SideWinder APT Targets Nepal, Afghanistan in Wide-Ranging Spy Campaign

Convincing email-credentials phishing, emailed backdoors and mobile apps are all part of the groups latest effort against military and government targets. Continue reading SideWinder APT Targets Nepal, Afghanistan in Wide-Ranging Spy Campaign

Protect Before You Detect: FlawedAmmyy and the Case for Isolation

Posted by Ratnesh Pandey, Alex Holland and Toby Gray. In June 2019, Microsoft issued warnings about a phishing campaign delivering a new variant of the FlawedAmmyy remote access Trojan (RAT), and a spike in the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882&… Continue reading Protect Before You Detect: FlawedAmmyy and the Case for Isolation

AgentTesla keylogger as fileless malware.

I am seeing a somewhat different to usual AgentTesla malspam campaign this morning. This is using a multistage downloader eventually resulting in the AgentTesla keylogger / infostealer being run on the victim’s computer as a fileless malware. It … Continue reading AgentTesla keylogger as fileless malware.

Remcos Rat via fake invoice using multiple delivery methods.

I have heard of the “Belt and Braces ” approach to delivering malware before, but this malware campaign delivering Remcos Rat is using  the belt and 2 pairs of braces to try make sure the malware gets delivered. The email is a fairly typica… Continue reading Remcos Rat via fake invoice using multiple delivery methods.

multiple malware delivered from compromised website run on a domestic BT IP address

As I mentioned earlier in the week, we aren’t seeing massive amounts of malware, especially in the UK at the moment BUT we do see a steady lowish volume stream of commodity malware. These are they standard easy to purchase and use malware tools l… Continue reading multiple malware delivered from compromised website run on a domestic BT IP address

Hawkeye keylogger via fake receipt. Stolen data sent to another keylogger site.

Over the last month or 6 weeks we, along with many other researchers, have noticed quite a drop in Malspam, in fact in spam generally. Nobody quite knows why but generally this means one or other of the major spam sending botnets has been taken down or… Continue reading Hawkeye keylogger via fake receipt. Stolen data sent to another keylogger site.

Lokibot via fake purchase order but won’t run in W7 or W8.1

I have got a very unusual and somewhat difficult to analyse set of malware files here. I received 2 different versions of this email. The first with just an XLSX attachment, the second with both an XLSX and a .rar attachment. Running the xlsx file thro… Continue reading Lokibot via fake purchase order but won’t run in W7 or W8.1