VIRUS-NEWS
Sunburst backdoor ? code overlaps with Kazuar
by Georgy Kucherin11 Jan 2021 at 10:00am
While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar. Our observations shows that Kazuar was used together with Turla tools during multiple breaches in past years.
Digital Footprint Intelligence Report
by Artur Akhmetov29 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
The Digital Footprint Intelligence Service announces the results of research on the digital footprints of governmental, financial and industrial organizations for countries in the Middle East region.
How we protect our users against the Sunburst backdoor
by Kaspersky23 Dec 2020 at 11:30am
The detection logic has been improved in all our solutions to ensure our customers protection. We continue to investigate cyberattack on SolarWinds and we will add additional detection once they are required.
Lazarus covets COVID-19-related intelligence
by Seongsu Park23 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. We have found evidence that the Lazarus group is going after intelligence that could help these efforts by attacking entities related to COVID-19 research.
Sunburst: connecting the dots in the DNS requests
by Igor Kuznetsov18 Dec 2020 at 1:00pm
We matched private and public DNS data for the SUNBURST-malware root C2 domain with the CNAME records, to identify who was targeted for further exploitation. In total, we analyzed 1722 DNS records, leading to 1026 unique target name parts and 964 unique UIDs.
The future of cyberconflicts
by Ivan Kwiatkowski18 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
Cyberspace conflicts can take a vast number of forms, but in the context of this article, we will only focus on two of them: cyber-warfare for intelligence purposes, and sabotage and interference with strategic systems in order to hinder a state?s ability to govern or project power.
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2020. Statistics
by AMR15 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
Kaspersky solutions blocked 666,809,967 attacks launched from online resources in various countries across the world, 173,335,902 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus.
Adaptive protection against invisible threats
by Oleg Zaitsev14 Dec 2020 at 12:00pm
In fact, in most medium-sized companies? cybersecurity strategies, even with an endpoint solution, there are likely to still be gaps that can and should be closed. In this article, we look at what those gaps are and how to fill them.
The story of the year: remote work
by Dmitry Galov10 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
In this report, we will focus mainly on what remote work means for businesses and employees from a security perspective.
Researchers call for a determined path to cybersecurity
by Pierre Delcher7 Dec 2020 at 10:00am
As members of a global community, we often feel that we are failing to achieve an adequate level of cybersecurity. We believe it can be explained by a lack of global willpower, double-dealing activities, and the lack of global regulations. Here, we develop these hypotheses and outline ideas to ad...
