Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor

Government entities in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a previously undocumented campaign to deliver a new backdoor dubbed CR4T. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said it discovered the activity in February 2024, with evidence suggesting that it may have been active since at...

DGA Changer Malware Able to Modify Domain-Generation Seed on the Fly

Malware authors have been using domain-generation algorithms for a few years now, often in botnet-related malware that needs to stay one step ahead of takedown attempts and law enforcement agencies. Now, researchers have discovered that a strain of malware that may have been part of the attack in...