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ISaPWN – research on the security of ISaGRAF Runtime
In early 2020, we notified the Rockwell Automation Product Security Incident Response Team RA PSIRT of several vulnerabilities we had identified in the ISaGRAF Runtime execution environment. According to public sources of information, ISaGRAF Runtime is used as an automation framework in multiple...
Evaluation of cyber activities and the threat landscape in Ukraine
Introduction When the war in Ukraine broke out, many analysts were surprised to discover that what was simultaneously happening in the cyber domain did not match their predictions1. Since the beginning of the fighting, new cyberattacks taking place in Ukraine have been identified every week, whic...
HTML attachments in phishing e-mails
The use of embedded HTML documents in phishing e-mails is a standard technique employed by cybercriminals. It does away with the need to put links in the e-mail body, which antispam engines and e-mail antiviruses usually detect with ease. HTML offers more possibilities than e-mail for camouflagin...
New ransomware trends in 2022
Ahead of the Anti-Ransomware Day, we summarized the tendencies that characterize ransomware landscape in 2022. This year, ransomware is no less active than before: cybercriminals continue to threaten nationwide retailers and enterprises, old variants of malware return while the new ones develop...
Mobile subscription Trojans and their little tricks
Billing fraud is one of the most common sources of income for cybercriminals. There are currently a number of known mobile Trojans specializing in secretly subscribing users to paid services. They usually pay for legitimate services in a users name and scammers take a cut from the money billed...
A new secret stash for “fileless” malware
In February 2022 we observed the technique of putting the shellcode into Windows event logs for the first time "in the wild" during the malicious campaign. It allows the "fileless" last stage Trojan to be hidden from plain sight in the file system. Such attention to the event logs in the campaign...
APT trends report Q1 2022
For five years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...
DDoS attacks in Q1 2022
News overview The DDoS landscape in Q1 2022 was shaped by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine: a significant part of all DDoS-related news concerned these countries. In mid-January, the website of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was hit by a DDoS attack, and the websites of a number of...
How to recover files encrypted by Yanluowang
Yanluowang is a type of targeted ransomware discovered by the Symantec Threat Hunter team as they were investigating an incident on a large corporate network. Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this...
Emotet modules and recent attacks
Emotet was first found in the wild in 2014. Back then its main functionality was stealing user banking credentials. Since then it has survived numerous transformations, started delivering other malware and finally became a powerful botnet. In January 2021 Emotet was disrupted by a joint effort of...
The State of Stalkerware in 2021
The state of stalkerware in 2021 PDF Main findings of 2021 Every year Kaspersky analyzes the use of stalkerware around the world to better understand the threat it poses. We partner with stakeholders across public and private sectors to raise awareness and find solutions to best tackle this...
A Bad Luck BlackCat
In early December 2021, a new ransomware actor started advertising its services on a Russian underground forum. They presented themselves as ALPHV, a new generation Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS group. Shortly afterwards, they dialed up their activity, infecting numerous corporate victims around t...
Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965): details and mitigations
Last week researchers found the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 in Spring – the open source Java framework. Using the vulnerability, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on a remote web server, which makes CVE-2022-22965 a critical threat, given the Spring frameworks popularity. By analog...
Lazarus Trojanized DeFi app for delivering malware
For the Lazarus threat actor, financial gain is one of the prime motivations, with a particular emphasis on the cryptocurrency business. As the price of cryptocurrency surges, and the popularity of non-fungible token NFT and decentralized finance DeFi businesses continues to swell, the Lazarus...
Phishing-kit market: what’s inside “off-the-shelf” phishing packages
What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Attackers tend to copy design elements from the real website, which is why users can find it hard to distinguish the fake pages from the official ones. Even...
CVE-2022-0847 aka Dirty Pipe vulnerability in Linux kernel
Last week, security researcher Max Kellermann discovered a high severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which was assigned the designation CVE-2022-0847. It affects the Linux kernels from 5.8 through any version before 5.16.11, 5.15.25 and 5.10.102, and can be used for local privilege...
Webinar on cyberattacks in Ukraine – summary and Q&A
About the webinar On March 10, 2022 Kasperskys Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT shared their insights into the current and past cyberattacks in Ukraine. In this post we address the questions that we did not have the time to answer and provide the Indicators of Compromise IoCs that can help...
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems, H2 2021
2021 is the second year we have spent living and working in the pandemic. 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,...
Elections GoRansom – a smoke screen for the HermeticWiper attack
Executive summary On February 24, 2022, Avast Threat Research published a tweet announcing the discovery of new Golang ransomware, which they called HermeticRansom. This malware was found around the same time the HermeticWiper was found, and based on publicly available information from security...
Financial cyberthreats in 2021
The year 2021 was eventful in terms of digital threats for organizations and individuals, and financial institutions were no exception. Throughout the past year, we have seen cybercriminals continue to actively target our users with tools and techniques that emerged due to the pandemic...
Mobile malware evolution 2021
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Figures of the year In 2021, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 3,464,756 malicious installation packages 97,661 new mobile banking Trojans...
DDoS attacks in Q4 2021
News roundup Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities. I...
Spam and phishing in 2021
Figures of the year In 2021: 45.56% of e-mails were spam 24.77% of spam was sent from Russia with another 14.12% from Germany Our Mail Anti-Virus blocked 148 173 261 malicious attachments sent in e-mails The most common malware family found in attachments were Agensla Trojans Our Anti-Phishing...
Roaming Mantis reaches Europe
Roaming Mantis is a malicious campaign that targets Android devices and spreads mobile malware via smishing. We have been tracking Roaming Mantis since 2018, and published five blog posts about this campaign: Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones Roaming Mantis dabbles i...
