Lab Matters – Alexey Polyakov: “Corporate Incidents: Lessons Learned”

Alexey Polyakov is a Head of the Global Emergency Response Team of Kaspersky Lab – a new security policy consultation service for current and new corporate customers. Over the last 12 months this new service has responded to numerous incidents in which corporate customers’ networks have been targeted. As a result, Kaspersky Lab’s experts have noticed that in order to perpetrate new attacks and penetrate corporate boundaries, malware writers have developed a whole new array of methodologies.

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.