No holiday for Mydoom

We’ve intercepted a few samples of a new Mydoom variant this morning.

Infected messages contain the texts “Mery Chrismas & Happy New Year! 2005 will be the beginning!” and “Happy New year and wish you good luck on next year!”. So far it doesn’t seem to be an outbreak, but we are monitoring it closely.

Detection has been made available with the latest antivirus database update as “Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.ad”.

Kaspersky researchers have discovered new Mirage Kitten attacks using previously undocumented malware families: NodeRabbit in Node.js and PollCat in JavaScript.

Our experts discovered a new CoolClient backdoor variant with a kernel-mode rootkit driver that hides malicious processes, files, and network connections from security tools and threat analysts.

Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still Toolkit aimed at stealing Telegram data and eavesdropping on victims.

Kaspersky researchers reveal previously undocumented malware attributed to Mirage Kitten (UNC1549, Smoke Sandstorm, Nimbus Manticore): NightLedger backdoor, ArcBridge, and BridgeHead tunneling tools.