Blocking cyber attacks; Why you should understand adversary playbooks
This blog post is a summary of this weeks Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).
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What we learned from DEF CON 26
Cyber security is increasingly important to companies. We went to DEF CON to see what the hackers were doing.
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-16
State-Sponsored Cyber Actors do State-Sponsored Cyber Actor stuff US-CERT published a joint Technical Alert (TA) resulting from efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) providing information on the worldwide cyber exploitation of network infrastructure devices (e.g., router, switch, firewall, […]
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-12
Bitcoins blockchain poisoned Researchers from the RWTH Aachen University and Goethe University, Germany, have uncovered images and links to child pornography in cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s blockchain. The analysis found that certain content, such as illegal pornography, would render the mere possession of a blockchain illegal, with data distributed to all Bitcoin participants. Version 7 of CIS […]
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-04
It has been announced that hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections. This seem to be a good showcase of cyber warfare and capabilities. Maersk chair detailed the reinstall “4,000 new servers, 45,000 new PCs, and 2,500 applications” after the NotPetya attack […]
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-01
Meltdown and Spectre, two security flaws said to be affecting almost all CPUs released since 1995, was announced this week, and will probably haunt us for years to come. Exploit code used in the Mirai malware variant called Satori, which was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers over the past several weeks, […]