Platinum is back
In June 2018, we came across an unusual set of samples spreading throughout South and Southeast Asian countries targeting diplomatic, government and military entities....
First Annual Cyberwarcon
Cyberwarcon is a brand new event organized yesterday in Arlington, Virginia, and delivered eight hours of fantastic content. “CyberwarCon is a one-day conference in...
Spam and phishing in Q1 2019
Quarterly highlights
Valentine’s Day
As per tradition, phishing timed to coincide with lovey-dovey day was aimed at swindling valuable confidential information out of starry-eyed users, such...
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2018
H2 2018 in figures
All statistical data used in this report was collected using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a distributed antivirus network. The data...
Bots and botnets in 2018
Due to the wide media coverage of incidents involving Mirai and other specialized botnets, their activities have become largely associated with DDoS attacks. Yet...
DDoS attacks in Q1 2019
News overview
The start of the year saw the appearance of various new tools in the arsenal of DDoS-attack masterminds. In early February, for instance,...
I know what you did last summer, MuddyWater blending in the crowd
Introduction
MuddyWater is an APT with a focus on governmental and telco targets in the Middle East (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon)...
Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019
Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019
Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019
Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions
The past few years have been very...
FIN7.5: the infamous cybercrime rig “FIN7” continues its activities
On August 1, 2018, the US Department of Justice announced that it had arrested several individuals suspected of having ties to the FIN7 cybercrime...
Project TajMahal – a sophisticated new APT framework
Executive summary
‘TajMahal’ is a previously unknown and technically sophisticated APT framework discovered by Kaspersky Lab in the autumn of 2018. This full-blown spying framework...