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Seculert's Research Lab comprises a dedicated team of security experts and researchers working around the clock to detect new and emerging cyber threats. Based on their extensive security knowledge and cutting-edge technologies and tools for gathering information, our research team analyzes data collected from the wild and distributes this intelligence via our SaaS-based Cyber Threat Management service to our customers.

Latest Blog Posts

Ramnit Goes Social

Much has been written about the Ramnit worm and its transformation
into a financial malware. And now, Seculert's research lab has discovered that Ramnit recently started targeting Facebook accounts with considerable success, stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials worldwide, mostly from people in the UK and France.


Exploit Kits as a Service

The cybercrime ecosystem has often been compared to the legitimate business world. In fact, as the business world advances, we also see the cybercrime ecosystem taking similar steps - sometimes "copying" business models and trends.
Recently, Seculert Research Lab discovered that cybercriminals have also adopted the use of "cloud-based" solutions, and now offer their own "customers" (other cybercriminals) a SaaS solution for hosting and managing exploit kits and malware installs. We have dubbed this trend "Exploit Kits as a Service".

A Fresh New Hydra Head

Since Brian Krebs broke with the news about the merger between ZeuS and SpyEye, many security vendors have argued whether this information is true or just a rumor.
A week ago, Trend Micro Labs described what seemed to be the real SpyEye administration panel of the merged malware kit. Recent findings by Seculert Research Labs uncover that this may just be the tip of the iceberg. In fact, our researchers found that this piece of "Hydra" malware has a fresh new ZeuS head.

The New Trend in "Malware Evolution"

Back in the days when malware was more about fun and less about profit, the talk about "Malware Evolution" was very simplistic. These discussions focused mainly on the new client side features of the malware and how it behaves on the infected machine.
Today, the malware authors are all about profit, and they are doing everything in their power to make their malware as stealthy as possible.