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A new website explains data breach risk
Data breaches are so common that even a theft of a billion records of seriously confidential information barely makes the news. It’s business as usual. Part of the problem is that all the data...
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How to spot malicious mobile apps
The pervasiveness of smartphones has resulted in an onslaught of mobile apps, and it’s pretty safe to say that, by now, there is an app for every imaginable purpose. Unfortunately, among the many...
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IT threat evolution Q2 2017. Statistics
According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 342, 566, 061 malicious attacks from online resources located in 191 countries all over the world. 33, 006, 783 unique URLs were...
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Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack
Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack...
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Motivation roulette: Is pseudo-ransomware a term?
It used to be so simple. Attack campaigns were relatively simple to determine, for example when we detailed the recent Shamoon campaign it was clear that this was intended to disrupt the victim. In...
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Researchers pull off DNA-based malicious code injection attack
Researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to create synthetic DNA strands containing malicious computer code that, if sequenced and analyzed, could compromise a computer. The main goal of their...
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Unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and troubling browsing behaviors
As adoption of cloud and mobile continues to rise, common employee practices inside and outside the workplace create risk for enterprises. To uncover the risks posed by users’ data-related habits,...
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CowerSnail, from the creators of SambaCry
We recently reported about SambaCry, a new family of Linux Trojans exploiting a vulnerability in the Samba protocol. A week later, Kaspersky Lab analysts managed to detect a malicious program for...
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macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities
LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware...
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A King’s Ransom It is Not
The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves “The ShadowBrokers”. These WannaCry and...
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Destruction of Service attacks could shut down organizations for good
The Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report (MCR) uncovers the rapid evolution of threats and the increasing magnitude of attacks, and forecasts potential Destruction of Service attacks, which could...
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The Magala Trojan Clicker: A Hidden Advertising Threat
The golden age of Trojans and viruses has long gone. Malicious programs created by enthusiasts for research purposes and for fun are now largely confined to history books and dusty computer incident...
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Enterprises face 3,680 potential phishing emails each week
GreatHorn analyzed more than 3.5 terabytes of data – over 373 million corporate emails – to gain insights into the sheer volume of email threats facing enterprises and the role of automated tools in...
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Symantec to Acquire Mobile Security Firm Skycure
Just three days after announcing that it would acquire Fireglass, Symantec announced that it has agreed to acquire mobile security firm Skycure. Founded in 2012 by two former members of Israel Defense...
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Are massive cyberattacks the new normal?
When domain name system services supplier Dyn got hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last October, waves of traffic overwhelmed the company’s network and disrupted access to the...
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Think the ExPetr epidemic doesn’t concern you? Think again
Recent, urgent reports about global cyberattacks revealed that most victims were large businesses. That doesn’t mean ordinary computer users should relax. What causes trouble for big business does...
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From BlackEnergy to ExPetr
Much has been written about the recent ExPetr/NotPetya/Nyetya/Petya outbreak – you can read our findings here:Schroedinger’s Pet(ya) and ExPetr is a wiper, not ransomware. As in the case of Wannacry,...
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Forget about the malware, go after the attacker’s tactics, techniques and...
The cybercriminal’s options for monetizing attacks has never been broader, less complex, or less risky, and attempts to detect intrusions by detecting the malware they use has never been more...
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The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea
The National Security Agency has linked the North Korean government to the creation of the WannaCry computer worm that affected more than 300,000 people in some 150 countries last month, according to...
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International operation targets customers of counter anti-virus and crypter...
Between 5 and 9 June, 6 suspects were arrested and 36 were interviewed during an internationally coordinated operation in 6 European countries. The targets are all suspected customers of a counter...
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