Research Spotlight: Detecting Algorithmically Generated Domains

By Talos Group This post was authored by Mahdi Namazifar and Yuxi Pan Once a piece of malware has been successfully installed on a vulnerable system one of the first orders of business is for the malware to reach out to the remote command-and-control (C&C) servers in order to receive further instructions, updates and/or to exfiltrate valuable user data. If the rendezvous points with the C&C servers are hardcoded in the malware the communication can be effectively cut off by blacklisting, which limits […]

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Research Spotlight: Detecting Algorithmically Generated Domains

By Talos Group This post was authored by Mahdi Namazifar and Yuxi Pan Once a piece of malware has been successfully installed on a vulnerable system one of the first orders of business is for the malware to reach out to the remote command-and-control (C&C) servers in order to receive further instructions, updates and/or to exfiltrate valuable user data. If the rendezvous points with the C&C servers are hardcoded in the malware the communication can be effectively cut off by blacklisting, which limits […]

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Espionage in the Internet Age

By Jean Gordon Kocienda If you had asked me a few years ago, I might have predicted that the rise of large scale hacking and network-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) would spell the end of old-school espionage (poison-tipped umbrellas, office break-ins, dangles and the like). Those of us who fancy ourselves logical, savvy cyber security specialists can be forgiven for thinking such analog antics wouldn’t persist in a digital world. And yet, human espionage remains a nagging issue. A Russian spy ring was disrupted in New York […]

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Espionage in the Internet Age

By Jean Gordon Kocienda If you had asked me a few years ago, I might have predicted that the rise of large scale hacking and network-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) would spell the end of old-school espionage (poison-tipped umbrellas, office break-ins, dangles and the like). Those of us who fancy ourselves logical, savvy cyber security specialists can be forgiven for thinking such analog antics wouldn’t persist in a digital world. And yet, human espionage remains a nagging issue. A Russian spy ring was disrupted in New York […]

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