End of an era
The content of this site has now been moved/copied to The AVIEN Portal and all new content will be added to that site only. David Harley
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Site Transfer
This site is in the process of being transferred to the AVIEN portal here. Pages that have already been transferred now just contain a link to the corresponding page, but there’s still a lot of housekeeping to do. In the meantime, however, new bl… Continue reading Site Transfer
17th March 2018 resources and article updates
Specific Ransomware Families and Types Checkpoint: The GandCrab Ransomware Mindset Kaspersky: GANDCRAB RANSOMWARE CROOKS TAKE AGILE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH Cryptocurrency/Crypto-mining News and Resources PETER KÁLNAI and MICH… Continue reading 17th March 2018 resources and article updates
16th March 2018 resources updates
Added to the AMD section of the Meltdown/Spectre resource page, which for administrative reasons has now been moved here. [16th March 2018] Not Meltdown/Spectre, but allegedly similar issues: Richi Jennings for Tech Beacon: AMD CPU PSP holes… Continue reading 16th March 2018 resources updates
13th March 2018 resources updates
(1) New section on Trend Micro Resources in Meltdown/Spectre – Related Resources Trend Micro: Detecting Attacks that Exploit Meltdown and Spectre with Performance Counters “We worked on a detection technique for attacks that explo… Continue reading 13th March 2018 resources updates
12th March 2018 resources updates
Specific Ransomware Families and Types The Register: Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users – “Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’” ESET: New DDoS attack method breaks record aga… Continue reading 12th March 2018 resources updates
8th March 2018 resources updates
Specific Ransomware Families and Types Bruce Schneier: New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant SecurityWeek: Memcached DDoS Attack ‘Kill Switch’ Found ZDnet: Memcached DDoS: This ‘kill switch’ can stop attacks dead in their trac… Continue reading 8th March 2018 resources updates
March 5th 2018 resources update
Updates to Cryptocurrency/Crypto-mining News and Resources ESET: Cryptojacking: the result of the “cryptocurrency rush” Kaspersky: Mining is the new black Commentary from John Leyden for The Register: CryptoLurker hacker crew skulk abo… Continue reading March 5th 2018 resources update
March 5th 2018 resources update
Update to Ransomware Recovery and Prevention For Tripwire, Paul Norris writes about How PCI/DSS Compliance Can Protect Your Systems against New Ransomware Threats. His take on the history of ransomware is a little wobbly, and I’m not su… Continue reading March 5th 2018 resources update
Memcached,DDoS, RDoS, DDoS-for-Bitcoin
Catalin Cimpanu for Bleeping Computer: Some Memcached DDoS Attackers Are Asking for a Ransom Demand in Monero. Basically, more on the Memcached story but with a little background on earlier DDoS for ransom attacks. Cimpanu says that “accordi… Continue reading Memcached,DDoS, RDoS, DDoS-for-Bitcoin