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Matrix Cup: Cultivating Top Hacking Talent, Keeping Close Hold on Results
Matrix Cup aligns with China’s strategy to enhance its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities by increasing the volume of vulnerabilities available…
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Ransom-War Part 4b: Ransomware Diplomacy
Short-lived US-Russian “cyber-détente” of 2021-2022: less an effort to cooperate against cybercrime than an effort to use cybercriminals as a bargaining…
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RansomWar Part 4a: CyberCriminals as “Combat Resource” and Bargaining Chip
Russian ransomware actors are “hybrids”: criminals but also IT talent with a fearsome reputation. Why crack down when you can exploit them as a “combat…
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i-SOON: Another Company in the APT41 Network
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Front Company or Real Business in China’s Cyber Operations
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i-SOON: Kicking off the Year of the Dragon with Good Luck … or Not
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i-SOON: “Significant Superpower” or Just Getting the Job Done?
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i-SOON Toolkit: What is “TZ”?
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APT41’s Reconnaissance Techniques and Toolkit: Nmap and What Else?
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Enjoy Your July 4 Holiday if You Celebrate
The Natto Team takes this week off to spend some time with family and friends. We will continue our weekly Natto Thoughts newsletter next week. Thank…
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Who Has the Best Scanning Tools in China?
Recent “China Cybersecurity Industry Panorama” gives one assessment of China’s top scanning companies.
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Ransom-War Part 3: Inflict Maximum Damage
Dmitry Medvedev’s June 13 call to do “maximum harm” to Western infrastructure is not so new: Russian strategists have thought about using ransomware to…
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Who is Volt Typhoon? A State-sponsored Actor? Or Dark Power?
Cyber attribution is complicated. After all the publicity about Volt Typhoon as a Chinese state hacking group, we have more questions than answers.
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APT41’s Reconnaissance Techniques and Toolkit: Nmap and What Else?
APT41 and other Chinese malicious cyber actors can choose from numerous reconnaissance tools developed in China and abroad, including those developed…
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Front Company or Real Business in China’s Cyber Operations
Distinguishing whether entities are front companies or real businesses can help us understand the strategy, scalability, and persistency of Chinese…
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Ransom-War, Part 2b: Profits Versus Patriotism
Russian Cybercriminals face tension between making money, serving the motherland, and avoiding prison time
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Ransom-War, Part 2a: Extortion Entrepreneurs and Their Patriotic Obligations
Russian ransomware actors and other cybercriminals are business people first, but they have to do their duty to the motherland
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Ransom-War: Russian Extortion Operations as Hybrid Warfare, Part One
Some ransomware attacks serve both financial and political motives and may play a role in Russia's ongoing "hybrid warfare" against the West
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