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Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team monitors over 900 APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups and operations. In this piece of KSB series, we review the advanced threat trends from the past year and offer insights into what we can expect in 2025. Continue reading Advanced threat predictions for 2025
ESET researchers have identified multiple samples of two previously unknown Linux backdoors: WolfsBane and FireWood. The goal of the backdoors and tools discovered is cyberespionage that targets sensitive data such as system information, user credentia… Continue reading Researchers unearth two previously unknown Linux backdoors
It’s not just North Korean hackers who reach out to targets via LinkedIn: since at least September 2023, Iranian threat actor TA455 has been trying to compromise workers in the aerospace industry by impersonating job recruiters on the popular emp… Continue reading Aerospace employees targeted with malicious “dream job” offers
North Korean hackers are targeting crypto-related businesses with phishing emails and novel macOS-specific malware. The crypto-related phishing campaign Since July 2024, phishing emails seemingly containing helpful information on risks related to the r… Continue reading North Korean hackers employ new tactics to compromise crypto-related businesses
Midnight Blizzard – a cyber espionage group that has been linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) – is targeting government, academia, defense, and NGO workers with phishing emails containing a signed Remote Desktop Protoco… Continue reading Russian hackers deliver malicious RDP configuration files to thousands
Kaspersky GReAT experts break down the new campaign of Lazarus APT which uses social engineering and exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome for financial gain. Continue reading The Crypto Game of Lazarus APT: Investors vs. Zero-days
In this article we solve the most difficult SAS CTF challenge based on the APT technique to introduce and persist a kernel shellcode on Windows 7. Continue reading SAS CTF and the many ways to persist a kernel shellcode on Windows 7
Kaspersky analyzes SideWinder APT’s recent activity: new targets in the MiddleEast and Africa, post-exploitation tools and techniques. Continue reading Beyond the Surface: the evolution and expansion of the SideWinder APT group
ESET researchers have discovered a series of attacks that took place in Europe from May 2022 to March 2024, where the attackers used a toolset capable of targeting air-gapped systems, in a governmental organization of a European Union country. Cyberesp… Continue reading GoldenJackal APT group breaches air-gapped systems in Europe
Kaspersky experts have discovered a new version of the APT Awaken Likho RAT Trojan, which uses AutoIt scripts and the MeshCentral system to target Russian organizations. Continue reading Awaken Likho is awake: new techniques of an APT group