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Vidar stealer campaign targeting Baltic region and NATO entities
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 …
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CFP Secure 2021
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 …
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List of malicious domains
This article is outdated. Please navigate to the new page to read the updated version. 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 …
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Free decryption tool for Mapo ransomware
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 …
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MWDB – our way to share information about malicious software
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 …
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Dorkbot botnets disruption
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 …
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Talking to Dridex (part 0) – inside the dropper
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 …
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24 July 2015 CERT Polska
CyberROAD – Invitation to participate in project surveys #2 & #3
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 …
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Threats in Polish networks – CERT Polska 2014 report (English version)
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 …
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Malware attack on both Windows and Android
On the 7th of May, 2015 we observed a new malicious e-mail campaign, which used the logo and the name of Polish Post Office (”Poczta Polska”). The e-mail supposedly informed about an undelivered package – however, they also included a link which, after several redirects, lead to the download of a …
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