Phishing is increasingly a preliminary step in multi-stage ransomware campaigns: attackers use phishing to gain initial access, then deploy loaders/RATs to perform reconnaissance, lateral movement, persistence and finally deliver ransomware. Detecting and bloc…
Category: Threat Research
Cofense PDC discovered an IT-support themed phishing campaign that impersonates Mimecast to trick users into submitting credentials via recently created spoof domains. The attack uses a counterfeit Mimecast security flow and landing page (hXXps://hiudgntxrg[.]…
Executive Summary Ryuk is a ransomware that encrypts a victim’s files and requests payment in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to release the…
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Recently, the McAfee Mobile Research Team uncovered several new variants of the Android malware family BRATA being distributed in Google…
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Executive Summary Cuba ransomware is an older ransomware, that has recently undergone some development. The actors have incorporated the leaking of victim data to increase its impact…
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Cuba Ransomware Overview Over the past year, we have seen ransomware attackers change the way they have responded to organizations…
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Operation Dianxun Overview In a recent report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Strategic Intelligence team disclosed an espionage campaign,…
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In this report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Strategic Intelligence team details an espionage campaign, targeting telecommunication companies, dubbed…
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Executive Summary Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises,…
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