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Kaspersky analysis of an installer first classified as adware (MD5 c24e99f9437feacaa63766a3cde3fe3d) found that it delivers the ValleyRAT backdoor. The installer drops a modified, signed Chinese wallpaper tool, QN Wallpaper, and uses it for DLL sideloading of a malicious libcef.dll. The adware's advertising function does not work. Attacke…
Kaspersky identified MovieReaper, a previously unknown modular, multi-stage crimeware framework distributed since mid-August 2026 through movie-themed torrents, including fake "The Odyssey (2026)" releases. Rather than compromising individual trackers, the actor modified the public torrent file repository itorrents.org, so trackers relyin…
Toy Ghouls (aka Bearlyfy, Laboo.boo, Feral Wolf), a financially motivated group targeting Russian organizations since 2025, was observed in early July 2026 using a custom backdoor for the first time. Kaspersky GERT identified two versions, mqtt-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over the public HiveMQ MQTT broker) and matrix-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over a…
Kaspersky GERT reports that the NightEagle APT (also tracked as APT-Q-95), active since at least 2023 and previously focused on Asia, is now attacking businesses in Russia. The attackers usually gain access through compromised valid credentials on corporate VPNs, connecting from Russian IPs tied to Cloudflare WARP tunnels and from Europea…
In April 2026, Kaspersky GERT responded to an incident at a Middle East manufacturing organization where the actor gained domain admin-equivalent control of Active Directory. The actor created and linked a malicious GPO named PAYLOAD at the domain root. It pushed ransom notes, a wallpaper and lock screen, a logon banner and a local admini…
Kaspersky's Q2 2026 vulnerability landscape report records an unprecedented number of registered CVEs, including critical ones. It attributes the surge mainly to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and AI-generated code. Researchers are also publishing exploits for unpatched flaws more often. One example is Nightmare Eclipse (Chaotic Ecli…
Kaspersky researchers report that the APT group Mirage Kitten has moved from native C/C++/Go malware to Node.js and JavaScript implants, NodeRabbit and PollCat. Both are cross-platform RATs delivered through spear-phishing by fake recruiters on LinkedIn and other job platforms, using trojanized coding-challenge archives hosted on Amazon S…
Kaspersky Security Services published a threat-model paper on how attackers can compromise modern logistics warehouses. It follows an order through eight fulfillment stages: unloading, receiving, putaway, storage, picking, sorting, packing and shipment. The paper identifies the warehouse management system (WMS) as the highest-value target…
