Blueliv Intelligence Briefing
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Welcome to today’s intelligence briefing, covering noteworthy items on the cybersecurity news agenda.
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Glupteba: Hidden Malware Delivery in Plain Sight
About a month ago, researchers noticed a spike in the number of samples belonging to the same malware campaign, most of them with the filename app.exe. This malware, which turned out to belong to a family called Glupteba, spreads using EternalBlue, and downloads additional payloads. Glupteba malware does something novel: It uses the bitcoin blockchain as a communications channel to receive updated configuration information. Learn more >