{"id":20328,"date":"2022-10-11T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/news-14061\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:21:01","slug":"news-14061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/news-14061\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos researchers win Virus Bulletin technical research award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jag.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:34:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content lg:prose-lg mx-auto prose max-w-4xl\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\">\n<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to announce that Sophos Senior Threat Researchers Jagadeesh Chandraiah and Xinran Wu have been presented with the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/conference\/peter-szor-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P\u00e9ter Sz\u0151r Award<\/a> by Virus Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes the best technical research of the year and is voted on by the Virus Bulletin Advisory Board and team members.<\/p>\n<p>Chandraiah and Wu took home the 2022 award for their work on CryptoRom Bitcoin fraud, a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/tag\/cryptorom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multi-part series<\/a> that culminated with the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/03\/16\/cryptorom-bitcoin-swindlers-continue-to-target-vulnerable-iphone-and-android-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CryptoRom Bitcoin swindlers continue to target vulnerable iPhone and Android users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VRflwyCy4R\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/03\/16\/cryptorom-bitcoin-swindlers-continue-to-target-vulnerable-iphone-and-android-users\/\">CryptoRom Bitcoin swindlers continue to target vulnerable iPhone and Android users<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"\" title=\"&#8220;CryptoRom Bitcoin swindlers continue to target vulnerable iPhone and Android users&#8221; &#8212; Sophos News\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/03\/16\/cryptorom-bitcoin-swindlers-continue-to-target-vulnerable-iphone-and-android-users\/embed\/#?secret=mwOVo9Xm4K#?secret=VRflwyCy4R\" data-secret=\"VRflwyCy4R\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The paper details the abuse of the iOS TestFlight app and the iOS WebClip feature, along with devious social engineering and lookalike finance apps &#8211; all of which combined for repeated theft from unsuspecting victims.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/03\/16\/cryptorom-bitcoin-swindlers-continue-to-target-vulnerable-iphone-and-android-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This style of cyber-fraud, known as sha zhu pan (\u6740\u732a\u76d8)\u2014literally \u201cpig butchering plate\u201d\u2014is a well-organized, syndicated scam operation that uses a combination of often romance-centered social engineering and fraudulent financial applications and websites to ensnare victims and steal their savings after gaining their confidence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to Jagadeesh and Xinran for their excellent work! You can read the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/03\/16\/cryptorom-bitcoin-swindlers-continue-to-target-vulnerable-iphone-and-android-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and learn more about the P\u00e9ter Sz\u0151r Award <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virusbulletin.com\/conference\/peter-szor-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/10\/11\/sophos-researchers-win-virus-bulletin-technical-research-award\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/sophos\/dgdY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jag.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:34:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prestigious P\u00e9ter Sz\u0151r Award is presented at Virus Bulletin for the best technical research of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10377],"tags":[10392,25390,24562],"class_list":["post-20328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sophos","tag-awards","tag-cryptorom","tag-products-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}