Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, APT trends, a mystery company’s 250K bug bounty, and a high schooler’s $10K bug bounty from Google.

Attackers behind APT campaigns have kept busy in Q2 2017, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users and maintain persistence on machines.

Microsoft has found a file-transfer tool used by the Platinum APT that leverages Intel Active Management Technology to stealthily load malware onto networked computers.

Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered the StrongPity APT, a group that uses watering hole attacks to infect machines of users seeking encryption technologies such as WinRAR and TrueCrypt.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss this week’s Virus Bulletin conference in Denver and CNBC’s Cambridge Cyber Summit at MIT, the NSA contractor arrest, APT false flags, and more.

Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team shared some insight into their day-to-day investigations...

A scathing congressional report points the finger at hackers sponsored by the Chinese government for their role in a series of hacks against the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). The report also alleges the agency covered up the hacks in order to guarantee the appointment of current chairman Martin J. Gruenberg. The report from...

A five-year campaign primarily focused on extracting sensitive information from Japanese oil, gas, and electric utilities was outlined by researchers on Tuesday. Referred to as Operation Dust Storm (.PDF) by researchers at Cylance, the campaign has managed to stay persistent over the years, and especially lately, by using dynamic DNS domains and customized backdoors. While the group...

A new analysis of the Sofacy APT gang, a Russian-speaking group carrying out targeted attacks against military and government offices for close to a decade, shows a relentless wave of intrusions peaking this summer against victims in a number of NATO countries and the Ukraine. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning released their update on...

An APT gang linked to China and alleged to be responsible for targeted attacks against foreign governments and ministries, has now pointed its focus inward at China’s autonomous territory Hong Kong. An August attack against several media companies in Hong Kong was carried out shortly after a high-profile controversy over an appointment at the prestigious...