The malware disables antivirus and EDR protections at the kernel level, clearing the path for credential harvesting, system reconnaissance, and eventual data exfiltration. An ongoing campaign, ...

For more than a year, a Russian-speaking threat actor targeted human resource (HR) departments with malware that delivers a new EDR killer named BlackSanta.

Those aren't toys. Malware used in a sophisticated spear-phishing and infostealing campaign by Russian bad actors includes a component dubbed BlackSanta that can shut down antivirus and EDR ...