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Chris Boyd (Malwarebytes)
As adverts in gaming (‘advergaming’) ecosystems continue to become more sophisticated, so the potential complications grow for parents, children and gamers, who just want to play without having to worry about where their data is going (and how it is…
Read moreIrina Mariuca Asavoae (Swansea University)
Jorge Blasco (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Thomas M. Chen (City University London)
Harsha Kumara Kalutarage (Queen's University Belfast)
Igor Muttik (Cyber Curio)
Hoang Nga Nguyen (Coventry University)
Liam O’Reilly (Swansea University)
Markus Roggenbach (Swansea Univeristy)
Siraj Ahmed Shaikh (Coventry University)
Two or more mobile apps, viewed independently, may not appear to be malicious - but in combination, they could become harmful by exchanging information with one another and by performing malicious activities together. In this paper we look at how…
Read moreProf. Igor Muttik (Intel Security)
Prof. Markus Roggenbach (Swansea University)
Dr Jorge Blasco (City University, London)
Prof. Thomas M. Chen (City University, London)
Mobile operating systems support multiple communication methods between apps. Unfortunately, these handy inter-app communication mechanisms also make it possible to carry out harmful actions in a collaborative fashion. Two or more mobile apps, viewed…
Read moreAdam Haertlé (BadCyber.com)
This paper describes the ability of an amateur attacker with no technical skills to achieve success in his criminal enterprise. We will follow a Polish threat actor, known as ‘Thomas’, in his career as a wannabe cybercriminal from late 2011 until…
Read moreHimanshu Anand (Symantec)
Chastine Menrige (Symantec)
In the last couple of years, we have seen a few highly sophisticated router attacks and pieces of malware. This paper looks at two case studies: the Netgear router attack involving the Multiple Netgear Routers Remote Command Injection Vulnerability…
Read moreBahare Sabouri (Fortinet)
He Xu (Fortinet)
Andromeda, also known as Gamaru and Wauchos, is a modular and HTTP-based botnet that was discovered in late 2011. From that point on, it managed to survive and continue hardening by evolving in different ways. This paper describes the evolution of…
Read moreAmir Fouda (Microsoft)
When a new system of currency gains acceptance and widespread adoption in a computer-mediated population, it is only a matter of time before malware authors attempt to exploit it. As of halfway through 2011, we started seeing another means of…
Read moreRandy Abrams (Independent researcher)
Outside of the anti-malware industry, users of VirusTotal generally believe it is simply a virus-scanning service. Most users quickly reach erroneous conclusions about the meaning of various scanning results. At the same time, many very technical…
Read moreMartijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)
VB Editor Martijn Grooten looks at the state of the threat and security product landscape in 2017.
Read moreStanislav Skuratovich (Check Point Software Technologies)
Neomi Rona (Check Point Software Technologies)
The Cerber ransomware was mentioned for the first time in March 2016 on some Russian underground forums, on which it was offered for rent in an affiliate program. Since then, it has been spread massively via exploit kits, infecting more and more…
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