A Slice of 2017 Sofacy Activity
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a highly active and prolific APT. From their high volume 0day deployment to...
Spam and phishing in 2017
Figures of the year
The share of spam in mail traffic came to 56.63%, down 1.68% against 2016.
The biggest source of spam remains the US...
A vulnerable driver: lesson almost learned
Recently, we started receiving suspicious events from our internal sandbox Exploit Checker plugin. Our heuristics for supervisor mode code execution in the user address...
Gas is too expensive? Let’s make it cheap!
A few months ago, while undertaking unrelated research into online connected devices, we uncovered something surprising and realized almost immediately that we could be...
Every little bitcoin helps
It often happens that inventions and technologies that start out good end up turning into dangerous tools in the hands of criminals. Blockchain is...
Cybercriminals target early IRS 2018 refunds now
On Monday, Jan 29th, IRS officially opened its 2018 season. Some taxpayers already filed their taxes and cybercriminals know it too. So, right after...
Denis and Co.
In April 2017, we published a detailed review of a malicious program that used DNS tunneling to communicate to its C&C. That study prompted...
Skygofree: Following in the footsteps of HackingTeam
At the beginning of October 2017, we discovered new Android spyware with several features previously unseen in the wild. In the course of further...
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3 practical ways AI threat detection improves enterprise cyber resilience
Why “more alerts” isn’t the same as better security If you run security in an enterprise environment, you already know...
North Korean Hackers Use Fake IT Worker Scheme to Infiltrate Companies and Evade Sanctions
North Korea has been running one of the most quietly effective cyber fraud operations in recent years. State-sponsored operatives working for the Pyongyang...
[R1] Nessus Versions 10.11.4 and 10.12.0 Fixes Arbitrary File Deletion
Nessus Versions 10.11.4 and 10.12.0 Fixes Arbitrary File Deletion Jason Schavel Thu, 04/23/2026 - 14:30
A vulnerability has been identified in Nessus on...
It pays to be a forever student
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. If I haven’t said it in a newsletter before, I'll say it now: If you want to be good...
