Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations

In 2022 Kaspersky investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. In the campaigns, the attackers aimed to establish a permanent channel for data exfiltration, including data stored on air-gapped systems. Based on similarities found between these Read More …

UK Elections watchdog targeted by cyber attack which left voters’ details exposed

Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the elections watchdog. The Electoral Commission revealed on Tuesday it was targeted by a cyber attack which allowed “hostile actors” to access electoral registers. The hack Read More …

Ukraine-Linked Group Claims It Hacked Website Of Moscow Property Registration Bureau

A Ukraine-linked hacker group said on Telegram on August 7 that it had hacked the website of Moscow’s municipal property registration bureau (MosgorBTI) overnight, saying “the information about state officials, politicians, military, and special services officers who support the Ukraine Read More …

Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data

Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims’ phones. In a notice on its website Read More …

What’s happening in the world of crimeware: Emotet, DarkGate and LokiBot

The malware landscape keeps evolving. New families are born, while others disappear. Some families are short-lived, while others remain active for quite a long time. In order to follow this evolution, Kaspersky researchers rely both on samples that they detect Read More …

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM). This latest attack, combined with past Read More …

Sha zhu pan scam uses AI chat tool to target iPhone and Android users

Over the past two years, we have been tracking a variety of scams targeting mobile device users, generally referred to as “shā zhū pán” (杀猪盘, which translates as “butcher plate”) or “Pig Butchering.” This includes a category we labelled as Read More …

Uncovering an Iranian mobile malware campaign

During a recent proactive hunt for malicious mobile malware, Sophos X-Ops researchers from SophosLabs discovered a group of four credential-harvesting apps targeting customers of several Iranian banks. Most of the apps are signed using the same – possibly stolen – Read More …

Hibernating Qakbot: A Comprehensive Study and In-depth Campaign Analysis

In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, banking trojans continue to pose a significant risk to organizations worldwide. Among them, Qakbot, also known as QBot or Pinkslipbot, stands out as a highly sophisticated and persistent malware active since 2007, targeting Read More …