The Evilnum group operations were first discovered in 2018. The group is highly focused on attacks on large financial technology organizations, especially on investment platforms and cryptocurrency-related companies. Most of their targets are located in Europe and the United Kingdom, but the group also carried out separate attacks on organizations in Canada and Australia. Researchers […]
The use of COVID19 related lures is already perceived as common practice among both financially motivated groups and state-sponsored cyber espionage units. Researchers released a report last week about another group that has been using COVID19 themed phishing emails for six months to deliver their new tool. Yes, we are talking about the Chinese APT […]
Ransomware continues to be one of the most serious threats to corporate networks, and Snatch ransomware is one of the most annoying “guests” that emerged relatively recently. The first infections were recorded about two years ago, but serious attacks on organizations began only in April 2019, and since then, the appetites and skills of the […]
Last year, India was named the most cyber-attacked country. Critical infrastructures in oil and gas industries, and defence, banking, and manufacturing sectors are listed as the most common targets. In April 2020, the governmental establishments and a number of banks in India were targeted by email campaigns delivering a malicious JavaScript and Java-based backdoor which […]
Transparent Tribe (aka PROJECTM and MYTHIC LEOPARD) is a cyber espionage unit that is linked to the Pakistani government and has been active since at least 2013. The group has been quite active in the last four years targeting primarily Indian military and government personnel, but during the last year, they attacked more and more […]
Another Infostealer with backdoor functions was discovered in late July. Malware authors advertise it on Russian cybercrime forums and sell various modifications of the utility at an affordable price. New Infostealer is written in C++ and was dubbed PurpleWave by its authors. The malware can perform a number of malicious actions of a hacker’s choice […]
It’s been a year since the first malware timidly exploited DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to retrieve the IPs for the command-and-control infrastructure. Security researchers had already warned that this could be a serious problem and started to look for a solution that would help detect such malicious traffic. More and more malware has been switching to DoH […]
The Gamaredon group appeared in 2013 and at first, did not use custom malware, but over time developed a number of cyber espionage tools, including Pterodo and EvilGnome malware. In recent months, the group has been actively sending phishing emails with documents containing malicious macros that download a multitude of different malware variants. The Gamaredon […]
In today’s news, we want to warn you about the ongoing campaign by Water Nue targeting the business Office 365 accounts in the US and Canada. Notably, the fraudsters successfully reached a number of high-level managers in companies worldwide and harvested over 800 sets of credentials. Although their phishing toolset is limited, they do not […]
Today’s article is somewhat a continuation of Detection Content: Arkei Stealer since the author of the detection rule for Ave Maria RAT is the same, and both malicious tools have recently been actively spread using the Spamhaus Botnet. Ave Maria is a Remote Access Trojan that is often used by adversaries to take over the […]