APT (Targeted attacks)

Kaspersky’s predictions about the threats to corporations in 2023: media blackmail, fake leaks, cloud attacks, and more advanced ransomware.

We continue to track the BlueNoroff group’s activities and this October we observed the adoption of new malware strains in its arsenal.

In this report, we compare the ROADSWEEP ransomware and ZEROCLEARE wiper versions used in two waves of attacks against Albanian government organizations.

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.