Tyler Moffitt

Tyler Moffitt

Tyler Moffitt is a Senior Threat Research Analyst with Webroot, Inc. He has been with Webroot since 2010 working as a key member of the Threat Research team, immersed deep within the world of malware and antimalware. Tyler is focused on improving the customer experience through his work directly with malware samples, creating antimalware intelligence, writing blogs, and testing in-house tools. Tyler has a passion for hands on learning and likes to spend his time gathering samples from the wild to test and improve Webroot capabilities to handle the latest malware threats.


FBI says to just pay the ransom

October 28, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

We all know cryptolocker and we all know the toll it’s taken on many individuals and companies. While the original cryptolocker has been shut down since FBI operation Tovar it has not stalled…read more

ORX Locker

September 10, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

Only a month has gone by since the last RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) came to light. It looks this new business model that was first introduced by TOX a few months ago…read more

Compromising Windows via Windows Update Drivers

August 24, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

  While at Blackhat 2015, I saw a very interesting presentation on compromising the Windows Update service (“WSUSpect – Compromising The Windows Enterprise Via Windows Update” – Paul Stone & Alex Chapman). The…read more

Encryptor RaaS (Ransomware as a Service)

July 28, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

A new ransomware has emerged and its very similar to tox as it is created for hackers to easily design encrypting ransomware payloads to distrube from their botnets. Since the creator of Tox was selling…read more

Rombertik

May 6, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

Yesterday in the news we saw a huge spike in the interest of the Rombertik malware. Rombertik infiltrates the computer through email phishing attacks that drop as a .scr screen saver executable that contains the malware that…read more

AlphaCrypt

May 4, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

We’ve encountered yet another encrypting ransomware variant and at this point it’s expected since the scam has exploaded in popularity since it’s inception in late 2013. This one has a GUI that is almost…read more

The Threat Landscape is Expanding. Are You Ready for it?

March 3, 2015By Tyler Moffitt

This blog is syndicated from the LabTech Software Blog: http://www.labtechsoftware.com/blog/antivirus-and-anti-malware-tips/ Think your clients are covered? Think again. This year’s epic flu season isn’t relegated to humans alone. The burgeoning threat landscape is better equipped…read more

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