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mikkohypponenon Tactical Drone Factory [video]

Sensofusion Tactical Drone Factory manufactures interceptors to defend against long-range military drones such as Shaheds (Youtube Short)

mikkohypponenon Walkthrough at the drone defence company Sensofusion [video]

Counter-UAS research, development & manufacturing in Finland.

mikkohypponenon After Fighting Malware for Decades, Cybersecurity Vet Now Hacking Drones

Can confirm, am Hyppönen.

mikkohypponenon Brain: PC virus [audio]

Thanks man! There's also a physical copy of Brain.A on display in Helsinki at http://museumofmalware.art

mikkohypponenon Black Hat USA 2025 Keynote – Mikko Hypponen – Three Decades in Cybersecurit [video]

My long term life goal was to do a keynote in all three: DEF CON, RSA and Black Hat. With this talk, I reached that goal - on my last week of employment in the cybersecurity industry. I hope you liked the video.

-- Mikko

mikkohypponenon DEF CON Talk: Building a Malware Museum [video]

From DEF CON 33 (August 2025)

mikkohypponenon Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones

Can confirm.

mikkohypponenon Mikko Hypponen Leaves Anti-Malware Industry to Fight Against Drones

Can confirm, am Hypponen.

More here: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/update/urn:li:activity:...

mikkohypponenon How the NSA betrayed the trust – time to act – Mikko Hypponen (2013) [video]

AMA, am Hyppönen.

mikkohypponenon Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

Can confirm.

mikkohypponenon One.one.one.one

You can ping one.one.one.one and it resolves to 1.1.1.1.

mikkohypponenon Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable.

mikkohypponenon Keynote: Robot vs. Robot – Mikko Hypponen [video]

I think it was pretty good.

mikkohypponenon F-secure lab 20 years ago

Sorry about the cables.

mikkohypponenon Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

Correct, it's a PE file.

mikkohypponenon Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

Author here. I've been running Windows since 3.0 and I copy my old tool folders with me whenever I change machines or upgrade the OS. This GZIP.EXE is the oldest EXE I have in my \ntbin tool folder that still works. The folder has 579 EXE files.

mikkohypponenon Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

Some stuff works fine. See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692552661374005450

mikkohypponenon TROOPERS23: Keynote – Mikko Hyppönen

Troopers is a great event. In the beginning of my talk, I'm referring to a photo the organizers showed just before my talk. This is the photo: https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1686039840788299777

mikkohypponenon I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag (1993)

How are going to find similar, historic one-offs that are made today, in 30 years time? Today they are made on Slack, Discord and Signal. No archive.

mikkohypponenon 30 years ago; Marc Andreessen proposed the <img> HTML tag

This turned out to be a useful change.

mikkohypponenon Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France

Chapter from my book, about Case Vastaamo: https://ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com/s/vastaamo_excerpt.pdf

mikkohypponenon Fornite maker Epic Games settles child privacy, 'dark patterns' cases for $520B

Abbreviating ’MILLION’ is hard. See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1221011227066929155

mikkohypponenon Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call

But was it a deepfake or not? This is unprecedented if it was.

mikkohypponenon Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call

Big if true. If this is real, is it the first confirmed malicious use of realtime interactive video deepfake?

mikkohypponenon HN comment April 9, 2012: Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022

Can confirm.

mikkohypponenon In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

Full content can be read via researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/W-Angus-Wallace/publica...

mikkohypponenon Copy Protection in Modern Microcontrollers (2001)

Some examples of companies working in MCU Break:

https://itresearch.en.ecplaza.net/

https://www.ecvv.com/product/2944823.html

https://icchip.weebly.com/

mikkohypponenon Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users

See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1378701810815352833

mikkohypponenon Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

*Considering most people in the world use Android.

mikkohypponenon The Malware Museum

I believe I have a full collection of the 40Hex zines. Maybe I should add them to this archive.