VIRUS-NEWS
A Zebrocy Go Downloader
by GReAT11 Jan 2019 at 10:00am
The Sofacy subset we identify as ?Zebrocy? continues to target Central Asian government related organizations, both in-country and remote locations, along with a new middle eastern diplomatic target. And, as predicted, they continue to build out their malware set with a variety of scripts and man...
The world?s southernmost security conference
by Dmitry Bestuzhev10 Jan 2019 at 10:00am
In November I had the privilege of participating in a conference that can rightfully be labelled the world's southernmost. It is called "Patagonia Hacking" and it is organized in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas
Remotely controlled EV home chargers ? the threats and vulnerabilities
by Kaspersky Lab13 Dec 2018 at 10:00am
There are lots of home charger vendors. Some of them, such as ABB or GE, are well-known brands, but some smaller companies have to add ?bells and whistles? to their products to attract customers. One of the most obvious and popular options in this respect is remote control of the charging process...
Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)
by Boris Larin12 Dec 2018 at 8:00am
In October 2018, our AEP systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows. Further analysis led us to uncover a zero-day vulnerability in ntoskrnl.exe.
DarkVishnya: Banks attacked through direct connection to local network
by Sergey Golovanov6 Dec 2018 at 10:00am
In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to research a series of cybertheft incidents. Each attack had a common springboard: an unknown device directly connected to the company?s local network.
APT review of the year
by Vicente Diaz5 Dec 2018 at 2:00pm
What were the most interesting developments in terms of APT activity throughout the year and what can we learn from them? Not an easy question to answer. Still, with the benefit of hindsight, let?s try to approach the problem from different angles to get a better understanding of what went on.
KoffeyMaker: notebook vs. ATM
by Sergey Golovanov4 Dec 2018 at 12:00pm
Kaspersky Lab? experts investigated one such toolkit, dubbed KoffeyMaker, in 2017-2018, when a number of Eastern European banks turned to us for assistance after their ATMs were quickly and almost freely raided. It soon became clear that we were dealing with a black box attack.
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics
by AMR4 Dec 2018 at 10:00am
During the year, Kaspersky Lab solutions repelled 1 876 998 691 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world, 554 159 621 unique malicious objects were detected and 21 643 946 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components.
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories
by David Emm3 Dec 2018 at 10:00am
All too often, both rely on manipulating human psychology as a way of compromising entire systems or individual computers. Increasingly, the devices targeted also include those that we don?t consider to be computers ? from children?s toys to security cameras. Here is our annual round-up of major ...
First Annual Cyberwarcon
by Kurt Baumgartner29 Nov 2018 at 7:14pm
Cyberwarcon is a brand new event organized yesterday in Arlington, Virginia, and delivered eight hours of fantastic content. The list of speakers was diverse in their interests, from big data visualization technologies and analysis of social media misinformation campaigns, to incidents of Russian...
