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Matt Suiche

Cybersecurity Researcher

Hello! My name is Matt Suiche. I am an independent researcher, advisor, and investor. I previously served as the Head of Detection Engineering at Magnet Forensics. Our organization was passionately dedicated to justice and protecting the innocent, a mission we embarked on more intensely after the 2022 acquisition of my cybersecurity start-up, Comae Technologies.

My professional journey began as the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at CloudVolumes which was acquired by VMware (NASDAQ:VMW) in 2014, before founding Comae. In addition, I’m proud to have initiated the cybersecurity community project, OPCDE.

My life-long fascination with learning and understanding complex systems first led me to cybersecurity. My teenage years were spent immersed in reverse engineering, which ignited a profound curiosity about technology that continues to this day. I’ve since explored various fields including operating systems architecture, programming languages, virtualization, modern web application development, and generative art. Furthermore, I’ve delved into numerous domains such as privacy, surveillance, forensics, blockchain, and community development among others.

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WannaCry — Links to Lazarus Group

Potential​ links to North Korea have been found. 🔗Read More: Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 Code similarities are shared between a February 2017 sample of WannaCry and 2015 Contopee sample (previously attributed last year to Lazarus Group by Symantec) had been found. Initially, reported on Twitter by Google researcher Neel Mehta, I investigated further. Since then, this suspicion has been shared by Kaspersky too.

WannaCry — New Variants Detected!

One new wave stopped today but the worse is yet to come 🔗Read More: Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 @msuiche (Twitter) UPDATE: Latest development (15May): Attribution and links to Lazarus Group UPDATE2: — Decrypting files As a follow-up article on WannaCry, I will give a short brief about the new variants found in the wild, not for experimentation but on infected machines today. In short, one is a false positive some researchers uploaded to virustotal.

WannaCry — The largest ransom-ware infection in History

More than 70 countries are reported to be infected. 🔗Read More: Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — @msuiche (Twitter) UPDATE: Latest development (15May): Links to Lazarus Group UPDATE2: — Decrypting files IMPORTANT NOTE: Microsoft released an emergency patch (KB4012598)for unsupported version of Windows (Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008). APPLY NOW! NOTE2: On Sunday 14 May, We just stopped the second wave of attack by registering a second killswitch but this is temporary.