I found the juxtaposition of stories on the Talos blog over the past week-plus kind of funny.
On one hand, we had a massive story about Arid Viper, a Middle Eastern threat actor spreading spyware, one of the most dangerous types of malware out there right now, operating out of Gaza no less.
Then, we had “Roblox,” a children’s video game (which I’ve written about multiple times and I maintain was the OG metaverse).
The scale of these attacks is obviously vastly different. Spyware is being used across the globe to monitor some of the most vulnerable activists, journalists and government officials to track their physical movement.
Meanwhile, “Roblox” players are losing money in a game where the characters look like vague LEGO minifigure knockoffs.
And the blog homepage is just a perfect encapsulation of how cybersecurity means more than just blocking malware. It can mean teaching your children how to stay safe when they go online, how to properly lock down your login credentials and just being smart at spotting scams.
But it can also have global implications in areas where there is a global military conflict, just like we’ve written about countless times in Ukraine.
I would never call one security researcher’s work more “important” than another's — everyone in the security community works extremely hard to keep the internet safe, no matter what company you work for or what your area of expertise is. Tiago from our Outreach team who wrote about the “Roblox” scams has certainly done way more malware research beyond this. But it’s clear that the real-w ..
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