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Threat researcher, malware analysis, RE, incident response, with some old school forensics and CTF floundering. Apologetic ginger.
Jan 11, 2018 11 tweets 3 min read
It's been two years now since the whole Forbes-malware "thing", and I've found it hard to move on. It left a mark on me and how I participate online, for sure. I posted about it (ghettoforensics.com/2016/03/of-mal…), but there's a few things that weren't publicly mentioned. 1/10 A quick recap: Forbes article asks users to disable ad-blocker to view page. I did, loaded page, and it popped up an ad to a suspicious Java download page. Page was benign, but it struck me as funny so I took a screenshot and made a glib comment of "oh noes malware". 2/10