The “Internet of Everything” (also known as the Internet of Things) became one of the biggest technology buzzwords of 2013, as can easily be seen in Google Trends. This term refers to the increased digitisation of everyday objects – any new technology device is being designed with connectivity in mind, whether that device is a smart…
Read MoreRobert McArdle
Senior Threat Researcher
Like many security researchers, I see a lot of new malicious sites every week, far too many in fact. One thing that sets security researchers apart is that we can see a top-level domain (TLD) like .cc and recall instantly that it belongs to the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, with a tiny population,…
Read MoreEarlier, we published a blog post talking about the recent shut down of the Silk Road marketplace. There, we promised to release a new white paper looking at cybercrime activity on the Deep Web in more detail. This paper can now be found on our site here. While the Deep Web has often been uniquely associated…
Read MoreThe infamous Silk Road marketplace is probably the most well-known place online for anyone wanting to purchase all sorts of illegal goods – ranging from illicit drugs, to firearms and all the way up to hitmen-for-hire. Yesterday, after two and half years in operation, the site was shut down by the FBI and its owner…
Read MoreThe research on browser-based botnets presented during the recent Blackhat conference in Las Vegas touches on our previous study on the abuse of HTML5. Most importantly, it shows how a simple fake online ad can lead to formidable threats like a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In their briefing, Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen…
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