FIFA public Wi-Fi guide: which host cities have the most secure networks?
We all know how easy it is for users to connect to open Wi-Fi networks in public places. Well, it is equally straightforward for...
Netkids
Children today are completely at home in the digital space. They use digital diaries and textbooks at school, communicate via instant messaging, play games...
Trojan watch
We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we...
VPNFilter EXIF to C2 mechanism analysed
On May 23 2018, our colleagues from Cisco Talos published their excellent analysis of VPNFilter, an IoT / router malware which exhibits some worrying...
Backdoors in D-Link’s backyard
“If you want to change the world, start with yourself.” In the case of security research this can be rephrased to: “If you want...
Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually
In April 2018, Kaspersky Lab published a blogpost titled ‘Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones’. Roaming Mantis uses Android malware which...
IT threat evolution Q1 2018. Statistics
Q1 figures
According to KSN:
Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 796,806,112 attacks launched from online resources located in 194 countries across the globe.
282,807,433 unique URLs were...
OPC UA security analysis
This paper discusses our project that involved searching for vulnerabilities in implementations of the OPC UA protocol. In publishing this material, we hope to...
SynAck targeted ransomware uses the Doppelgänging technique
The Process Doppelgänging technique was first presented in December 2017 at the BlackHat conference. Since the presentation several threat actors have started using this...
Who’s who in the Zoo
ZooPark is a cyberespionage operation that has been focusing on Middle Eastern targets since at least June 2015. The threat actors behind the operation...