Paleontology: The Unknown Origins of Lazarus Malware
As seen by security researchers across the world and proven in a joint research by McAfee and Intezer, Lazarus, one of the...
APT37: Final1stspy Reaping the FreeMilk
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks recently published a report regarding the NOKKI malware, which has shared code with KONNI and, although not in...
Intezer Analyze™ ELF Support Release: Hakai Variant Case Study
ELF SUPPORT We would like to proudly announce that Intezer Analyze™ now supports genetic malware analysis for ELF binaries! You may now...
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Foudre
Introduction In the past couple years, Palo Alto Networks reported on the “Prince of Persia” malware campaign which is believed to be...
Examining Code Reuse Reveals Undiscovered Links Among North Korea’s Malware Families
This research is a joint effort of Christiaan Beek, lead scientist & sr. principal engineer at McAfee, and Jay Rosenberg, senior security researcher...
Yet Another Distraction? A New Version of North Korean Ransomware Hermes Has Emerged
Detecting Reused Ransomware Whether we’re dealing with a criminal threat actor looking to steal money from their victims using ransomware or malware...
BLOCKBUSTED: Lazarus, Blockbuster, and North Korea
As we have proven in previous research blog posts, malware authors often reuse the same code. This evolution of code and code...
IcedID Banking Trojan Shares Code with Pony 2.0 Trojan
IBM X-Force recently released an excellent report on a new banking trojan named IcedID that is being distributed using computers already infected...
Silence of the Moles
Kaspersky Labs published a technical analysis of a new malware, Silence that is aimed at attacking financial institutions. After uploading the loader...
NotPetya Returns as Bad Rabbit
Large scale cyber attacks seem to be happening once a month these days. Originally discovered by ESET (https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/10/24/kiev-metro-hit-new-variant-infamous-diskcoder-ransomware/), Ukrainian and Russian organizations...