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FORENSIC ANALYSIS
- Belkasoft
Media files forensics with Belkasoft X - Heather Mahalik at Cellebrite
- Dan Maunz at Cisco
New Nexus Forensic Guide - Dr. Brian Carrier at Cyber Triage
Cyber Triage on Azure: DFIR in the Cloud - Digital Forensics Myanmar
- Dr. Neal Krawetz at ‘The Hacker Factor Blog’
Beyond the Skyline - Elcomsoft
- Erik Hjelmvik at Netresec
Open .ETL Files with NetworkMiner and CapLoader - Robert Graham at Errata Security
Debunking: that Jones Alfa-Trump report - Forensafe
- Ian Whiffin at DoubleBlak
Message Reactions - Nicole Fishbein at Intezer
Conducting Digital Forensics Incident Response (DFIR) on an Infected GitLab Server - Karlo Licudine at AccidentalRebel
- Magnet Forensics
Anatomy of a Workplace Harassment Investigation - Alexander Jäger at Open Source DFIR
Use EVTX files on VirusTotal with Timesketch and Sigma (Part1) - Oxygen Forensics
Extraction of locked LG devices in Oxygen Forensic® Detective - Security Onion
- Quick Malware Analysis: SquirrelWaffle, Qakbot, and CobaltStrike pcap from 2021-10-04
- Quick Malware Analysis: SystemBC and CobaltStrike pcap from 2021-02-01
- Quick Malware Analysis: Pascholotto Email and Malware pcap from 2021-02-19
- Quick Malware Analysis: October 2021 Forensic Challenge – Part 1 of 3
- Quick Malware Analysis: October 2021 Forensic Challenge – Part 3 of 3
- Quick Malware Analysis: October 2021 Forensic Challenge – Part 2 of 3
- The DFIR Report
From Zero to Domain Admin - ZecOps
How iOS Malware Can Spy on Users Silently
THREAT INTELLIGENCE/HUNTING
- Anomali
Anomali Cyber Watch: Russian Intelligence Targets IT Providers, Malspam Abuses Squid Games, Another npm Library Compromise, and More - Blackberry
- CERT-FR
Rapport Menaces Et Incidents Du Cert-fr - Check Point Research
- Cisco’s Talos
- Eric Loui and Josh Reynolds at CrowdStrike
CARBON SPIDER Embraces Big Game Hunting, Part 2 - Curated Intelligence
Tracking the planet with Pulsedive - Cybereason
What Are the Most Common Attack Vectors for Ransomware? - William Thomas at Cyjax
Cyjax research sees TeamTNT added to Mitre ATT&CK framework - Oakley Cox at Darktrace
Living off the Land: How hackers blend into your environment - EclecticIQ
Ransomware 3 – Countering the Ransomware Threat When There Is No Silver Bullet - Emanuele De Lucia
The BigBoss Rules: Something about one of the Uroburos’ RPC-based backdoors - Flashpoint
- Andrey Zhdanov at Group-IB
The Darker Things - Jack Crook at ‘DFIR and Threat Hunting’
Measuring User Behavior - Malwarebytes Labs
- Marcus Edmonson at ‘Data Analytics & Security’
Detecting mshta in a Home Lab - Microsoft 365 Security
Revisiting Constrained Delegation - Frank Duff at MITRE-Engenuity
Introducing ATT&CK Evaluations Trials: First Up, Deception - Nathali Cano at Scythe
SCYTHE Presents: Simplifying the MITRE ATT&CK Framework - Didier Stevens at NVISO Labs
Cobalt Strike: Using Process Memory To Decrypt Traffic – Part 3 - Pete Cowman at Hatching
MacOS, TA505 and Other Family Detections - Selena Larson, Sam Scholten and Timothy Kromphardt at Proofpoint
Caught Beneath the Landline: A 411 on Telephone Oriented Attack Delivery - Red Siege Information Security
