Monthly Archives: August 2013
From Russia with Love.exe – The Russian Underground Hacking Culture
While participating in HITBSecConf Malaysia, security analysts The Grugq and Fyodor Yarochkin present their study of the ins and outs of the Russian hacking...
HitmanPro 3 review
The seeming unpretentiousness that the Netherlands-based SurfRight software house made their famous HitmanPro utility exhibit is far from reflecting its actual malware extermination power....
FBI MoneyPak Virus: “Your computer has been locked by the FBI”
An aggressive ransomware campaign involving the so-called FBI MoneyPak virus (Reveton Trojan, Citadel, Trojan.Ransomlock.R) has been reportedly hitting computer users since 2012 and still...
Remove FBI MoneyPak Virus if Safe Mode Doesn’t Work
Cyber criminals are constantly improving and refining their virus code; recent versions of this Trojan block Windows Safe Mode functions described in our previous...
The Anatomy of Social Engineering
Reflected herein is a study by the Florida State University researchers pertaining to the analysis of social engineering from a psychological perspective.
We’re going to...
The Modern History of Cyber Warfare
This article reflects the lecture for CIS5930/CIS4930 "Offensive Security" at the Florida State University, covering some of the events that compose the history of...