Some of the research on my blog has been published in the news, or spoken about at conferences by either myself or others. Below, a list is given where the most recent occurrences are listed at the top and are sorted based on the year. Note that some entries consist of more than one hyperlink, as there are more relevant links to share. News articles are linked with their original title.
2021
- Security Highlight #3 by Thomas Roccia refers to my DotNet debugging article
- LeMagIT: “Ransomware : Avaddon rend les clés (à défaut de l’argent)”
- Joined the Botconf programme comittee
- Two of the Telegram groups I co-administer were mentioned by SentinelOne in their article about the Top 10 Cybersecurity Telegram groups you should join
- The Daily Swig: “Magecart attacks in 2021: Cat-and-mouse game continues between cybercrooks, researchers, law enforcement”
2020
- HackFestCA Talk: “The ReZer0 loader: a malicious Dot Net based loader with a flaw”
- ZDNet France: “Magecart : Suivre le script”
- BotConf2020 Talk: Hunting MageCart Skimmers
- HackYeah.pl 2020 Talk: Effectively and efficiently reversing Android applications using AndroidProjectCreator
- Referenced by Hatching Triage for the publication of my open-source Triage API client in Java
- Fontys Universities Virtual Workshop: An Introduction To Malware Analysis
- My review of the Ghidra Book (published by No Starch Press) got listed on the official website
- Confidence-Conference 2020 Talk: AndroidProjectCreator and the published recording
- LeMagIt: “Les loaders, ces maliciels furtifs utilisés pour déployer des charges utiles élaborées”
- AndroidProjectCreator got added to Remnux
- Got noted in ClamAV’s blog for helping out with the analysis
- Created challenges for HackFest’s iHack2020
- Guest lectures about Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting at the Haagse Hogeschool’s Cyber Security Engineering Master’s
- GBHackers: “Researcher Uncovered 1,236 Websites Infected with Credit Card Data Stealing Skimmer”
- ADSLZone: “19 webs españolas y 1200 en el mundo pueden robar tu tarjeta”
- SANS Stormcast 13 May 2020: “MSFT / Adobe Patches; Exposed Firebase; Magecart Sightings; Glitter vs #thunderspy; @Libranalysis“
- DailyMail UK: “Researcher detects malware designed to steal credit card information on more than 1,200 online stores”
- Security Affairs: “Expert found 1,236 websites infected with Magecart e-skimmer”
- MuySeguridad: “Detectadas más de 1.200 tiendas online afectadas por un skimmer”
- Security.nl: “1200 webshops getroffen door malware die creditcardgegevens steelt”
- BleepingComputer: “Researcher finds 1,236 domains infected with credit card stealers”
- BleepingComputer: “New Coronavirus screenlocker malware is extremely annoying”
- ZDNet France: “Ransomware : si vous ne communiquez pas, les attaquants le feront”
- Amsterdam 2020 Technical Colloquium Talk: Hunting MageCart
- VIPRE: Digital Credit Card Skimmers on the Rise in 2020
- CERT-EU: “Credit-card web-skimminginfections can last several months”
- Cyber Analytics: “Threat group infects at least 40 new websites”
- InfoSecurity Magazine: “Web Owners Ignore Alerts as Magecart Hits 40 More Sites”
- IT World Canada: “Cyber Security Today – PayPal hit by scam, online businesses ignore threats, how hacking email spreads threats and more”
- BleepingComputer: “Credit Card Skimmer Running on 13 Sites, Despite Notification”
- SCMagazine: “Magecart Group 12 named as actor behind Olympic ticket POS attack”
- Bleeping Computer: “Credit Card Skimmer Found on Nine Sites, Researchers Ignored”
- TechNadu: “Websites Infected with Card-Skimming JavaScript Fail to Respond to Warnings”
- ThreatPost: “Magecart Gang Attacks Olympic Ticket Reseller and Survival Food Sites”
- RiskIQ: “Magecart Group 12’s Latest: Actors Behind Cyberattacks on Olympics Ticket Re-sellers Deftly Swapped Domains to Continue Campaign”
- PC Risk: “MageCart Gang Compromises Olympic Ticket Site and Others”
- Security.nl: “Malware steelt creditcardgegevens van klanten webwinkels”
- ZDNet: “Magecart group jumps from Olympic ticket website to new wave of e-commerce shops”
- NLSecure[ID] Talk: Android Banking Malware
- Bit Guardian: “Malware hits Euro Cup and Olympics Ticket Reseller”
- Biztonságportál: “Adatokat lopott egy olimpiai jegyeket értékesítő oldal”
- Clean-Malware: “Yet another MageCart attack: this time to Olympic Ticket sites”
- GDPR Report: “Ticket resellers struck by MageCart”
- Tweakers: “Twee marktplaatsen voor sportwedstrijdkaarten geïnfecteerd met creditcardskimmer”
- Security.nl: “Malware op marktplaats voor Olympische tickets stal creditcarddata”
- Bleeping Computer: “Euro Cup and Olympics Ticket Reseller Hit by MageCart”
2019
- 36C3 Lightning Talk: Malware Research Group on Telegram
- 36C3 Lightning Talk: Binary Analysis Course
- BotConf2019 Lightning Talk: AndroidProjectCreator
- BotConf2019 Workshop: Static Android Malware Analysis
- Hackfest 2019 CTF Challenge
- Le Comptoir Sécu: “SECHebdo – 5 Novembre 2019”
- Fontys Universities Workshop: An introduction into reverse engineering
- PagedOut! Issue #1: Binary Analysis Course
- PagedOut! Issue #1: AndroidProjectCreator
- Fortinet mentions AndroidProjectCreator: BianLian: A New Wave Emerges
- Emerce Next Round Table: Threat Intelligence and Red Teaming
- ISSA NL Talk: An introduction to Threat Intelligence
- ABN AMRO CISO Conference Talk: An Introduction To Android Malware Analysis
2017
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