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Introduction Sage is a new ransomware family, a variant of CryLocker. Currently it’s distributed by the same actors that are usually distributing Cerber, Locky and Spora. In this case malspam is the infection vector. Emails from the campaign contain only malicious zip file without any text. Inside zip attachment …

Introduction Nymaim was discovered in 2013. At that time it was only a dropper used to distribute TorrentLocker. In February 2016 it became popular again after incorporating leaked ISFB code, dubbed Goznym. This incarnation of Nymaim was interesting for us because it gained banking capabilities and became a serious threat …

Introduction Initially Evil was brought to our attention by an incident reported on 2017-01-08. By that time the Internet was completely silent on that threat and we had nothing to analyze. We found first working sample day later, on 2017-01-09. In this article we will shortly summarize our analysis and …

Campaign CryptoMix is another ransomware family that is trying to earn money by encrypting victims files and coercing them into paying the ransom. Until recently it was more known as CryptFile2, but for reasons unknown to us it was rebranded and now it’s called CryptoMix. It was observed in …

Tofsee, also known as Gheg, is another botnet analyzed by CERT Polska. Its main job is to send spam, but it is able to do other tasks as well. It is possible thanks to the modular design of this malware – it consists of the main binary (the one user downloads …

Necurs is one of the biggest botnets in the world – according to MalwareTech there are a couple millions of infected computers, several hundred thousand of which are online at any given time. Compromised computers send spam email to large number of recipients – usually the messages are created to look like …

Network traffic directed to dark address space of IPv4 protocol can be a good source of information about current state of the Internet. Despite the fact that no packets should be sent to such addresses, in practice various traffic types can be observed there, for example echoes of Denial of …

On 4th of July, Minister Anna Streżyńska, Krzysztof Pietraszkiewicz, chairman of Polish Bank Association and Director of NASK Wojciech Kamieniecki signed an agreement on establishing National CERT, intended as communications hub for governement administration and business to coordinate engagement against Internet threats. National CERT is a part of National Cybersecurity …

We hereby present you our report on security of Polish internet and of our activities in 2015. We have split the document in following parts: timeline, describing the crucial events, our activities, threat landscape and extensive statistics based on our data. We invite you to read the report and join …

At the beginning of the May here in Poland we have couple of free days. 3rd May is Constitution Day, and May 1st is Labour Day. Most of us use those days to unwind after winter, but some malware authors apparently didn’t: a few weeks ago, our friends started …