Breach Prevention Blog - Threat Research

During November, Morphisec identified a brand-new variant of Babuk ransomware while investigating a customer's prevention event. Babuk was first discovered at the beginning of 2021, when it began targeting businesses to steal and encrypt data in...

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a record on a blockchain associated with a digital or physical asset—usually a digital file such as a photo, video, or audio. An NFT’s ownership is recorded in the blockchain, and it can be sold and traded. NFTs differ...

The DoNot Team (a.k.a APT-C-35) are advanced persistent threat actors who’ve been active since at least 2016. They’ve targeted many attacks against individuals and organizations in South Asia. DoNot are reported to be the main developers and users...

To help protect the public, Morphisec Labs constantly monitors, investigates, and assesses the latest threats to help organizations avoid serious consequences. In recent months, threats involving infostealers have escalated. This report analyzes six...

With 50% more users last year than in 2020, the number of people using the community chat platform Discord is growing at a blistering pace. This has led cybercriminals to refine and expand malicious attack use cases for the platform. In this threat...

The Morphisec Labs team has conducted research on the new Mars infostealer. Mars is based on the older Oski Stealer and was first discovered in June 2021. The new Mars is available for sale on several underground forums and is reported to be under...

With examples changing hands for up to $69 million, hosting digital content on blockchain and selling it to investors has become one of the most lucrative things creators can do. And as rock stars, international artists, and even politicians keep...

Morphisec, through its breach prevention with Moving Target Defense technology, has identified a new, sophisticated campaign delivery which has been successfully evading the radar of many security vendors. Through a simple email phishing tactic...

The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than $2.5 trillion. Unfortunately, this fact is not lost on threat actors. As well as using cryptocurrency themselves to extract ransoms, cybercriminals are now also tailoring malware to exploit the...

• The Go language is becoming increasingly popular among threat actors, with attacks starting to appear in 2019
• Morphisec Labs has tracked a new Golang-based (1.17) ransomware variant that appeared starting in late September and continued...

• Morphisec Labs tracked a new MirrorBlast campaign targeting financial services organizations 
• MirrorBlast is delivered via a phishing email that contains malicious links which download a weaponized Excel document
• MirrorBlast has low detections on...

In 2020, Morphisec introduced the Jupyter infostealer, a .NET attack that primarily targets Chromium, Firefox, and Chrome browser data while also maintaining the additional capabilities of a backdoor. 

On July 2, 2021, our Cloud Workload Protection Platform, Morphisec Keep, successfully identified and prevented a REvil ransomware infection in customer domains. This attack was automatically blocked in real time due to Morphisec's proactive...

In the past month, Morphisec has investigated the origin of several increasingly prevalent infostealers. These include Redline, Taurus, Tesla, and Amadey.

As part of our research, we identified pay-per-click (PPC) ads in Google’s search results that...

The Morphisec Labs team has been tracking an ongoing RAT delivery campaign that started in February this year. This campaign is unique in its heavy use of the AutoHotKey scripting language—a fork of the AutoIt language frequently used for testing...

Morphisec has recently monitored a highly sophisticated Crypter-as-a-Service that delivers numerous RAT families onto target machines.

The Crypter is most commonly delivered through phishing emails, which lead to the download of a visual basic...

The developers of the Phobos ransomware have added new fileless and evasive techniques to their arsenal. Constantly keeping their attack up to date helps them bypass detection technologies through several distinct approaches, the latest of which we...

In 2021 Morphisec identified increased usage of the “HCrypt” crypter. In this post, we lockpick “HCrypt”—a crypter as a service marketed as a FUD (fully undetectable) loader for the client's RAT of choice. We chose to dissect the crypter’s...

The MineBridge RAT was first identified in January 2020 by security researchers at FireEye. They observed the backdoor attacking financial institutions in the United States and targets in South Korea as well. MineBridge was initially classified as...

Introducing egregor ransomware

Egregor is considered to be one of the most prolific ransomware threat groups. Yet it gained this reputation in a very short time due to its uncompromising double extortion methodology.