How “professional” ransomware variants boost cybercrime groups

Kaspersky researchers investigated three ransomware groups that tapped newly built malware samples based on Babuk, Lockbit, Chaos and others, while lacking professional resources. Continue reading How “professional” ransomware variants boost cybercrime groups

Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident

In this article we analyze social engineering aspects of the XZ backdoor incident. Namely pressuring the XZ maintainer to pass on the project to Jia Cheong Tan, and then urging major downstream maintainers to commit the backdoored code to their projects. Continue reading Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident

DuneQuixote campaign targets Middle Eastern entities with “CR4T” malware

New unattributed DuneQuixote campaign targeting entities in the Middle East employs droppers disguised as Total Commander installer and CR4T backdoor in C and Go. Continue reading DuneQuixote campaign targets Middle Eastern entities with “CR4T” malware