Since the last quarter of 2020 MuddyWater has maintained a “long-term” infection campaign targeting Middle East countries. We have gathered samples from November 2020 to January 2022, and due to the recent samples found, it seems that this campaign might still be currently active. The latest campaigns of the Muddy Water threat group, allegedly sponsored […]
Very very lazy Lazyscripter’s scripts: double compromise in a single obfuscation
In July of 2021, we identified an infection campaign targeting important European entities. During this investigation we could identify the threat actor behind these attacks as LazyScripter, an emerging APT group pointed by MalwareBytes in February 2021. Through our analysis, we could track their activity with precise dates in 2021 based on their samples. Furthermore, […]
Cuba Ransomware Analysis
Due to the recent warning published by the FBI about Cuba ransomware (original FBI warning no longer available online for unknown reasons), from Lab52 we decided to publish some information about this ransomware family. Despite the fact that the ransomware has been named Cuba, there is no clear evidence linking the country to the implementation […]
Winter Vivern – all Summer
In July, 2021, Lab52 found a currently active infection campaign (domain still up at the time of this writing) attributed to a group referred as Wintervivern after a report published by the research team from DomainTools. As the starting point for this research, we recently noticed that unless properly obfuscated, some functions in XLM macro […]
Quick review of Babuk ransomware builder
Last week, the builder for the Babuk ransomware family was leaked online. Lab52 has obtained and analyzed this builder sample determining that it is very likely to be authentic. After their recent official move from Ransomware as a Service to data leaks extortions, someone uploaded to virusTotal the ransomware builder for unknown reasons, and it […]
Literature lover targeting Colombia with LimeRAT
In the middle of the current brouhaha in Colombia, besides the intense hacktivism activity, some actors might be trying to take their move. Several campaigns aimed to Colombia have been detected, but today we will talk about one with a couple interesting details in their kill chain. This actor is starting the infection via email […]