APT (Targeted attacks)

In this report, we propose to go over the various activities that were observed in cyberspace in relation to the conflict in Ukraine, understand their meaning in the context of the current conflict, and study their impact on the cybersecurity field as a whole.

While hunting for less common Deathstalker intrusions, we identified a new Janicab variant used in targeting legal entities in the Middle East throughout 2020.

The coming year looks to be much more complicated. In the post we share some of our thoughts on potential developments of 2023, though we cannot claim to be providing either a complete picture or a high degree of precision.

This is the first edition of our policy analysis and observations of trends in the regulation of cyberspace, and cybersecurity, within the Kaspersky Security Bulletin.

Recent APT campaigns, a sophisticated UEFI rootkit, new ransomware for Windows, Linux and ESXi, attacks on foreign and crypto-currency exchanges, and malicious packages in online code repositories.

In recent campaigns DTrack targets organizations in Europe and Latin America, and uses more delivery stages.

We polled our experts from the GReAT team and have gathered a small number of key insights about what APT actors are likely to focus on in 2023.

We invited notable experts to share their insights and unbiased opinions on what we should expect from cybersecurity in the following year.

This report describes several interesting incidents observed by the Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team. We hope that it helps you to stay up to date on the modern threat landscape and to be better prepared for attacks.

This is our latest summary of advanced persistent threat (APT) activities, focusing on events that we observed during Q3 2022.

In the second part of this report, we discuss improvements made to the LODEINFO backdoor shellcode in 2022.

The first part of this report will provide technical analysis of the new infection methods such as SFX files and DOWNIISSA, a new downloader shellcode used to deploy the LODEINFO backdoor.

In this report we provide technical analysis of the GamePlayerFramework deployed by an APT we call DiceyF, which is targeting online casinos in Southeast Asia.

TajMahal, DarkUniverse, PuzzleMaker, ProjectSauron (aka Strider), USB Thief, TENSHO (aka White Tur), PlexingEagle, SinSono, MagicScroll (aka AcidBox), Metador—all these targeted attacks are still unattributed.

Kaspersky researchers detected OnionPoison campaign: malicious Tor Browser installer spreading through a popular YouTube channel and targeting Chinese users.