DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in Q1. Also, we saw the continuation of a trend that began in spring: an increase in superlong attacks. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

The SessionManager IIS backdoor: a possibly overlooked GELSEMIUM artefact

In early 2022, we investigated an IIS backdoor called SessionManager. It has been used against NGOs, government, military and industrial organizations in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Continue reading The SessionManager IIS backdoor: a possibly overlooked GELSEMIUM artefact

Threat landscape for industrial automation systems, H2 2021

By 2021 everyone got used to pandemic limitations – industrial organization employees and IT security professionals and threat actors. If we compare the numbers from 2020 and 2021, we see that 2021 looks more stable, particularly in H2. Continue reading Threat landscape for industrial automation systems, H2 2021

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2021. Statistics

Key statistics for 2021: miners, ransomware, trojan bankers and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT. Continue reading Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2021. Statistics

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2021. Statistics

Key statistics for 2021: miners, ransomware, trojan bankers and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT. Continue reading Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2021. Statistics

Owowa: the add-on that turns your OWA into a credential stealer and remote access panel

We found a suspicious binary and determined it as an IIS module, aimed at stealing credentials and enabling remote command execution from OWA. We named the malicious module ‘Owowa’, Continue reading Owowa: the add-on that turns your OWA into a credential stealer and remote access panel