Lab Matters: ROP Techniques in Exploit Kits

In this edition of the Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab’s senior anti-malware researcher Kurt Baumgartner discusses the use of ROP (return-oriented programming) techniques in vulnerability exploit packs. Baumgartner talks about how exploit packs and infected web sites launch drive-by attacks and provides a glimpse at the obfuscation tricks used by cyber-criminals.

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.