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Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we don’t have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploit in the near future. Continue reading Advanced Threat predictions for 2021
For more than three years, GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat activity. This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2020. Continue reading APT trends report Q3 2020
On 3rd of September, we were hosting our webinar, in which we shared best practices on YARA usage. Due to timing restrictions we were not able to answer all the questions, therefore we’re trying to answer them here. Continue reading Why master YARA: from routine to extreme threat hunting cases. Follow-up
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot has been written about targeted attacks on Windows systems. Windows is, due to its popularity, the platform for which we discover most APT attack tools. At the same time, there’s a widely held opinion that Linux… Read Full Article Continue reading An overview of targeted attacks and APTs on Linux
This summary is based on our threat intelligence research and provides a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2020. Continue reading APT trends report Q2 2020
The MATA malware framework possesses several components, such as loader, orchestrator and plugins. The framework is able to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. Continue reading MATA: Multi-platform targeted malware framework
The two hours of our first “GReAT Ideas. Powered by SAS” session were not enough for answering all of the questions raised, therefore we try to answer them below. Continue reading GReAT Ideas follow-up
This article is a deep dive intended for a complete understanding of these four banking trojan families: Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and Grandoreiro, as they expand abroad, targeting users not just in Brazil, but in the wider Latin America and Europe. Continue reading The Tetrade: Brazilian banking malware goes global
While investigating attacks related to a group named Cycldek post 2018, we were able to uncover various pieces of information on its activities that were not known thus far. Continue reading Cycldek: Bridging the (air) gap
In autumn 2019 we published a story about how a COMpfun successor known as Reductor infected files on the fly to compromise TLS traffic. Later in November 2019 we revealed a new Trojan using the same code base as COMPFun. Continue reading COMpfun authors spoof visa application with HTTP status-based Trojan