The New Year has brought more solutions to improve the security of the Polish Internet. One of them is Artemis, a tool developed by the CERT Polska team and initiated by the KN Cyber science club of Warsaw University of Technology. Artemis was designed to look for websites misconfigurations and vulnerabilities on a mass scale. We use it to verify infrastructure of entities for which, according to the National Cyber Security System Act, incident handling is coordinated by CSIRT NASK.

While working on our automatic configuration extractors, we came across a rather strange-looking Vidar sample. The decrypted strings included domain names of such organizations as the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Border Guard of Poland, Estonia and Latvia, and Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania. Automatically extracted strings from …

Why SECURE? Do you value hard work and facing challenges? Do you want to meet people like you, share your job results, look for inspiration or partners to mutual projects? You can find it all in October on our conference. We invite you to contribute to the agenda of the …

With the help of telecommunications operators, we are starting a war against phishing sites that target personal data, banking information and social media accounts. In response to the growing number of phishing incidents related to the coronavirus pandemic, we are launching a list of malicious domains targeting Polish users. It …

We are happy to announce that we are releasing a free decryption tool for the Mapo (a GarrantyDecrypt/Outsider variant) ransomware today. We would also like to thank Maciej Kotowicz of Kaspersky’s GReAT for sharing his insights on the ransomware’s encryption process. Our tool works with encrypted files …

Analysis of current threats is one of the most common challenges facing almost any organization dealing with cybersecurity. From year to year, it also becomes a harder nut to crack, being undoubtedly influenced by the growing scale of activities undertaken by criminals and the degree of their advancement. In the …

CERT Polska has partnered together with Microsoft, ESET and law enforcement agencies including US-CERT/DHS, FBI, Interpol and Europol in activities aimed at disrupting of the Dorkbot malware family. This disruption – which includes sinkholing of the botnet’s infrastructure – took place yesterday. Dorkbot is a well-known family of malware, operating …

Intro Dridex mostly comes to us as spam which contains a .doc with some macros, responsible for downloading a dropper. One can quickly analyze it using oledump.py and looking through vbscript, or naturally, just try to run it in a sandbox and obtain the dropped files. CFG extraction After …

CERT Polska along with 19 other partners from 11 countries have joined forces for CyberROAD – a 7FP project aimed to identify current and future issues in the fight against cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism in order to draw a strategic roadmap for cyber security research. A detailed snapshot of the technological, social …

Today, we published the annual CERT Polska report in its English version. This report presents the most important trends and observations that we think shaped Polish cybersecurity in 2014. This includes new, upcoming threats, their evolution and our responses to them. In 2014 CERT Polska continued its effort to better …