Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Continue reading Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Continue reading Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

IT threat evolution Q2 2021

Ferocious Kitten, TunnelSnake, PuzzleMaker and other threat actors, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware and banking Trojans – check out our review of Q2 2021. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q2 2021

IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics

In Q2 2021, we prevented 14,465,672 mobile malware, adware and riskware attacks; 886,105 malicious installation packages were detected, of which 24,604 packages were mobile banking Trojans and 3,623 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Continue reading IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics

Arrests of members of Tetrade seed groups Grandoreiro and Melcoz

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz cybercrime groups. Both are originally from Brazil and form part of the Tetrade umbrella, operating for a few years now in Latin America and Western Europe. Continue reading Arrests of members of Tetrade seed groups Grandoreiro and Melcoz

Malicious spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans

In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans. The payload in most cases was IcedID, but we have also seen a few QBot (aka QakBot) samples. Continue reading Malicious spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans

Gootkit: the cautious Trojan

Gootkit is complex multi-stage banking malware capable of stealing data from the browser, performing man-in-the-browser attacks, keylogging, taking screenshots and lots of other malicious actions. Its loader performs various virtual machine and sandbox checks and uses sophisticated persistence algorithms. Continue reading Gootkit: the cautious Trojan

IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Mobile statistics

In the first quarter of 2021 we detected 1.45M mobile installation packages, of which 25K packages were related to mobile banking Trojans and 3.6K packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Mobile statistics