
Spam evolution: July – September 2007
For more than a year now, spammers have been trying to master new ways of evading spam filters in order to deliver spam that promotes stocks (so-called ‘stock spam’ or ‘pump-and-dump’ spam).
VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies.
Earlier, the CISA published an alert related to a Stairwell report, “Maui Ransomware.” Our data should openly help solidify the attribution of the Maui ransomware incident to the Korean-speaking APT Andariel, also known as Silent Chollima and Stonefly.
Kaspersky ICS CERT experts detected a wave of targeted attacks in several East European countries, as well as Afghanistan. Of the six backdoors identified on infected systems, five have been used earlier in attacks attributed to APT TA428.
This is our latest summary of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, focusing on events that we observed during Q2 2022.