Articles on Malware

• Malware Internet Noise and Malicious Requests to a New Web Server
  A new web server with no public content immediately receives scans for open proxies, probes from potentially infected systems, and searches for phpMyAdmin vulnerabilities. These requests represent...
• Social Engineering Attackers Rely on Social Engineering to Activate Macros in Malicious Documents
  Malicious document authors persuade victims to enable macros by claiming the security warning indicates protected content or by providing detailed step-by-step instructions for changing macro...
• Incident Response Speaking at the Forensic Lunch
• Malware Malware: Whom or What Are We Fighting?
  The people behind malware shape the threat as much as the malware itself. Effective defense requires understanding the threat actors, their motivations, and how they operate.
• Malware Researching Scams Helps Understand Human Vulnerabilities
  Online scammers exploit predictable human vulnerabilities: starting scams in the physical world, customizing messages with victims' locations, appealing to vanity and self-interest, posing as...
• Incident Response Why Organizations Don't Prepare for Information Security Incidents
  Organizations fail to prepare for security incidents not because they're unaware of threats, but because they believe they personally won't be attacked and underestimate the disruptive effects of...