Bitdefender researchers have recently investigated a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia, carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group. The operation dates back to late 2018, with...
Threat research
The discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, followed by its in-depth analysis, uncovered several “industry firsts”, including hijacking of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to enumerate users and spread to available network shares. In the...
We’re happy to announce the availability of a new decryptor for MaMoCrypt, a strain of ransomware that appeared in December last year. MaMoCrypt is an unusual piece of ransomware, a variant of MZRevenge written in Delphi and packed...
While botnets have been used for anything from performing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks to stealing data and even sending spam, Bitdefender researchers have found signs that the Interplanetary Storm botnet could be used for something...