In January 2023, and throughout April and June, Morphisec identified an alarming trend where numerous clients, primarily within the financial and logistics sectors, faced an onslaught of attacks due to a new and advanced variant of the Chaes malware.

This isn’t an ordinary Chaes variant. It has undergone major overhauls: the variant had been rewritten entirely in Python, used an enhanced communication protocol, and boasted a suite of new modules that expanded its malicious capabilities.

Morphisec published an extensive research paper on the new variant, naming it “Chae$ 4” (Chae$4) with the threat actor(s) identified as “Lucifer.”

Morphisec’s discovery sent reverberations through the cybersecurity landscape, covered in SC Media, Bleeping Computer, The Hacker News and The CyberWire.

In January 2023, and throughout April and June, Morphisec identified an alarming trend where numerous clients, primarily within the financial and logistics sectors, faced an onslaught of attacks due to a new and advanced variant of the Chaes malware.

This isn’t an ordinary Chaes variant. It has undergone major overhauls: the variant had been rewritten entirely in Python, used an enhanced communication protocol, and boasted a suite of new modules that expanded its malicious capabilities.

Morphisec published an extensive research paper on the new variant, naming it “Chae$ 4” (Chae$4) with the threat actor(s) identified as “Lucifer.”

Morphisec’s discovery sent reverberations through the cybersecurity landscape, covered in SC Media, Bleeping Computer, The Hacker News and The CyberWire.