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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. The Canadian regulator is investigating IDScan for potential data privacy violations, while the ransomware PAYLOAD has demonstrated a new tactic, paralyzing an organization without file encryption. Volexity reported a China-aligned threat group exploiting vulnerabilities in Chrome and Microsoft software. The hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI, raising significant counterintelligence concerns. Additionally, ClosedQuorum malware is leveraging AI for attack decisions, indicating a trend towards more sophisticated, autonomous threats. CISA has urged federal agencies to patch a critical Zyxel flaw actively exploited by attackers. Meanwhile, the rise of AI in cybercrime continues, with deepfakes and AI-driven bots posing increasing risks to organizations.
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Thinktank IPPR’s findings spell worrying news for online security and cyber-bullying.
In this post, we discuss the creation of a novel software obfuscation toolkit, MAST, implemented in the LLVM compiler and suitable for denying program understanding to even the most well-resourced adversary. Our implementation is inspired by effective obfuscation techniques used by nation-state malw...
Alleged scammers managed to con one victim out of $290,000
UK mobile phone security ranks shockingly low as phone theft persists.
We are proud to announce that McSema is now open source! McSema is a framework for analyzing and transforming machine-code programs to LLVM bitcode. It supports translation of x86 machine code, including integer, floating point, and SSE instructions. We previously covered some features of McSema in...
Border Agency advisers didn’t do their job, tribunal rules
The social network’s sharing function makes some blogs prime targets.
A 2-day conference exploring state-of-the-art advances in security automation. We would like to share the call for papers for THREADS 2014, a research and development conference that is part of NYU-Poly’s Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW). Trail of Bits is a founding sponsor of THREADS. The final...
newGOZ Trojan is spreading globally and poised to start stealing funds.
Unpatched software leaves the door open for widespread cyber-espionage and more.
We’re proud to be a sponsor of the first Build it Break it programming contest, run by the University of Maryland (UMD) and supported by one of our own employees and PhD student at the university, Andrew Ruef. Build it Break it is a “flipped CTF” where contestants both implement secure software and...
Rather than intellectual property, the hackers went after patients’ personal data.
Documents claim British spies are port scanning for vulnerabilities on a massive scale.
At Trail of Bits we are proud of our roots in academia and research, and we believe it is important to promote cyber security education for students of every academic level. We recently sponsored a High School Capture the Flag (CTF) event, we released a CTF Field Guide, and we are a regular part of...
Private investigators allegedly used false identities to trick government staff into handing over personal info
Social media messages loaded with malicious links and apps prey on fears of surveillance.
New York, NY (July 15th, 2014)—Veteran computer security researcher Nicholas DePetrillo has joined Trail of Bits, the New York-based security company, as Principal Security Researcher. Trail of Bits Co-founder and CEO Dan Guido announced the hire today. DePetrillo brings the headcount of the firm, w...
Edward Snowden reveals sophisticated new cyber strategy being developed by spy agency
Researcher finds bug in firmware making factory reset useless
Firm claims mixing upper and lower case with numbers and other characters makes no difference.