Packer

July 1, 2019

THREAT RESEARCH

RATs and stealers rush through “Heaven’s Gate” with new loader

Malware is constantly finding new ways to avoid detection. This doesn’t mean that some will never be detected, but it does allow adversaries to increase the period of time between initial release and detection. Flying under the radar for just a few days is enough to infect sufficient machines…

July 19, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Unravelling .NET with the Help of WinDBG

This blog was authored by Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer. Introduction .NET is an increasingly important component of the Microsoft ecosystem providing a shared framework for interoperability between different languages and hardware platforms. Many Microsoft tools, such as PowerShell, and other…

May 13, 2016

CLOUD

Don’t Fix it, Throw it Away! Disposable Infrastructure @ OSCON 2016

Next week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Austin, Texas, I’ll be teaching systems administrators and developers how to throw away their servers each time they want to make a simple change. Sounds ridiculous? That’s what I thought as first too. But ask any experien…