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On December 9th, 2021, reports surfaced about a new zero-day vulnerability, termed Log4j (Log4Shell), impacting Minecraft servers. Now, almost one week later, it is clear that countless millions of devices are at risk, and Log4j may rank among the...

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...

Almost a year after an international law enforcement effort supposedly defeated it, Emotet, aka "the world's most dangerous botnet," has returned. Earlier this week, German security researcher Luca Ebach reported seeing malware with Emotet-like...

Overview

• 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...

Overview

• 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...

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 approximately August 21, 2021, security researchers, cybersecurity leaders, and eventually the CISA began voicing concerns about the inevitable threat of LockFile ransomware attacks on a wide variety of ill-informed and unprepared victims. Threat...

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 file....

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.

Between January 15 and 20, Morphisec identified a significant campaign targeting multiple German customers in manufacturing. Targeted personnel were redirected to compromised websites that were, and still are, delivering advanced fileless...

Introduction

In this post, we cover the CinaRAT loader's evasive tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), as identified and prevented by Morphisec’s zero-trust endpoint security solution powered by Moving Target Defense technology. 

This report has been updated with assistance from the cybersecurity community.

Introduction

Morphisec Labs has been tracking FIN7 (Carbanak Group) activity for the past several years. Morphisec’s ability to collect rich forensic data from memory has...

An Infostealer is a trojan that is designed to gather and exfiltrate private and sensitive information from a target system. There is a large variety of info stealers active in the wild, some are independent and some act as a modular part of a...

Introduction

The Agent Tesla information stealer has been around since 2014. During the last two to three years, it's also had a significant distribution growth factor partially due to the fact that cracked versions of it have been leaked.