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Security Practitioner’s Guide to Email Spoofing and Risk Reduction
January 24, 2019

In our previous extended blog, Tackling Phishing: The Most Popular Phishing Techniques and What You Can Do About It, we …

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Fresh blow for dark web markets: Nightmare market in disarray

August 13, 2019

Over the past three weeks, Digital Shadows has observed another popular dark web criminal market – Nightmare – experience several …

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Capital One Breach: What we know and what you can do

July 31, 2019

Monday blues. It’s a thing. It’s when you start the week feeling moody because your weekend is over. The feeling …

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The Account Takeover Kill Chain: A Five Step Analysis

July 30, 2019

It’s no secret that credential exposure is a growing problem. Take a look at Troy Hunt’s https://www.haveibeenpwned.com – a tool …

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A Growing Enigma: New AVC on the Block

July 19, 2019

This week, in a ground breaking announcement, the Bank of England named Alan Turing the new face of the £50 …

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Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: Cybercriminals tipping the scales in their favor

June 27, 2019

The announcements of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency “Libra” and its associated digital wallet “Calibra” have conjured up discussion, debate, criticism, and …

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BlueKeep: Cutting through the hype to prepare your organization

May 24, 2019

Over the last week we have all been tuning into our news feeds and listening to the security folks chatting …

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FBI IC3: Cybercrime Surges in 2018, Causing $2.7 Billion in Losses

April 23, 2019

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2018 Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3). In 2018, the IC3 responded …

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Easing into the extortion game

April 3, 2019

One of the main ideas which flowed through Photon’s most recent research report, A Tale of Epic Extortions, was that cyber …

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Predator: Modeling the attacker’s mindset

April 2, 2019

Author: Richard Gold  The phrases “attacker’s mindset” or “think like an attacker” are often used in cyber security to encourage …

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Cyber Risks and High-frequency Trading: Conversation with an Insider

March 26, 2019

Research from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published this week focused the attention on how financial systems around the …

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Dark Web Typosquatting: Scammers v. Tor

March 21, 2019

Time and time again, we see how the cybercriminal ecosystem often mirrors what happens in the business world. This can …

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Purple Teaming with Vectr, Cobalt Strike, and MITRE ATT&CK™

March 6, 2019

Authors: Simon Hall, Isidoros Monogioudis   Here at Digital Shadows we perform regular purple team exercises to continually challenge and …

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Extortion Exposed: Sextortion, thedarkoverlord, and SamSam

February 21, 2019

In our most recent research, A Tale of Epic Extortions, the Digital Shadows Photon Research Team approached the topic of …

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Photon Research Team Shines Light On Digital Risks

February 13, 2019

I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team. We have decided to bolster our …

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SANS DFIR Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2019 – Extracting More Value from Your CTI Program

February 5, 2019

We were fortunate to attend the 2019 SANS DFIR Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit this year, which brings together some of …

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Powering Investigations with Nuix Software: The Case of thedarkoverlord and the 9/11 Files

January 22, 2019

The Panama Papers in 2016 highlighted the challenges facing investigators dealing with large document leaks. With over 11.5 million documents …

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Thedarkoverlord runs out of Steem

January 16, 2019

On 31 December 2018, the notorious extortion actor known as “thedarkoverlord” announced on Twitter and Reddit that they were in …

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TV License and Vehicle Tax Fraud: New Year, Same Old Scams

January 8, 2019

Over the last week we’ve been tracking several emails impersonating UK services such as “TV Licensing” and “Vehicle Road Tax”. …

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Cyber Threats to Watch in 2019: Key Takeaways from our webinar with the FBI Cyber Squad

December 20, 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, Digital Shadows partnered with the FBI’s Cyber Division for a webinar to discuss some …

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Bomb Threat Emails: Extortion Gets Physical

December 14, 2018

We’ve seen yet another change in tactics for the recent spate of extortion campaigns. Whereas before these emails tried to …

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Tackling Phishing: The Most Popular Phishing Techniques and What You Can Do About It

December 12, 2018

Overall, the infosec community has done a relatively good job in securing systems. While a measure of restrained back-patting is …

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2019 Cyber Security Forecasts: Six Things on the Horizon

December 5, 2018

The new year is upon us! 2018 brought us Spectre and Meltdown, Russian GRU indictments, and the exposure of 500 …

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Threat Actors Use of Cobalt Strike: Why Defense is Offense’s Child

November 29, 2018

I’m a big fan of the Cobalt Strike threat emulation software. Here at Digital Shadows, it’s a staple of our …

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Mapping the ASD Essential 8 to the Mitre ATT&CK™ framework

November 27, 2018

Australian Signals Directorate Essential 8 The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has published what it calls the “Essential 8”: a set …

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Black Friday and Cybercrime: Retail’s Frankenstein Monster

November 20, 2018

With every year that passes, Black Friday seems to morph into a creation its original proponents could not have even …

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