VIRUS-NEWS
Black Friday alert
by Kaspersky Lab15 Nov 2018 at 10:00am
According to our data, 14 malware families are targeting e-commerce brands to steal from victims. They are all banking Trojans. Detections of their e-commerce-related activity has increased steadily over the last few years, from 6.6 million in 2015 to an estimated 12.3 million by the end of 2018.
A new exploit for zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8589
by Boris Larin14 Nov 2018 at 7:00am
Yesterday, Microsoft published its security bulletin, which patches a vulnerability discovered by our technologies. We reported it to Microsoft on October 17, 2018. The company confirmed the vulnerability and assigned it CVE-2018-8589.
IT threat evolution Q3 2018. Statistics
by Victor Chebyshev12 Nov 2018 at 10:00am
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Q3 figures According to Kaspersky Security Network: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 947,027,517 attacks launched from online resources located in 203? Read Ful...
IT threat evolution Q3 2018
by David Emm12 Nov 2018 at 10:00am
LuckyMouse, mobile Trojan Asacub, BusyGasper, KeyPass ransomware and other notable targeted attacks and malware stories of Q3 2018.
Spam and phishing in Q3 2018
by Maria Vergelis6 Nov 2018 at 10:01am
In Q3 2018, the average share of spam in global mail traffic rose by 2.88 p.p. to 52.54%, and the Anti-Phishing system prevented more than 137 million redirects to phishing sites, up 30 million against the previous reporting period.
Hey there! How much are you worth?
by David Jacoby5 Nov 2018 at 10:00am
I decided to investigate the black market and see what kind of information is being sold there. We all know that you can buy drugs, weapons and stolen goods there, but you can also buy online identities. How much do you think your online identity is worth?
DDoS Attacks in Q3 2018
by Oleg Kupreev31 Oct 2018 at 9:00am
The third quarter 2018 turned out relatively quiet in terms of DDoS attacks. ?Relatively? because there were not very many high-level multi-day DDoS onslaughts on major resources. However, the capacities employed by cybercriminals keep growing year after year, while the total number of attacks sh...
Hackers attacking your memories: science fiction or future threat?
by Kaspersky Lab29 Oct 2018 at 10:00am
To better understand the potential future threat landscape facing memory implants, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group have undertaken a practical and theoretical threat review of existing neurostimulators and their supporting infrastructure.
Phishing for knowledge
by Nadezhda Demidova24 Oct 2018 at 10:00am
When we talk about phishing, top of mind are fake banking sites, payment systems, as well as mail and other globally popular services. However, cybercriminals have their fingers in far more pies than that. Unobviously, perhaps, students and university faculties are also in the line of fire.
Octopus-infested seas of Central Asia
by GReAT15 Oct 2018 at 10:00am
For the last two years we have been monitoring a Russian-language cyberespionage actor that focuses on Central Asian users. We named the actor DustSquad and have provided reports on four of their campaigns. In this blogpost we cover a malicious program for Windows called Octopus that mostly targe...
