiting the story of 40-year-old Brancheau's death for their own commerical gain.
Through SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques, hackers have created webpages stuffed with content which appears to be ghoulish video footage of the animal trainer's death - but are really designed to infect visiting computers.
After a rather long day, night and morning of studying the news, researching and hunting the #WannaCry ransomware worm there are some discoveries to be shared.. This includes Host and Network IOCs, their analysis obtained with help of fellow security researchers and practitioners, review of C2 infrastructure and its interactions with Tor. Last but not least are some free SIEM use cases. What else should a security practitioner know for their handling of WannaCry?