Bitdefender researchers have recently found the APT group StrongPity has been targeting victims in Turkey and Syria. Using watering hole tactics to selectively infect victims and deploying a three-tier C&C infrastructure to thwart forensic...
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Bitdefender researchers have recently found an increasing number of SSH-targeting bots written in Golang. Traditionally, popular malware is written in C, C++ and Perl, and it’s rare that we see attackers creating new malware or bots from scratch...
In 2016, a sophisticated malware campaign targeting Pakistani nationals made headlines. Dubbed Bitter, the Advanced Persistent Threat group (also known as APT-C-08) has been active both in desktop and mobile malware campaigns for quite a long time...
Bitdefender researchers Janos Gergo SZELES and Ruben Andrei CONDOR have documented a new Metamorfo campaign that uses legitimate software components to compromise computers. Metamorfo is a family of banker Trojans that has been active since mid-2018...
Bitdefender researchers have found attacks conducted by the Chafer APT threat group – known to have an apparent Iranian link – in the Middle East region, dating back to 2018. The campaigns were based on several tools, including “living...