Ryan Westman

Canada’s Draft Cybersecurity Legislation Must Be Resurrected The goal was to create a standard to ensure key industries were properly addressing the risk from cyberthreats, foreign and domestic.

"Whichever party forms the government later this year, a top priority must be resurrecting Bill #C-26 with these additions. It should be a priority within the next government’s first 100 days." 🇨🇦

#canpoli #cybersecurity #cdnpoli

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Unraveling the Many Stages and Techniques Used by RedCurl/EarthKapre… Learn more about how RedCurl/EarthKapre APT performs reconnaissance and espionage and get security recommendations from our Threat Response Unit (TRU) to…

Check out the latest blog from the team on #earthkapre #redcurl #apt #threatintelligence 🇷🇺

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IOCs: github.com/eSentire/ioc...

Ongoing Email Bombing Campaigns leading to Remote Access and… The Threat In recent weeks, eSentire has observed multiple Email Bombing attacks, which involve threat actors using phishing techniques to gain remote…

Seeing a lot of 📤💣
Check out our latest advisory here:
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#threatintelligence #threathunting #ransomware

This past summer I got to sit down with #heimdal's security publisher to talk #threatintelligence

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MintsLoader: StealC and BOINC Delivery In early January 2025, the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) identified an ongoing campaign involving MintsLoader delivering second stage payloads like…

Check out the teams latest blog on #MintsLoader #StealC #BOINC

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#IOCs here: github.com/eSentire/ioc...

With respect to yesterday #FES debacle, the one thing that is notable from a #cyber perspective is that if the #LPC Government does end up collapsing and an election is called #billc26 could die on the floor of the house #canpoli

Russia arrests ransomware attacker Wazawaka The US Department of Justice is offering a $10 million reward for Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev.

Wazawaka picked up in Russia. Involved in ransomware attacks on schools, hospitals, and DC police. Wouldn’t get too excited about extradition just yet. www.yahoo.com/tech/russia-...

What a game!

Bored BeaverTail Yacht Club – A Lazarus Lure Learn more about the BeaverTail malware, and get security recommendations from our Threat Response Unit (TRU) to protect your business from this cyber…

Check out our blogs on incidents we detected and responded to with #malware leveraged in the #contagiousinterview campaigns attributed to #DPRK #threatactors #threatintel

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Had a great time last week @cyberwarcon.bsky.social thanks for a great event as always @hultquist.bsky.social #threatintelligence

We try to be! 🇨🇦

Looking forward to @cyberwarcon.bsky.social tomorrow!

Had a great time earlier this year talking #deepfakes and #disinformation at ILTACON

If you're interested in my recommendations on how to better protect Canada's #economy check out my research here: tinyurl.com/42mcjmcd
#canpoli

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to sit down with @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social
to discuss the #nationalsecurity challenges 🇨🇦 faces from #cyberattacks and specifically #ransomware. Check out the interview here: tinyurl.com/4rpfvty4 & tinyurl.com/avefr3xj

For the second day in a row, people bring flowers to the Russian Consulate in Toronto, to mourn Alexey Navalny. Everyone is crying

Proud of the hard work done by the team completing this deep dive on #batloader & #fakebat

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Looking forward to a new #toque and seeing folks next week at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social! #Cyberwarcon

State of the world right now. At least it feels that way.

I think one of the things that's been shown with the denialism over Hamas atrocities is that AI disinformation fears are, oddly, overblown - because people will disbelieve things they don't want to believe *anyway.* AI is just an excuse.

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