The Ukraine cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for working with Conti and LockBit ransomware operations to make their malware undetectable by antivirus software and conducting at least one attack himself.
A new malware campaign on Discord uses the Babadeda crypter to hide malware that targets the crypto, NFT, and DeFi communities.
Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypter service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware payloads and evade detection.
Multiple malware authors are using the "Ezuri" crypter and memory loader written in Go to evade detection by antivirus products. Source code for Ezuri is available on GitHub for anyone to use.
The TrickBot and Emotet Trojans have started to add text from Coronavirus news stories to attempt to bypass security software using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect malware.
The TrickBot malware has been spotted using text from articles about President Trump's impeachment to bypass the scanning engines of security software.