#PHOTOMINER WORM SERIES#

The bagworm nest is made of silk, twigs, and bits of leaves. Each bagworm spins its own cocoon nest, where it spends most of its life. Bagworm cocoons are the nests where the caterpillars live. NEWS & INDUSTRY Malware A worm observed in thousands of attacks this year features sophisticated protection mechanisms that allow it to remain on infected systems for years, GuardiCore security researchers warn.

#PHOTOMINER WORM SERIES#

The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data. In December 2016 I posted the first of a two-part blog series, the second of which posted in April this year, to start a series of regular threat report updates to the public covering different sets of countries from around the EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) region. Bagworm cocoons (‘bags’) dangling from trees. Check out our discovery of the PhotoMiner Ransomware Campaign Over the past few months, we’ve been following a new type of worm we namedPhotoMiner. PhotoMiner Worm Spreads via Insecure FTP Servers.

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