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Articles by Yury Namestnikov
Do cybercriminals play cyber games during quarantine?
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the role of the Internet in our lives has undergone changes, including irreversible ones. Some of these changes are definitely for the better, some are not very good, but almost all of them in some way affect digital security issues. We decided to take a closer look at the changes around us through the prism of information security, starting with the video game industry.
Cybersecurity of Connected Healthcare : @VMblog
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2020. Read them in this 12th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
FIN7.5: the infamous cybercrime rig “FIN7” continues its activities
On August 1, 2018, the US Department of Justice announced that it had arrested several individuals suspected of having ties to the FIN7 cybercrime rig. FIN7 operations are linked to numerous intrusion attempts having targeted hundreds of companies since at least as early as 2015. Interestingly, this threat actor created fake companies in order to hire remote pentesters, developers and interpreters to participate in their malicious business.
Time of death? A therapeutic postmortem of connected medicine
#TheSAS2017 presentation: Smart Medicine Breaches Its “First Do No Harm” Principle At last year’s Security Analyst Summit 2017 we predicted that medical networks would be a titbit for cybercriminals. Unfortunately, we were right. The numbers of medical data breaches and leaks are increasing. According to public data, this year is no exception. For a year we have been observing how cybercriminals encrypt medical data and demand a ransom for it.
Hajime, the mysterious evolving botnet
Hajime (meaning ‘beginning’ in Japanese) is an IoT worm that was first mentioned on 16 October 2016 in a public report by RapidityNetworks. One month later we saw the first samples being uploaded from Spain to VT. This worm builds a huge P2P botnet (almost 300,000 devices at the time of publishing this blogpost), but its real purpose remains unknown. Hajime is continuously evolving, adding and removing features over time. The malware authors are mainly reliant on very low levels of security.
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