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F-Secure Labs Blog
labsblog.f-secure.com · Company blog · on HN since 2015
F-Secure's research team writes about malware, nation-state espionage, disinformation operations and social network analysis.
What HN saysHN links it for technical follow-ups on the Petya outbreak, along with posts on malware delivery channels and election hacking.
20HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections2 people · 96 points · first shared 2019 · 54 comments on HN
- 2Sockpuppies2 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Eternal petya from a developers perspective2 people · first shared 2017
- 4Petya: “I Want to Believe”1 people · 168 points · first shared 2017 · 67 comments on HN
- 5Uncovering a network of “adult dating” spam accounts on Twitter1 people · 120 points · first shared 2018 · 31 comments on HN
- 6The Dukes: 7 years of Russian cyber-espionage1 people · 53 points · first shared 2015 · 10 comments on HN
- 7Why Social Network Analysis Is Important1 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8Linux.Encoder.1: We Are Accept Only Bitcoins (ransomware)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Halloween RAT: NanoCore Served via PageFair Service1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10Pr0nbots2: Revenge of the Pr0nbots1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Analysis of Brexit-Centric Twitter Activity1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Facebook Phishing Targeted iOS and Android Users1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Super Awesome Fuzzing, Part One1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14IoT_Reaper overview1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Trump-Hating South Americans Hacked HBO1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
planetix · 2016-12-10
So what's the business of this company and its CEO? Other than trying to collect subscribers to his blog.
Also really confusing name considering there's the Finnish security company called F-Secure who also have a technical blog:
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/
And now also run a security course in Helsinki University: http://mooc.fi/courses/2016/cybersecurity/
etiam · 2017-06-30
The followup has arrived:
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2017/06/30/eternal-petya-from-a-develope…
dredmorbius · 2018-04-12
05 · 2016-04-27
Not a problem if you use iOS9: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2015/09/09/apple-ios-9-security-features…
For Android, you can root it and disable USB host functions when locked.