The analysis showed the Backdoor.Win32.Plurox to have a few quite unpleasant features. What’s more, the backdoor is modular, which means that its functionality can be expanded with the aid of plugins. Read Full Article
Platinum is back
In June 2018, we came across an unusual set of samples spreading throughout South and Southeast Asian countries targeting diplomatic, government and military entities. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q1 2019
Zebrocy and GreyEnergy, four zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, a very old bug in WinRAR, attacks on smart devices and other events of the first quarter of 2019. Read Full Article
ScarCruft continues to evolve, introduces Bluetooth harvester
After publishing our initial series of blogposts back in 2016, we have continued to track the ScarCruft threat actor. ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula. Read Full Article
Operation ShadowHammer: a high-profile supply chain attack
In late March 2019, we briefly highlighted our research on ShadowHammer attacks, a sophisticated supply chain attack involving ASUS Live Update Utility. Now it is time to share more details about the research with our readers. Read Full Article
Operation ShadowHammer
Operation ShadowHammer is a newly discovered supply chain attack that leveraged ASUS Live Update software. While the investigation is still in progress and full results and technical paper will be published during SAS 2019 conference in Singapore, we would like to share some important details about the attack. Read Full Article
A Zebrocy Go Downloader
The Sofacy subset we identify as “Zebrocy” continues to target Central Asian government related organizations, both in-country and remote locations, along with a new middle eastern diplomatic target. And, as predicted, they continue to build out their malware set with a variety of scripts and managed code. Read Full Article
DarkPulsar FAQ
Frequently asked questions about DarkPulsar implant that was found in the “Lost in Translation” leak among other tools. Read Full Article
DarkPulsar
After the “Lost in Translation” leak was revealed, we noticed that this leak contained a tool in the “implants” category called DarkPulsar. We analyzed it and understood that it is not a backdoor itself, but the administrative part only. Read Full Article
Shedding Skin – Turla’s Fresh Faces
Turla, also known as Venomous Bear, Waterbug, and Uroboros, may be best known for what was at the time an “ultra complex” snake rootkit focused on NATO-related targets, but their malware set and activity is much broader. Our current focus is on more recent and upcoming activity from this APT. Read Full Article