Melissa Frydrych - Threat Hunt Researcher, IBM

Threat Hunt Researcher, IBM

Melissa is an analyst on the Threat Hunt & Discovery Team within IBM X-Force. She has over 9 years of experience, investigating and analyzing cyber threat activity, beginning her career as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst supporting joint commands overseas and domestically, and later working for the federal government as a contractor prior to joining IBM in 2018. Melissa holds degrees in Security Intelligence, Criminal Justice, and an advanced degree in Digital Forensics.

Malware April 26, 2022

Hive0117 Continues Fileless Malware Delivery in Eastern Europe

4 min read - Through continued research into the ongoing cyber activity throughout Eastern Europe, IBM Security X-Force identified a phishing email campaign by Hive0117, likely a financially motivated cybercriminal group, from February 2022, designed to deliver the fileless malware variant dubbed DarkWatchman. The…

Malware December 15, 2021

Nation State Threat Group Targets Airline with Aclip Backdoor

8 min read - IBM Security X-Force has observed a state-sponsored adversary using a new backdoor that utilizes Slack to attack airline organizations. The adversary leveraged free workspaces on Slack, a legitimate messaging and collaboration application likely to obfuscate operational communications, allowing malicious traffic,…

Advanced Threats July 12, 2021

RoboSki and Global Recovery: Automation to Combat Evolving Obfuscation

12 min read - In a recent collaboration to investigate a rise in malware infections featuring a commercial remote access trojan (RAT), IBM Security X-Force and Cipher Tech Solutions (CT), a defense and intelligence security firm, investigated malicious activity that spiked in the first…

Security Services April 14, 2021

An Update: The COVID-19 Vaccine’s Global Cold Chain Continues to Be a Target

5 min read - In December 2020, IBM Security X-Force released a research blog disclosing that the COVID-19 cold chain — an integral part of delivering and storing COVID-19 vaccines at safe temperatures — was targeted by cyber adversaries. After that first report, we…

Government December 3, 2020

IBM Uncovers Global Phishing Campaign Targeting the COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Chain

6 min read - At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, IBM Security X-Force created a threat intelligence task force dedicated to tracking down COVID-19 cyber threats against organizations that are keeping the vaccine supply chain moving. As part of these efforts, our team recently…

Government April 27, 2020

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Hive0117 Continues Fileless Malware Delivery in Eastern Europe

Nation State Threat Group Targets Airline with Aclip Backdoor

RoboSki and Global Recovery: Automation to Combat Evolving Obfuscation

An Update: The COVID-19 Vaccine’s Global Cold Chain Continues to Be a Target

IBM Uncovers Global Phishing Campaign Targeting the COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Chain

SBA Spoofed in COVID-19 Spam to Deliver Remcos RAT

TA505 Continues to Infect Networks With SDBbot RAT

EnigmaSpark: Politically Themed Cyber Activity Highlights Regional Opposition to Middle East Peace Plan

Public Sector Security Is Lagging — How Can State and Local Governments Better Defend Against Cyberattacks in 2020?

More_eggs, Anyone? Threat Actor ITG08 Strikes Again

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