Mobile malware evolution 2020
In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans and 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans.
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The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor
The investigation described in this article started with one such file which caught our attention due to the various improvements it brought to this well-known infection vector.
APT10: sophisticated multi-layered loader Ecipekac discovered in A41APT campaign
A41APT is a long-running campaign with activities detected from March 2019 to the end of December 2020. Most of the discovered malware families are fileless malware and they have not been seen before.
Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle
In mid-2020, we realized that Lazarus was launching attacks on the defense industry using the ThreatNeedle cluster, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (a.k.a. NukeSped). While investigating this activity, we were able to observe the complete life cycle of an attack, uncovering more technical details and links to the group’s other campaigns.
Sunburst backdoor – code overlaps with Kazuar
While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar. Our observations shows that Kazuar was used together with Turla tools during multiple breaches in past years.
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