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Meet David Elliott: SBT’s Principal Defensive Content Engineer Forging Cybersecurity Mastery
Duncan Whitley 29/10/2025

Meet David Elliott: SBT’s Principal Defensive Content Engineer Forging Cybersecurity Mastery

Step into the world of David Elliott, Security Blue Team’s Principal Defensive Content Engineer, whose creative flair and technical expertise shape cutting-edge cybersecurity training. From building realistic scenarios to mentoring talent, David’s work strengthens SBT’s technical team, helping clients master cyber defences. Dive into his story, from RAF roots to...

The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Why Mental Health Matters
Reema Shah 10/10/2025

The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Why Mental Health Matters

Cybersecurity professionals face unique pressures: relentless threats, constant vigilance, and the emotional toll of protecting others. This blog explores how factors like burnout, alert fatigue, imposter syndrome, and isolation impact mental health, while offering strategies for resilience. It also introduces a free Security Blue Team course designed to help individuals...

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Security Blue Team’s Global Connect: A Chilly Team Adventure in Lapland
Duncan Whitley 14/03/2025

Security Blue Team’s Global Connect: A Chilly Team Adventure in Lapland

Picture a team diving into a winter wonderland where snowmobiles hunt the Northern Lights, huskies charge through snowy trails, and drinks come in glasses chiseled from ice. That’s what SBT got up to during our annual Global Connect, a company get-together that took us from Stockholm to the icy wilds...

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.