VIRUS-NEWS
Cycldek: Bridging the (air) gap
by GReAT3 Jun 2020 at 10:00am
While investigating attacks related to a group named Cycldek post 2018, we were able to uncover various pieces of information on its activities that were not known thus far.
Kids on the Web in 2020
by Anna Larkina3 Jun 2020 at 10:00am
The world is witnessing an unprecedented demonstration of digital technology primarily helping children develop, rather than impede their development.
The zero-day exploits of Operation WizardOpium
by Boris Larin28 May 2020 at 10:00am
Back in October 2019 we detected a classic watering-hole attack that exploited a chain of Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-days. In this blog post we?d like to take a deep technical dive into the attack.
Spam and phishing in Q1 2020
by Tatyana Shcherbakova26 May 2020 at 10:00am
Glancing at the results of Q1 2020, we anticipate that the COVID-19 topic will continue to be actively used by cybercriminals for the foreseeable future. To attract potential victims, the pandemic will be mentioned even on "standard" fake pages and in spam mailings.
Aggressive in-app advertising in Android
by Igor Golovin25 May 2020 at 10:00am
We will look into a few examples of suspicious-looking ad modules that we discovered in popular apps earlier this year.
IT threat evolution Q1 2020
by David Emm20 May 2020 at 10:00am
Operation AppleJeus, news about Roaming Mantis, watering-hole websites in Asia, virus blast from the past and other targeted attacks and malware campaigns.
IT threat evolution Q1 2020. Statistics
by Victor Chebyshev20 May 2020 at 10:00am
Kaspersky solutions blocked 726,536,269 attacks launched from online resources across the globe, a total of 442,039,230 unique URLs were recognized as malicious.
Verizon?s 2020 DBIR
by Kurt Baumgartner19 May 2020 at 4:50pm
Verizon?s 2020 DBIR is out, you can download a copy or peruse their publication online. Kaspersky was a contributor once again, and we are happy to provide generalized incident data from our unique and objective research.
Cyberthreats on lockdown
by AMR14 May 2020 at 12:00pm
The pandemic has affected us all in some way, so it would be surprising if cybercriminals were an exception. Spammers and phishers were naturally the trailblazers in this but the entire cybercrime landscape has changed in the last few months.
COMpfun authors spoof visa application with HTTP status-based Trojan
by GReAT14 May 2020 at 10:00am
In autumn 2019 we published a story about how a COMpfun successor known as Reductor infected files on the fly to compromise TLS traffic. Later in November 2019 we revealed a new Trojan using the same code base as COMPFun.
