Greetings from Ottawa

Hello from rainy Ottawa, which is hosting the annual Virus Bulletin Conference.

This time, the conference is a bit more important for us, as there’ll be no less than three Kaspersky presentations over the two next days.

David Emm kicks off the conference with the first presentation in the corporate stream, on the Malware Ecosystem. (http://www.virusbtn.com)

The day after tomorrow, Andrey Bakhmutov (http://www.virusbtn.com) will talk about tracking botnets that send spam in real time. And Darya Gudkova (http://www.virusbtn.com) from our Spam Lab will take the stage to provide a view on the russian spam factories.

The full program along with short abstracts for each speech can be found here: http://www.virusbtn.com

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.