Looking Into a Cyber-Attack Facilitator in the Netherlands
A small web hosting provider with servers in the Netherlands and Romania has been a hotbed of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT) since early 2015. Starting from May 2015 till today we counted over 100 serious cyber attacks that originated from servers of this small provider. Pawn Storm used the servers for at […] more…Lifting the veil on DeathStalker, a mercenary triumvirate
State-sponsored threat actors and sophisticated attacks are often in the spotlight. Indeed, their innovative techniques, advanced malware platforms and 0-day exploit chains capture our collective imagination. Yet these groups still aren’t likely to be a part of the risk model at most companies, nor should they be. Businesses today are faced with an array of […] more…Kids on the Web in 2020
Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, and children too, […] more…Kids on the Web in 2020
Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, and children too, […] more…Story of the year 2019: Cities under ransomware siege
Ransomware has been targeting the private sector for years now. Overall awareness of the need for security measures is growing, and cybercriminals are increasing the precision of their targeting to locate victims with security breaches in their defense systems. Looking back at the past three years, the share of users targeted with ransomware in the […] more…DarkUniverse – the mysterious APT framework #27
In April 2017, ShadowBrokers published their well-known ‘Lost in Translation’ leak, which, among other things, contained an interesting script that checked for traces of other APTs in the compromised system. In 2018, we found an APT described as the 27th function of this script, which we call ‘DarkUniverse’. This APT was active for at least […] more…McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo
Episode 4: Crescendo This is the final installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) analysis of Sodinokibi and its connections to GandGrab, the most prolific Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Campaign of 2018 and mid 2019. In this final episode of our series we will zoom in on the operations, techniques and tools used by different affiliate […] more…Latest Spam Campaigns from TA505 Now Using New Malware Tools Gelup and FlowerPippi
By: Hara Hiroaki and Loseway Lu (Threats Analysts) Since our last research on TA505, we have observed new activity from the group that involves campaigns targeting different countries over the last few weeks. We found them targeting countries in the Middle East such as United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as well as other countries […] more…Gaza Cybergang Group1, operation SneakyPastes
Gaza Cybergang(s) is a politically motivated Arabic-language cyberthreat actor, actively targeting the MENA (Middle East North Africa) region, especially the Palestinian Territories. The confusion surrounding Gaza Cybergang’s activities, separation of roles and campaigns has been prevalent in the cyber community. For a while, the gang’s activities seemed scattered, involving different tools and methods, and different […] more…A Zebrocy Go Downloader
Last year at SAS2018 in Cancun, Mexico, “Masha and these Bears” included discussion of a subset of Sofacy activity and malware that we call “Zebrocy”, and predictions for the decline of SPLM/XAgent Sofacy activity coinciding with the acceleration of Zebrocy activity and innovation. Zebrocy was initially introduced as a Sofacy backdoor package in 2015, but […] more…IT threat evolution Q3 2018. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Q3 figures According to Kaspersky Security Network: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 947,027,517 attacks launched from online resources located in 203 countries. 246,695,333 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by […] more…IT threat evolution Q2 2018. Statistics
Q2 figures According to KSN: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 962,947,023 attacks launched from online resources located in 187 countries across the globe. 351,913,075 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the computers of 215,762 users. […] more…Campaign Possibly Connected to “MuddyWater” Surfaces in the Middle East and Central Asia
We discovered a new campaign targeting organizations in Turkey, Pakistan and Tajikistan that has some similarities with an earlier campaign named MuddyWater, which hit various industries in several countries, primarily in the Middle East and Central Asia. Third party security researchers named the MuddyWater campaign as such because of the difficulties in attributing the attacks. […] more…Android Mobile Ransomware: Bigger, Badder, Better?
By Lorin Wu (Mobile Threat Analyst) The mobile threat landscape isn’t just rife with information stealers and rooting malware. There’s also mobile ransomware. While it seems they’re not as mature as their desktop counterparts, what with the likes of WannaCry and Petya, the increasing usage of mobile devices, particularly by businesses, will naturally draw more […] more…Deceive in order to detect
Interactivity is a security system feature that implies interaction with the attacker and their tools as well as an impact on the attack scenario depending on the attacker’s actions. For example, introducing junk search results to confuse the vulnerability scanners used by cybercriminals is interactive. As well as causing problems for the cybercriminals and their […] more…Uncovering the Inner Workings of EyePyramid
Two Italians referred to as the “Occhionero brothers” have been arrested and accused of using malware and a carefully-prepared spear-phishing scheme to spy on high-profile politicians and businessmen. This case has been called “EyePyramid”, which we first discussed last week. (Conspiracy theories aside, the name came from a domain name and directory path that was found during the […] more…More information
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