One of the recent triumphs against cybercrime is the disruption of the activities of the Gameover ZeuS botnet. Perhaps what makes this more significant is that one major threat was also affected—the notorious CryptoLocker malware. However, this disruption hasn’t deterred cybercriminals from using file-encrypting ransomware. In fact, we saw new crypto-ransomware variants that use new…
Read MoreEduardo Altares II
Research Engineer
While looking into recent reports about the Winnti malware family, we discovered another backdoor which was built using similar techniques and has other similarities as well. It is also possible that it is being used in similar targeted attacks. We found this particular threat via feedback provided by the Smart Protection Network; we detect it…
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