Mamba Ransomware Returns, APT Trends, And More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 APT report, Bugcrowd’s 250K mystery bounty, and a high schooler’s $10K bug bounty from Google. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust112017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes...

APT Trends report Q2 2017

Introduction Since 2014, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been providing threat intelligence reports to a wide-range of customers worldwide, leading to the delivery of a full and dedicated private reporting service. Prior to the new service offering, GReAT published...

CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices

By Waqas Kaspersky Lab has identified the presence of a backdoor designed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices...

Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr

If two is a coincidence and three is a trend, maybe we’re not quite there yet in officially calling WannaCry and ExPetr a new movement among APT attacks. But for now, it’s close enough. Researchers are starting to examine the real motivations behind each global outbreak and whether these attacks...

Researchers Find BlackEnergy APT Links in ExPetr Code

Researchers have found links between the BlackEnergy APT group and threat actors behind the ExPetr malware used in last month’s global attacks. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, there are strong similarities between older versions of BlackEnergy’s KillDisk ransomware compared to ExPetr...

June 30, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Victor Hugo” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! June 30, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black Seizes The...

Petya Is Not Ransomware, It's a 'Wiper'

The outbreak of the ExPetr malware isn’t a ransomware attack, but more precisely, it’s a wiper attack that sabotaged PCs globally, overwriting their Master Boot Record forever. That’s the analysis of security experts from Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies who shared their latest research on th...

'Little Hope' to Recover Data Lost to Petya Ransomware

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. Fewer than 50 ExPetr/Petya ransomware victims have paid approximately $10,200 in Bitcoin so far in the hopes of unlocking...

Complex Petya-Like Ransomware Outbreak Worse than WannaCry

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. The attackers behind today’s global ransomware outbreak are spreading the malware using a modified version of the leaked...

Svpeng Behind a Spike in Mobile Ransomware

The sting of mobile ransomware grew more painful in 2017 with attacks increasing a whopping 3.5 times in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago. Behind those attacks were a quarter million Trojan installation packages targeting Android devices that sought to extort between $100 to...

Google Removes Two Ztorg Trojans from Play Marketplace

Google, for the second time this month, has removed malicious apps from Google Play that could have laid the groundwork for an attacker to root infected devices. A researcher with Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday described how attackers managed to evade settings set in place by Google Play’s VerifyApps...

Ztorg: from rooting to SMS

I've been monitoring Google Play Store for new Ztorg Trojans since September 2016, and have so far found several dozen new malicious apps. All of them were rooting malware that used exploits to gain root rights on the infected device. Then, in the second half of May 2017 I found one that wasn't...

Decryption Utility Unlocks Files Encrypted by Jaff Ransomware

A weakness discovered in Jaff ransomware by researchers has led to the creation of decryption keys to unlock files locked by the malware. “We have found a vulnerability in Jaff’s code for all the variants to date. Thanks to this, it is now possible to recover users’ files encrypted with the .jaff...

Dvmap: the first Android malware with code injection

In April 2017 we started observing new rooting malware being distributed through the Google Play Store. Unlike other rooting malware, this Trojan not only installs its modules into the system, it also injects malicious code into the system runtime libraries. Kaspersky Lab products detect it as...

First Android-Rooting Trojan With Code Injection Ability Found On Google Play Store

A new Android-rooting malware with an ability to disable device’ security settings in an effort to perform malicious tasks in the background has been detected on the official Play Store. What's interesting? The app was smart enough to fool Google security mechanism by first pretending itself to b...

WannaCry Development Errors Enable File Recovery

WannaCry may have caused worldwide havoc on May 12 when it rode the coattails of the NSA’s weaponized EternalBlue exploit to infect computers in 150 countries, but that doesn’t mean it was a quality piece of ransomware. A number of programming errors in the code are floating to the surface and...

Leaked NSA Exploit Spreading Ransomware Worldwide

A ransomware attack running rampant through Europe today is spreading via an exploit leaked in the most recent ShadowBrokers dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said the attackers behind today’s outbreak of WannaCry ransomware are using EternalBlue, the codename for an exploit made public by the...

IBM: Destroy USBs Infected with Malware Dropper

USB drives shipped with some IBM’s Storwize storage products are infected with malware, and the tech giant advises customers destroy the devices. IBM would not comment on the source of the infection or where in the supply chain the interdiction happened, and instead referred Threatpost to an...

Lack of Communication Achilles' Heel for Ransomware Fighters

BOSTON—Collaboration is important when it comes to fighting ransomware, but the lack of communication around the issue remains a serious impediment, law enforcement says. “If we don’t know about it and no one keeps track of it, then no one cares,” Frank McLaughlin, a detective with the Boston...

Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...