Attacking SAML implementations - RiskIQ
The Vagabon Kit Highlights ‘Frankenstein’ Trend in Phishing - Dean Parsons at SANS
ICS Threat Hunting: “They’re Shootin’ at the Lights!” – PART 2 - SANS Internet Storm Center
- Sysinternals: Autoruns and Sysmon updates, (Sun, Oct 31st)
- Video: Phishing ZIP With Malformed Filename, (Sun, Oct 31st)
- Revisiting BrakTooth: Two Months Later, (Mon, Nov 1st)
- October 2021 Forensic Contest: Answers and Analysis, (Thu, Nov 4th)
- Xmount for Disk Images, (Thu, Nov 4th)
- Decrypting Cobalt Strike Traffic With Keys Extracted From Process Memory, (Sat, Nov 6th)
- Video: Decrypting Cobalt Strike Traffic With Keys Extracted From Process Memory, (Sun, Nov 7th)
- Javier Bachiller at Security Art Work
Purple Team ¿Pero esto que és? (Parte II). Threat Intelligence - Security Investigation
- Scott J Roberts
Getting Started with Synapse - Nick Tausek at Swimlane
Building Best-of-Both-Worlds Automation and Threat Intel With Swimlane and VirusTotal – Part One - Symantec Enterprise
BlackMatter: New Data Exfiltration Tool Used in Attacks - Team Cymru
Webinject Panel Administration: A Vantage Point into Multiple Threat Actor Campaigns - Erin Sindelar at Trend Micro
Ransomware Negotiation Scenarios: What to Expect - Vicente Díaz at VirusTotal
Automate and Augment Case Management, Threat Intelligence and Enrichment - Zolder B.V.
Detecting MFASweep using Azure Sentinel
UPCOMING WEBINARS/CONFERENCES
- Lior Div and Sam Curry at Cybereason
Webinar November 18th: Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Dave Gruber, Doug Cahill, and James Campbell at Cado Security
Traditional DFIR Methods = Not Fit For Cloud - Elan at DFIR Diva
DFIR Related Events for Beginners – November, 2021 - Magnet Forensics
Rapid Triage for Mac with Magnet OUTRIDER - Securizame
Noticias Securízame – Eventos Y Formación De Noviembre 2021
PRESENTATIONS/PODCASTS
- Archan Choudhury at BlackPerl
Windows Forensics Analysis, Memory Forensics- Part1, Diwali GiveAway - Belkasoft
Dealing with encryption—10th episode of BelkaTalk on DFIR - Black Hills Information Security
- Breaking Badness
101. Ransomware and Malware and Justice, Oh My! - Cellebrite
- Cloud Security Podcast by Google
EP41 Beyond Phishing: Email Security Isn’t Solved - Joshua I. James at DFIRScience
- Didier Stevens
- Digital Forensic Survival Podcast
DFSP # 298 – Mac Forensics with SUMURI - Dump-Guy Trickster
Introduction to Invoke-DetectItEasy PowerShell Module - Hasherezade
HollowsHunter detecting ShellcodeFluctuation PoC - InfoSec_Bret
Intel 101 – Part 03 – FINAL - Justin Tolman at AccessData
FTK Feature Focus – Episode 28 – Mac Artifacts in System Summary - Magnet Forensics
- Nuix
2021 Nuix APAC Partner Awards - Paraben Corporation
- Ryan Tick
Automated triage collection at scale in AWS - SANS
- AC3 Threat Sightings: El Poder de la Observación
- Hunting backdoors in Active Directory Environment
- Compose Your Hunts With Reusable Knowledge and Share Your Huntbook With the Community
- Hunting and Scoping A Ransomware Attack
- Full Scholarship Cybersecurity Training With SANS
- The 14 Absolute Truths of Security
- Vulnerabilities and reports and metrics, oh my!
- CISSP Cram Session
- Cleaning Up Our Cyber Hygiene
- Security Onion
Security Onion on Security Weekly Episode 717 - Virus Bulletin
VB2021 localhost videos available on YouTube - Watson Infosec
ElasticXDR 7.15.1 Overview - Zeek in Action
MALWARE
- 0xdf hacks stuff
- Martin Chlumecký at Avast Threat Labs
DirtyMoe: Deployment - Harsh Patel and Zachary Bailey at Cofense
Spooky Ransomware Steals Past SEGs in Under 15 Minutes - Cyber Geeks
A detailed analysis of the STOP/Djvu Ransomware - Shaul Vilkomir-Preisman at Deep Instinct
Understanding the Windows JavaScript Threat Landscape - Xiaopeng Zhang at Fortinet
Deep Dive into a Fresh Variant of Snake Keylogger Malware - Igor Skochinsky at Hex Rays
Igor’s tip of the week #63: IDA installer command-line options - Dmitry Melikov at InQuest
Adults Only Malware Lures - Johannes Bader
Analysing TA551/Shathak Malspam With Binary Refinery - LockBoxx
Notes on Keyloggers - Mahmoud Morsy
- Malwarebytes Labs
- Marco Ramilli
CONTI Ransomware: Cheat Sheet - Marcus Edmonson at ‘Data Analytics & Security’
To Catch a Hacker in My Home Lab – Atreides - mr.d0x
Malapi - Red Alert
Threat Actor targeted attack against Finance and Investment industry - Aaron Gdanski and Limor Kessem at Security Intelligence
From Thanos to Prometheus: When Ransomware Encryption Goes Wrong - Pedro Tavares at Segurança Informática
Troystealer malware analysis - Dennis Schwarz at ZScaler
Spike in DanaBot Malware Activity
MISCELLANEOUS
- Marco Fontani at Amped
Summing Up: How Do I Convert, Play, Enhance, Annotate, and Export Video Evidence With a Single Tool? - Amina Zilic at Binalyze
The Tenth Step to Forensic Readiness: Legal review - Cassie Doemel at AboutDFIR
AboutDFIR Site Content Update 11/6/21 - Cellebrite
India’s DFIR Community Turns To Digital Intelligence Technology To Solve Their Toughest Cases - Paul Lee, Yuri Kramarz and Martin Lee at Cisco’s Talos
The features all Incident Response Plans need to have - Joshua I. James at DFIRScience
What job opportunities does digital forensics give me? - Michael Karsyan at Event Log Explorer blog
Setting up Windows to read events from remote computers over a local network. - Faith Opiyo at CyberSecFaith
Building my Home Lab part 4: deploying the domain controller and endpoints - Forensic Focus
- Todd Shipley on the Dark Net, and the Importance of Relationship-Building for Investigations
- PRNU Based Verification of Multi-Camera Smartphones
- How to Use Variable Motion Deblurring in Amped FIVE
- Get your dedicated FREE trial of Binalyze AIR up and running in just 2 mins!
- Work Smarter, Not Harder — Optimize Your System for Faster Forensic Processing
- Register For Webinar: Launching Binalyze Forensic Investigation Suite
- Towards Deep Fake Video Detection Using PRNU Based Method
- Josh Moulin
Creating a Digital Forensic Capability - Anne Campbell at Barracuda
Don’t pay the ransom: A three-step guide to ransomware protection - Kevin Pagano at Stark 4N6
Forensics StartMe Updates (11/1/2021) - Magnet Forensics
Meet the Magnet Forensics’ Training Team: Sean Boero - Amelia Albanese at Palo Alto Networks
Australia’s Response to the Rise of Ransomware - Tami Smith at ‘Pro Digital Forensic Consulting’
Popular Case Studies in Digital Forensics - Brittany Roberts at ADF
The Ultimate Checklist for Buying a Digital Forensics Tool - Ryan Campbell at ‘Security Soup’
Weekly News Roundup — October 31 to November 6 - SANS
- Doug Burks at Security Onion
New Security Onion 2 Training Available: Practical Analysis with Security Onion 2!
SOFTWARE UPDATES
- Berla
iVe Software v3.3.1 Release - Brim
v0.27.0 - Didier Stevens
- Elcomsoft
Elcomsoft System Recovery 8.0 – a forensically sound field analysis tool with write-blocking disk imaging - F-Response
F-Response 8.3.1.8 Released – Updates to Collect, Classic, and Windows 11 - Mike Cohen at Velocidex
Velociraptor 0.6.2 Release - Alisha Cales at Paraben Corporation
- Regipy
2.2.2 - Ahmed Khlief at Shells.Systems
APT-Hunter V2.0 : More than 200 use cases and new features - Velociraptor
Release 0.6.2 - Xways
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