Leonid Bezvershenko

Junior Security Researcher, GReAT

Leonid joined Kaspersky in 2020 as an intern in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GreAT). Here, he played an active role in the development of internal tools and infrastructure as well as darknet research and assisted in training courses provided by GReAT. In 2021, Leonid was invited to join GReAT as a Junior Security Researcher. As part of his role, he is engaged in open-source security, reverse engineering and malware analysis. In addition to this, Leonid has become one of the authors of Crimeware reports and dark web research publications. Based on his successful research he appears as a speaker in Kaspersky videos demonstrating his expertise in Threat Intelligence.

Publications

Reports

Focus on DroxiDat/SystemBC

An unknown actor targeted an electric utility in southern Africa with Cobalt Strike beacons and DroxiDat, a new variant of the SystemBC payload. We speculate that this incident was in the initial stages of a ransomware attack.

APT trends report Q2 2023

This is our latest summary of the significant events and findings, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2023.

Meet the GoldenJackal APT group. Don’t expect any howls

GoldenJackal is an APT group, active since 2019, that usually targets government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. The main feature of this group is a specific toolset of .NET malware, JackalControl, JackalWorm, JackalSteal, JackalPerInfo and JackalScreenWatcher.

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