Users Clicking Through Warnings, Leading to RAT Infections

CyberThreatAlliance, of which ReversingLabs is a contributing member, published an analysis on one of the most lucrative ransomware attacks

Multi-layered payloads can yield clues to hacker identity and intentions when successfully unpacked and analyzed.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), McAfee Labs, Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), co-founders of the industry's first cyber threat alliance, today announced that Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), ReversingLabs, Telefónica, and Zscaler have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance in its efforts to make united progress in the fight against sophisticated cyber adversaries.

Recorded Future brought in a cyber expert, Mario Vuksan, the CEO of Reversing Labs, to investigate the technical aspects of the new software. Vuksan essentially reverse-engineered the 2013 encryption updates and found not only more sophisticated.

ReversingLabs contributes to the HP Cyber Risk Report 2013.