Well, as the title says; I am bringing out my dead. My dead blog that is. I have been away for a couple years and much has changed. I have progressed quite far now in my security field and have many new skills. I am hoping to share some of what I learn with you in what I hope will be an entertaining and educational way.
Progressing into malware analysis and will be sharing the results of that as far as samples I analyze and things I discover.
Also, have something to say about recent events. To start with; the 'SlingShot' campaing as discovered and named by Kaspersky. At a point earlier this month there was a report published by Kaspersky and it detailed activity targeting many Middle East Countries and some in Africa. It explained the hack was being done by hacking into Mikrotik routers. The main piece of malware being by the group has been dubbed Slingshot based on strings found by researchers.
Cyberscoop has now claimed that they have learned that Slingshot is actually and operation of the US military's Joint Special Operations Command which is a component of Special Operations and is aimed at members of terrorists organizations such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. The source that gave the information to Cyberscoop has expressed concern that the exposure of the campaign may result in both the loss of a valuable surveillance program and the endangerment of the lives of US soldiers.
Most likely the Slingshot infrastructure has been abandoned following the disclosure.
Who knows what the repercussions from this will be, only time will tell.
