Collaborate Disseminate
I like to know if hashing protects privacy enough, i.e., if a hash of PII is still considered to be personally identifying information (PII).
I found this article: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/07/20/hashing-pii-does-not-protect-priv… Continue reading Hashing to protect privacy
I was wondering about the design of totp and 2fa. I learned that 2fa is any 2 of the following authentication methods:
Something you know (e.g. a password)
Something you have (e.g. an email address)
Something you are (e.g. biometrics)
In this post, we’ll look at a campaign, that targeted multiple 3D or digital artists using NFT, with malware named RedLine. This malware is a so called “infostealer” or “information stealer” that is capable of extracting sensitive data from your machi… Continue reading Digital artists targeted in RedLine infostealer campaign
Several years ago, I created a “malware puzzle” – basically, a crossword puzzle but with terms related to malware. You can find that puzzle here: https://bartblaze.blogspot.com/2013/08/malware-puzzle.html
Seeing crosswords are a hobby of mine, I though… Continue reading Blue Team Puzzle
The cybercrime group that brought us Satan, DBGer and Lucky ransomware and perhaps Iron ransomware, has now come up with a new version or rebranding named “5ss5c”.
In a previous blog post, Satan ransomware adds EternalBlue exploit, I described ho… Continue reading Satan ransomware rebrands as 5ss5c ransomware
Introduction
Earlier this evening I saw a tweet appear which claimed Monero has been hacked and a malicious binary (instead of the real one) has been served:
Warning Monero users: If you downloaded Monero in the past 24 hours you may have installed… Continue reading Monero project compromised
This weekend I was cleaning up an old Acer laptop of mine and discovered a hidden folder on the root drive, C:\OEM.
Inside’s a bunch of interesting files, one of these is a tool called RunCmd_X64.exe.
The file is legitimate and signed binary … Continue reading Run applications and scripts using Acer’s RunCmd
Last week, a friend of mine reached out with a query: a contact in his address book had sent him a suspicious email. As it turns out, it was. In this blog post, we’ll have a quick look at an Office 365 phishing campaign, which turned out to be massive…. Continue reading Analysing a massive Office 365 phishing campaign
I need to pass credit card information for a travel reservation, and I am thinking of splitting it over email and text. The credit card number itself would be send over text, while expiration date and verification number woul… Continue reading How secure is it to send credit card information partially over email and text?
A new ransomware family was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, which we’ll call MAFIA due to the extension it uses to encrypt files. The ransomware appears to target users in Korea, and may have been developed with at least knowledge of the Korean langua… Continue reading MAFIA ransomware targeting users in Korea