Patriot on the loose

A new variant in the Zafi (“HAZAFI” means “patriot” in hungarian) family started to spread earlier today and seems to be propagating pretty fast. Currently, Zafi.D is number one in the stats at http://virus.freemail.hu/, a position earned in just a few hours.

Detection for Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.d was delivered at around 9am Moscow time(GMT+3) in one of the morning’s antivirus database updates.

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.