Vice President of Threat Research, Kaspersky
Anton Ivanov is Vice President of Threat Research. He is responsible for overseeing a number of strategically important tasks at the company, including the promotion and development of Kaspersky’s Threat Research Team and building up our technology stack. Anton joined Kaspersky in 2011 as a malware analyst. For five years he worked as a senior malware analyst in the company’s Heuristic Detection Group. In 2016, Anton started to lead the Behavioral Detection Team. The team’s main focus was to proactively protect customers from different kinds of malware threats, including ransomware. In 2018, Anton became Head of the Advanced Threats Research and Detection Team, responsible for Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attacks research and improving the quality of anti-targeted attack detection products. Anton graduated from Russia’s Higher School of Economics in 2013, with a degree in information technology. In 2015, he received a master's degree in economics from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. He is the author of several patents in the field of malware detection. In addition, Anton is a well-known speaker at security conferences.The report features the most significant developments relating to APT groups in Q1 2024, including the new malware campaigns DuneQuixote and Durian, and hacktivist activity.
We continue to report on the APT group ToddyCat. This time, we’ll talk about traffic tunneling, constant access to a target infrastructure and data extraction from hosts.
New unattributed DuneQuixote campaign targeting entities in the Middle East employs droppers disguised as Total Commander installer and CR4T backdoor in C and Go.
In this report Kaspersky researchers provide an analysis of the previously unknown HrServ web shell, which exhibits both APT and crimeware features and has likely been active since 2021.