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Josh Grunzweig, February 10, 2017
EDITION: Unit 42

Unit 42

Unique Office Loader Deploying Multiple Malware Families

Unit 42 analyzes unique office loader that leverages malicious macros that are used to deploy numerous malware families. …

Christopher Budd, December 16, 2016
EDITION: Unit 42

Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research Decem…

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have reported six vulnerabilities that have been fixed by Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. Th …

Robert Falcone, July 20, 2016
EDITION: Threat Prevention, Uncategorized, Unit 42

Unit 42

Technical Walkthrough: Office Test Persistence Method U…

As mentioned in our previous blog, we observed the Sofacy group using a new persistence mechanism that we call “Office Test” to load their Trojan each time the user opened Microsoft Office applica …

Bryan Lee and Josh Grunzweig, December 22, 2015
EDITION: Malware, Unit 42

Unit 42

BBSRAT Attacks Targeting Russian Organizations Linked t…

In late 2014, ESET presented an attack campaign that had been observed over a period of time targeting Russia and other Russian speaking nations, dubbed “Roaming Tiger”. The attack was found to he …