Insikt Group expanded its tracking of malicious infrastructure in 2024, providing enhanced threat detection and analysis. Key trends included Cobalt Strike leading among offensive security tools, China and the US as top hosting locations, and law enforcement’s limited, temporary impacts. Emerging trends featured malware-as-a-service growing in popularity, and continued targeting of Android devices for mobile malware. The group predicts persistence of current trends in 2025, with expanding “as-a-service” ecosystems, increased mobile threats, and law enforcement endeavors showing promising impacts due to international cooperation.
Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer’s systems
A software developer, Davis Lu, has been found guilty of sabotaging his former employer’s systems by installing custom malware and a “kill switch”. After being
