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Since January, Ukraine has been targeted by several wiper malware families. In early February, we reported on the WhisperGate wiper. Earlier this month we spotlighted HermeticWiper and IsaacWiper. Ukraine was recently under attack by yet another wiper malware. ESET announced the discovery of CaddyWiper on March 14th in a tweet. Cisco Talos followed up a day later with more information on this malware.
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Qualys recently published a blog post on AvosLocker ransomware, which targets both Windows and Linux operating systems.
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Iranian threat actor group Muddy Water has been very active in the last few months. In February, CISA issued an alert warning that the group was conducting a campaign targeting global government and commercial networks. Earlier this month, Cisco’s Talos Intelligence published a blog post on Muddy Water activity targeting Turkey and other countries.
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Last month HP published research on RedLine Stealer, a stealer malware being delivered via fake Windows 11 updates. Almost a month later, RedLine Stealer continues to be active in the wild, with new samples surfacing over the past week.
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CERT-UA, the Ukraine government’s incident response team, recently released a report on MicroBackdoor. CERT-UA did not provide further information on the scope of the incident leading to the discovery of this malware.
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Cyble recently published research on Jester Stealer, an info stealer known to harvest login credentials, cookies, payment card details, and other information.