Telehealth: a new frontier in medicine—and security
Telehealth today doesnt just involve chatting with a doctor via a video-conferencing application. Its become an entire collection of rapidly developing technologies and products that includes specialized applications, wearable devices, implantable sensors, and cloud databases, many of which have...
MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware
What happened? At the end of 2021, we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our Firmware Scanner, which has been integrated into Kaspersky products since the beginning of 2019. Further analysis has shown that a single component within the inspected firmwares image...
Campaigns abusing corporate trusted infrastructure hunt for corporate credentials on ICS networks
Main facts Kaspersky ICS CERT has uncovered a number of spyware campaigns targeting industrial enterprises. Operators of these campaigns hunt for corporate credentials, aiming to commit financial fraud or to sell them to other malicious actors. Spearphishing emails with malicious attachments sent...
The BlueNoroff cryptocurrency hunt is still on
BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladeshs Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larg...
Choosing Christmas gifts for kids: Squid Game and Huggy Wuggy are trending
As the holidays approach, many of us are trying to figure out what to buy our family and friends. We especially want to make this time of year festive for kids. If you want to delight children, you need to know what theyre interested in: what LEGO set theyre dreaming about, what superheroes theyd...
Answering Log4Shell-related questions
Important notice On December 18th, Log4j version 2.17.0 was released to address open vulnerabilities. It is highly recommended to update your systems as soon as possible. History of the Log4j library vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228 initial vulnerability – partially fixed in 2.15.0 CVE-2021-45046...
How and why do we attack our own Anti-Spam?
We often use machine-learning ML technologies to improve the quality of cybersecurity systems. But machine-learning models can be susceptible to attacks that aim to "fool" them into delivering erroneous results. This can lead to significant damage to both our company and our clients. Therefore, i...
PseudoManuscrypt: a mass-scale spyware attack campaign
In June 2021, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts identified malware whose loader has some similarities to the Manuscrypt malware, which is part of the Lazarus APT groups arsenal. In 2020, the group used Manuscrypt in attacks on defense enterprises in different countries. These attacks are described in th...
Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response: interesting cases
Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response MDR provides advanced protection against the growing number of threats that bypass automatic security barriers. Its capabilities are backed by a high-professional team of security analysts operating all over the world. Each suspicious security event is...
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2021. Statistics
All statistics in this report are from the global cloud service Kaspersky Security Network KSN, which receives information from components in our security solutions. The data was obtained from users who had given their consent to it being sent to KSN. Millions of Kaspersky users around the globe...
Owowa: the add-on that turns your OWA into a credential stealer and remote access panel
While looking for potentially malicious implants that targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, we identified a suspicious binary that had been submitted to a multiscanner service in late 2020. Analyzing the code, we determined that the previously unknown binary is an IIS module, aimed at stealing...
CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability in Apache Log4j library
Updated 2021-12-20 CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 summary A couple of weeks ago information security media reported the discovery of the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j library CVSS severity level 10 out of 10. The threat, also named Log4Shell or LogJam, is a Remote...
The life cycle of phishing pages
Introduction In this study, we analyzed how long phishing pages survive as well as the signs they show when they become inactive. In addition to the general data, we provided a number of options for classifying phishing pages according to formal criteria and analyzed the results for each of them...
The story of the year: ransomware in the headlines
In the past twelve months, the word "ransomware" has popped up in countless headlines worldwide across both print and digital publications: The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, the New York Times. It is no longer just being discussed by CISOs and security professionals, but politicians, school...
APT annual review 2021
In the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky, we track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors and activity clusters; you can find our quarterly overviews here, here and here. For this annual review, we have tried to focus on what we consider to be the most...
ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists
The ScarCruft group also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others...
WIRTE’s campaign in the Middle East ‘living off the land’ since at least 2019
Overview This February, during our hunting efforts for threat actors using VBS/VBA implants, we came across MS Excel droppers that use hidden spreadsheets and VBA macros to drop their first stage implant. The implant itself is a VBS script with functionality to collect system information and...
IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics
IT threat evolution Q3 2021 IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. PC statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersk...
IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. PC statistics
IT threat evolution Q3 2021 IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. PC statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to...
IT threat evolution Q3 2021
IT threat evolution Q3 2021 IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. PC statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks WildPressure targets macOS Last March, we reported a WildPressure campaign targeting industrial-related entities in the Middle East. While tracking this...
Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022
Continuing trends In recent years, we have observed various trends in the changing threat landscape for industrial enterprises, most of which have been evolving for some time. We can say with high confidence that many of these trends will not only continue, but gain new traction in the coming yea...
The dangers of “connected” healthcare: predictions for 2022
For a second consecutive year, the time for Kaspersky to make its predictions for the healthcare sector comes amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the virus still dominates most aspects of our lives, and, of course, the pandemic remained the biggest and most-discussed topic in...
Privacy predictions 2022
We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Global connectivity underpins the most basic functions of our society, such as logistics, government services and banking. Consumers connect to businesses via instant messengers and order food delivery instead of...
Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022
First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. Analysis of forecasts...
Black Friday 2021: How to Have a Scam-Free Shopping Day
Fact 1: cybercriminals love to exploit big holidays for personal gain. Case in point: were already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. Fact 2: the retail sector, particularly e-commerce, has always been popular with cybercriminals. In Q3 2021, online stores...
Advanced threat predictions for 2022
Over the past 12 months, the style and severity of APT threats has continued to evolve. Despite their constantly changing nature, there is a lot we can learn from recent APT trends to predict what might lie ahead in the coming year. Based on the collective knowledge and insights of our experts, w...