Author Archives: Emin Baylarov

Cybercrime has many forms, the most common of which is theft and fraud. Aspiring cybercriminals may begin with off-the-shelf malware or phishing kits and run amateur, but profitable, campaigns. Banking Trojans were the next step up, which intercept and manipulate connections during online banking procedures for exploitation and wire fraud. Several infamous groups that graduated […]

State-sponsored groups and cybercriminal gangs continue to benefit from the global confusion and concern surrounding the coronavirus. Due to the contagious nature of the virus it is causing more and more people to work from home, dramatically increasing the threat surface with potential victims leaving home devices unprotected by corporate detection systems. The World Health […]

The Beer Farmers recently launched a geo-location OSINT challenge, offering a mystery prize to the first person who could locate them. With the clock ticking, I decided to test my OSINT skills and see just how challenging it would be to track them down. I examined the image closely, looking for any clues. The first […]

I was recently introduced to an interesting feature of urlscan.io that allows you to search for phishing pages using image hashes. I quickly realized the potential power of this tool. A hash, by definition, is a unique numerical fingerprint created from the total sum of a file’s components. Hashing a file involves using an algorithm […]

For the majority of the time, malware is a serious problem, and its creation is sponsored by organised crime syndicates and nation states looking to commit cyberespionage and wage cyberwar. However, there are some malware that are just funny, and its developers took more care over how to annoy a victim than to just do […]