A Wiper Attack on a Venezuelan Oil Company: Reverse Engineering the Lotus Wiper that Disrupted PDVSA Systems

In early 2026, Kaspersky published an article identifying a new wiper-type malware called Lotus Wiper. This malware targeted the infrastructure of a Venezuelan oil company with the aim of disrupting its systems. However, what initially appeared to be a standard cybercrime proved to be something more significant when considering the context surrounding the Venezuelan oil Read More… »

Nation-State Actor’s Arsenal: An In-Depth Look at Lazarus’ ScoringMathTea

In October 2025, the ESET Research Team published an excellent article about the identification of a new instance of the Operation DreamJob cyberespionage campaign, conducted by the Lazarus APT Group, aligned with the North Korean government. This instance was identified by ESET as Gotta Fly, as it was determined that Lazarus was directing cyberattacks with Read More… »

Mustang Panda Employ Publoader Through ClaimLoader: Yes.. another DLL Side-Loading Technique Delivery via Phishing

In this new post I will analyze, once again, an execution chain of payloads delivered via Phishing from another Threat Actor China-Nexus, however, implementing the same TTP, yes, DLL Side-Loading! In this research, I will explore a campaign by Threat Actor Mustang Panda, identified in June 2025 by IBM’s X-Force, which targets the Tibetan community Read More… »

IcedID – Technical Malware Analysis [Second Stage]

In this report I will technical analyze the new IcedID malware, go deep through reverse engineering, debugging and detection engineering. Introduction The IcedID is a banking malware design to steal financial information from your victims. The IcedID malware is also know by MITRE ATT&CK as S0483, and has been around since 2017. The IcedID has Read More… »