Researchers from Avast have discovered a flaw in the cryptographic schema of the DoNex ransomware and its predecessors. In cooperation with law enforcement organizations, we have been silently providing the …
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Avast discovered and analyzed a malware campaign hijacking an eScan antivirus update mechanism to distribute backdoors and coinminers
Avast disclosed the vulnerability to both eScan antivirus and India…
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Avast discovered an in-the-wild admin-to-kernel exploit for a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the appid.sys AppLocker driver.
Thanks to Avast’s prompt report, Microsoft addressed this vulnerability as CVE-2024-21338…
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HomuWitch is a ransomware strain that initially emerged in July 2023. Unlike the majority of current ransomware strains, HomuWitch targets end-users – individuals – rather than institutions and companies. Its …
In October 2023, we published a blog post containing technical analysis of the Rhysida ransomware. What we intentionally omitted in the blog post was that we had been aware of …
Babuk, an advanced ransomware strain, was publicly discovered in 2021. Since then, Avast has blocked more than 5,600 targeted attacks, mostly in Brazil, Czech Republic, India, the United States, and …