Hello, welcome to the Monday, April 27th, 2020 edition of the Sandsenet Storms and us Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich.

And then I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Got a quick note from DDI on Friday about where do you find all of those Malware samples like the ones that he is

writing about in his diaries. Now, Virus Total, of course, is probably sort of the ultimate

repository of Malware and will create service in that you can easily, for example, search

for Malver. But typically to download Malware, well, you have to pay with

Virus Total and it's pretty expensive to sort of get their full service. Now, there are other

sites that are popping up that are offering Malware downloads for free. Malver Bazaar is one

that DDA likes and uses. You just give it essentially

the hash and it will tell you if it has the malware available and allows you to download it.

MalwareBazaar is run by Abuse.CH, an organization that has offered a number of very useful free services. So pretty much a trustworthy

source. Of course, remember, you are downloading fully functional malware here. So better be

careful what you are doing. Also, in order to upload malware to Malware Bazaar, well, you can only

upload what's actually known malware.ar, well, you can only upload what's actually

known malware. With Virus Total, you sometimes actually run into benign documents that

users uploaded for whatever reason, maybe because it was somewhat suspicious, but not everything

in Virus Total is necessarily matter.

And the Canadian Internet Registry Authority, Kaira,

that's essentially the organization responsible for the dot-CA top-level domain,

is rolling out what they're calling Canadian Shield,

which is essentially a DNS over HDPS service that's

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