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The Analyst Prompt #02: Threat Intel for Cryptocurrency, NSO Group Rebranding, and a Distillation of Pwnkit Intel.
Policy and Governance: Making a Case for Cryptocurrency Threat Intelligence In late January, Blockchain Bridge Wormhole, a Fintech organization in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space that provides 3rd party services to support ...
5 Reasons Companies Are Denied Cybersecurity Insurance | ARIA
Cybersecurity insurance is an absolute necessity for any business operating in the modern world. However, increasing demand and threats of attacks have made insurance companies much more hesitant to offer claims. Here ...
New Report From Flashpoint and Risk Based Security Finds 22 Billion Records Exposed in 2021 Data Breaches
Today, Risk Based Security’s annual Data Breach QuickView Report was released, from Inga Goddijn, Executive Vice President of RBS, and featuring quantitative research from Ashley Allocca, Cybersecurity Intelligence Analyst at Flashpoint. Powered ...
BlackCat ransomware – what you need to know
What is this BlackCat thing I’ve heard about? BlackCat (also known as ALPHV) is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, which has been aggressively recruiting affiliates from other ransomware groups and targeting ...
Profiling the Emotet Botnet C&C Infrastructure – An OSINT Analysis
Dear blog readers,I've decided to share a recently obtained Emotet botnet C&C server IPs for the purpose of empowering everyone with the necessary technical information on their way to track down and ...
Profiling Russia’s U.S Election Interference 2016 – An OSINT Analysis
Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - https://whoisxmlapi.com where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021. We’ve decided to take a closer look at ...
Spider-Man: Employees Clicking on Crypto-mining Malware File
Spider-Man: No Way Home, which debuted in December 2021, is now in its fifth weekend in theaters with over $1.5B in box office sales. Despite being only available in theaters, it is the ...
Exposing a Portfolio of Pay Per Install Rogue and Fraudulent and Malicious Affiliate Network Domains – An OSINT Analysis
Dear blog readers,I've decided to share with everyone an in-depth historical OSINT analysis on some of the primary pay per install rogue fraudulent and malicious affiliate network based rogue and fraudulent revenue ...
Pandemic Surveillance in Canada, Malware-Filled USB Sticks are Back, Kill Switches in New Cars
Canada’s federal government admitted to surveilling its population’s movements during the COVID-19 lock-down by tracking 33 million phones, the FBI warned that a hacker group has been sending malware-laden USB sticks to ...
Qbot, ZLoader Represent 89% of Payload Volume in Q4
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