Month: April 2017 | Securelist

Often, virus writers don’t even bother to run encryption or mask their communications. However, you do get the occasional off-the-wall approaches that don’t fall into either of the categories. Take, for instance, the case of a Trojan that Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered in mid-March and which establishes a DNS tunnel for communication with the C&C server.

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Kaspersky analyzes SideWinder APT’s recent activity: new targets in the MiddleEast and Africa, post-exploitation tools and techniques.

Kaspersky shares insights into the activity and TTPs of the BlindEagle APT, which targets organizations and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama and other Latin American countries.

Kaspersky has identified a new EastWind campaign targeting Russian organizations and using CloudSorcerer as well as APT31 and APT27 tools.

The report features the most significant developments relating to APT groups in Q2 2024, including the new backdoor in Linux utility XZ, a new RAT called SalmonQT, and hacktivist activity.

April 2017

Use of DNS Tunneling for C&C Communications

APT Trends report, Q1 2017

Hajime, the mysterious evolving botnet

XPan, I am your father

Exploits: how great is the threat?

Personalized Spam and Phishing

The security is still secure

Old Malware Tricks To Bypass Detection in the Age of Big Data

Unraveling the Lamberts Toolkit

Ransomware in targeted attacks

ATMitch: remote administration of ATMs

Lazarus Under The Hood

Penquin’s Moonlit Maze

Keyloggers: How they work and how to detect them (Part 1)

Scammers’ delivery service: exclusively dangerous

RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems

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Beyond the Surface: the evolution and expansion of the SideWinder APT group

BlindEagle flying high in Latin America

EastWind campaign: new CloudSorcerer attacks on government organizations in Russia

APT trends report Q2 2024

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