When Guardians Become Predators: How Malware Corrupts the Protectors

When Guardians Become Predators: How Malware Corrupts the Protectors By Trellix · November 20, 2024 This blog was also written by Trishaan Kalra Introduction We often trust our security software to stand as an unbreakable wall against malware and attacks, but what happens when that very wall is...

Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy

Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy By James Murphy, Ale Houspanossian, Leandro Velasco LV and Ilya Kolmanovich · November 14, 2024 What does it take to transform threat actor research into detection engineering? If we look at threat intelligence at its core, then we...

DarkGate again but... Improved?

DarkGate again but... Improved? By Ernesto Fernández Provecho · June 3, 2024 Executive summary During 2023, DarkGate made a comeback with a version full of new features, becoming one of the most preferred Remote Access Trojans RATs by malicious actors. However, this momentum also required...

The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing

The Anatomy of HTML Attachment Phishing: One Code, Many Variants By Mathanraj Thangaraju, Niranjan Hegde, and Sijo Jacob · June 14, 2023 Introduction Phishing is the malevolent practise of pretending to be a reliable entity in electronic communication to steal sensitive data, such as login...

Exploring New Techniques of Fake Browser Updates Leading to NetSupport RAT

Exploring New Techniques of Fake Browser Updates Leading to NetSupport RAT By Jonell Baltazar · August 10, 2023 This blog was also written by Antonio Ribeiro Trellix detected an ongoing campaign using fake Chrome browser updates to lure victims to install a remote administration software tool...

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution By Pham Duy Phuc, John Fokker J.E. and Alejandro Houspanossian · March 07, 2023 This blog was also written by Raghav Kapoor and Mathanraj Thangaraju Qakbot aka QBot, QuakBot, and Pinkslipbot is a sophisticated piece of malware that has been active...

Trellix Advanced Research Center patches 61,000 vulnerable open-source projects

Trellix Advanced Research Center Patches 61,000 Vulnerable Open-Source Projects By Trellix · January 23, 2023 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Late last year, the Trellix Advanced Research Center team uncovered a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module. As we dug in, we realized this was...