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A group of attackers with ties to the Vietnamese cybercrime underground ecosystem are running a significant campaign across many different countries that is delivering the PXA Stealer malware and uses novel sideloading and anti-analysis techniques to slip past defensive measures. The campaign has targeted victims in more than 60 countries and the attackers have harvested […]
While law enforcement disruptions certainly have a positive impact, there are deep-rooted difficulties in measuring substantial long-term changes.
Microsoft has uncovered a long-running campaign by a threat group affiliated with Russian intelligence that has targeted diplomats working in Russia with a custom tool called ApolloShadow that enables the group to maintain persistence on victims’ devices as part of a cyberespionage operation. The group is known as Secret Blizzard and Microsoft’s researchers found that […]
This is where it all started. The web doesn’t have to be dark. Decipher’s goal is to bring order to this unpredictable and often confusing landscape by providing fresh perspectives from trusted voices.
As the 1990s drew to a close, the curtain was coming down on the L0pht, as well. Security companies were helping to fuel the first dot-com boom, and venture capitalists and investors took the place of the law enforcement agencies that once circled the group. The L0pht members considered their options: continue as an independent […]
By the beginning of 1998, the national media had decided that cybersecurity was something worth paying attention to and the members of the L0pht were ready and willing to help explain the issues and weaknesses that all of this new technology brought with it. Pieces in The Washington Post, Wired, and many other outlets raised […]
