Kurt Baumgartner

Principal Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team

Kurt joined Kaspersky in 2010. He researches and reports on targeted attack activity, complex intrusions, and advanced malware. He focuses on privacy and cryptography technologies. Kurt contributes to working groups and shares his findings with other members of various online communities. He regularly gives presentations on malware issues at international conferences and offers his thoughts to a variety of journalists and media about current cybersecurity matters. Prior to joining Kaspersky, Kurt was VP of Behavioral Threat Research at Symantec for PC Tools’ ThreatFire. Originally joining ThreatFire when it was a startup in 2005, Kurt was as their sole researcher and led their research efforts through two successful acquisitions. Before Symantec, Kurt was Chief Threat Officer at Novatix and a Threat Analyst at SonicWALL.

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BlindEagle vuela alto en LATAM

Kaspersky proporciona información sobre la actividad y los TTPs del APT BlindEagle. Grupo que apunta a organizaciones e individuos en Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panamá y otros países de América Latina.

MosaicRegressor: acechando en las sombras de UEFI

Encontramos una imagen de firmware de la UEFI infectada con un implante malicioso, es el objeto de esta investigación. Hasta donde sabemos, este es el segundo caso conocido en que se ha detectado un firmware malicioso de la UEFI usado por un actor de amenazas.

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