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How Cybersecurity Affects Customer Trust (And What Companies Can Do About It)
Duncan Whitley 17/04/2025

How Cybersecurity Affects Customer Trust (And What Companies Can Do About It)

Let’s be real: nobody likes thinking about cybersecurity until something goes sideways. But here’s the kicker: when it does, it’s not just your IT crew sweating bullets. Your customers feel it too, and how you handle it can make or break their trust in you. So, let’s unpack why cybersecurity...

Faces of SBT: Meet Jake and Nathaniel, Our Sales Specialists
Duncan Whitley 01/04/2025

Faces of SBT: Meet Jake and Nathaniel, Our Sales Specialists

At Security Blue Team (SBT), our sales team connects prospective clients with top-tier cybersecurity training, and today we’re shining a light on two of our sales specialists, Jake Knight and Nathaniel Hutchinson.

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JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild

This blog series will explore Security Blue Team's adventure into the reverse engineering of a novel SmartLoader malware variant. This malware was discovered during our research into Belsen Group's high-profile FortiGate leak. This leak was advertised as containing a list of affected companies with associated configuration data from their FortiGate...

JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader

We need a suitable environment to detonate the malware in a repeatable fashion. This environment should allow us to substitute our mock APIs and host to ensure the malware operates as close to real as possible.

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs
Luis Suastegui 21/02/2025

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs

The Black Basta ransomware gang recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons when someone using the online handle “ExploitWhispers” shared internal chat logs of the group with the public — close to a year’s worth of messages in a JSON file.

GitHub & Discord's Secret File Locker: A Hacker's Playground?
Malik Girondin 21/02/2025

GitHub & Discord's Secret File Locker: A Hacker's Playground?

This write-up is a POC (Proof of Concept) to demonstrate a potential vulnerability in GitHub and Discord that can be exploited. You are free to verify the issue, as we encourage the developers at GitHub and Discord to properly secure their systems to lower the risk of an exploit.

Faces of SBT: Trevor, Director of Cloud Services
Melissa Boyle 22/01/2025

Faces of SBT: Trevor, Director of Cloud Services

Welcome to our first Faces of SBT blog post, where we’ll be showcasing a member of our team and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at SBT. First up is Trevor, our Director of Cloud Services.