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2016 was the year of ransomware, with hackers focusing their attention on exploiting Internet users and businesses around the world for profit.Categories: Malware
Threat analysisTags: cybersecuritypredictionsransomwaresecurity(Read more…) Continue reading Security in 2017: Ransomware will remain king
In this article, we will have a case study of a simple userland rootkit, that uses a technique of API redirection in order to hide own presence from the popular monitoring tools.Categories: Malware
Threat analysisTags: malwarerootkit(Read more…) Continue reading Simple userland rootkit – a case study
A new zero-day has been found in the wild and was used against the popular Tor Browser. This exploit was meant to leak information about users, such as their IP address.Categories: Exploits
Threat analysisTags: 0dayanti exploitexploitsfirefoxmozillaTo… Continue reading Tor Browser zero-day strikes again
Ransomware is so popular that even tech support scammers have eventually adopted it. Now the ransom note asks you to call ‘Microsoft’ to get your encrypted files back.Categories: Threat analysisTags: microsoftransomwaretech supporttech support scamsTSS… Continue reading Tech support scammers up their game with ransomware
A new ransomware, TeleCrypt appeared recently carrying some new ideas. Telecrypt abuses the API of a popular messenger, Telegram.Categories: Malware
Threat analysisTags: malwareransomwareTeleCryptTeleCrypt DecryptorTelegram API(Read more…) Continue reading TeleCrypt – the ransomware abusing Telegram API – defeated!
PrincessLocker ransomware has appeared some time ago and has drawn out attention by using the same template of the site for a victim as Cerber did. In this article, we dig deeper and try to answer questions about its internal similarities with Cerber (… Continue reading PrincessLocker – ransomware with not so royal encryption
Floki Bot, described recently by Dr. Peter Stephenson from SC Magazine is yet another bot, based on the leaked Zeus code. However, the author came up with various custom modifications that makes it more interesting.Categories: Malware
Threat analysisT… Continue reading Floki Bot and the stealthy dropper
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| Recently, our analyst Jérôme Segura captured an interesting payload in the wild. It turned out to be a new bot, that, at the moment of the analysis, hadn’t been described yet.
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Content Protector is an adware that is offered as a netfiltering program. This seems a bit strange for ad-supported software. It also comes with it’s own certificate.Categories: PUPs
Threat analysisTags: adwarecontent defenderContent protectornetfilte… Continue reading PUP Friday: Content Protector
In this post we take a quick glance at some changes made to the Sundown exploit kit. The landing page has been tweaked and uses various obfuscation techniques. Sundown is used in some smaller campaigns and in this particular case dropped a downloader f… Continue reading New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker