Posts tagged with: threat research

In recent months, I have taken a keen interest in malware written in the Go programming language. Go, sometimes referred to as GoLang, was created by Google in 2009 and has gained additional popularity within the malware development community in recent years.While there have been an increased number of blogs in recent years discussing Go malware families, I wanted to know if this programming language was indeed on the rise when it pertained to malware. Additionally, I was curious what malware families would be most prevalent, as there is a notion among many that Go is primarily used by penetration testers and red teamers. With that in mind, I set out to collect as much malware written in Go as possible, and cluster it by malware family. The blog discusses my methodology of data collection and my results.

Unit 42’s EMEA bi-monthly threat report.

Alex Hinchliffe of Unit 42 examines recent threats targeting the EMEA region.

Unit 42 researchers uncover aggressive adware abusing third-party DroidPlugin framework on Android.

New research from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42: Targeted ransomware attacks Middle Eastern governments for political purposes.

Unit 42 researchers discover Google Play apps infected with malicious IFrames.

Unit 42 threat researchers have recently observed a threat group distributing new, custom developed malware. We have labelled this threat group the Gamaredon Group and our research shows that the Gamaredon Group has been active since at least 2013.

Downeks and Quasar RAT used in recent targeted attacks against governments. Get the full report from Unit 42.

Read the new Unit 42 Threat Brief for the latest update on Shamoon 2.

Unit 42 researcher analyzes new threat technique in this blog post on the farming of malicious documents to unravel ransomware.

In this third part of Unit 42’s Cybercrime Underground blog series, we’re taking a slightly different approach. In this blog we begin with data from a real attack in the wild, and use the evidence from that attack to make a connection back to underground forums and the actors who are using them. Rather than starting

Overview Shifu is a Banking Trojan first discovered in 2015. Shifu is based on the Shiz source code which incorporated techniques used by Zeus. Attackers use Shifu to steal credentials for online banking websites around the world, starting in Russia but later including the UK, Italy, and others. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 research has

Introduction As we head towards the end of the year it’s common to reflect on the year almost behind us and to predict what the new year approaching will bring in terms of security challenges. This blog is part of a series that describe malware trends seen in the EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa)

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have reported six vulnerabilities that have been fixed by Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. This includes two vulnerabilities in Apple WebKit and impacts iCloud for Windows, Safari, iTunes for Windows, tvOS and iOS. CVE-2016-7639: Tongbo Luo CVE-2016-7642:

Recently, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reported on a new exploitation platform that we called “DealersChoice” in use by the Sofacy group (AKA APT28, Fancy Bear, STRONTIUM, Pawn Storm, Sednit).  As outlined in our original posting, the DealersChoice exploitation platform generates malicious RTF documents which in turn use embedded OLE Word documents. These embedded OLE