ShadowPad backdoor

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2019
Kaspersky speculates the involvement of ShadowPad attackers in Operation ShadowHammer

Experts at Kaspersky Lab linked the recent supply-chain attack targeted ASUS users to the “ShadowPad” threat actor and the CCleaner incident. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab linked the recent supply-chain attack that hit ASUS users (tracked as Operation ShadowHammer) to the “ShadowPad” threat actor. Experts also linked the incident to the supply chain attack that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2017
ShadowPad backdoor was spread in corporate networks through software update mechanism

Kaspersky Lab discovered attackers were able to modify the NetSarang software update process to include a malware tracked as ShadowPad backdoor. Software update mechanism could be an efficient attack vector, news of the day is that hackers compromised the update process for a popular server management software package developed by NetSarang. Attackers were able to […]