VIRUS-NEWS
Zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server
by Vladimir Kuskov, Alexey Kulaev, Nikita Galimov4 Mar 2021 at 5:20pm
The four vulnerabilities inside Microsoft Exchange Server allow an attacker to gain access to all registered email accounts, or to execute arbitrary code (RCE) within the Exchange Server context.
Mobile malware evolution 2020
by Victor Chebyshev1 Mar 2021 at 2:00pm
In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans and 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans.
The state of stalkerware in 2020
by Kaspersky26 Feb 2021 at 8:00am
The 2020 data shows that the stalkerware situation has not improved much: the number of affected people is still high. A total of 53,870 unique users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020.
Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle
by Vyacheslav Kopeytsev, Seongsu Park25 Feb 2021 at 10:00am
In mid-2020, we realized that Lazarus was launching attacks on the defense industry using the ThreatNeedle cluster, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (a.k.a. NukeSped). While investigating this activity, we were able to observe the complete life cycle of an attack, uncovering more technic...
DDoS attacks in Q4 2020
by Oleg Kupreev, Ekaterina Badovskaya, Alexander Gutnikov16 Feb 2021 at 10:00am
Q4 2020 in terms of DDoS attacks: DDoS market fall, bitcion rise, careful prognoses.
Spam and phishing in 2020
by Tatyana Kulikova, Tatyana Shcherbakova, Tatyana Sidorina15 Feb 2021 at 10:00am
COVID-19 spam, corporate phishing, fake videoconferences and other trends and figures of 2020.
How kids coped with COVID-hit winter holidays
by Anna Larkina4 Feb 2021 at 10:00am
We analyzed and categorized the most popular websites and search queries over the festive period (December 20, 2020 ? January 10, 2021) to find out how kids compensated for the lack of outdoor winter entertainment.
Privacy predictions for 2021
by Anna Larkina, Vladislav Tushkanov, Dmitry Momotov28 Jan 2021 at 10:00am
With privacy more often than not being traded for convenience, we believe that for many 2020 has fundamentally changed how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in exchange for security and access to digital services.
Sunburst backdoor ? code overlaps with Kazuar
by Georgy Kucherin, Igor Kuznetsov, Costin Raiu11 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.
