ViceLeaker Operation: mobile espionage targeting Middle East
In May 2018, we discovered a campaign targeting dozens of mobile Android devices belonging to Israeli citizens. Kaspersky spyware sensors caught the signal of...
Not-so-dear subscribers
Many people have had a run-in with subscriptions to mobile content providers. They appear out of the blue, and get discovered only when account...
Plurox: Modular backdoor
In February this year, a curious backdoor passed across our virtual desk. The analysis showed the malware to have a few quite unpleasant features....
What kids get up to online
Today’s children navigate the Internet better than adults. They are not afraid to try out new technology, and are quick to grasp new trends...
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....
Zebrocy’s Multilanguage Malware Salad
Zebrocy is Russian speaking APT that presents a strange set of stripes. To keep things simple, there are three things to know about Zebrocy
Zebrocy...
IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data.
Quarterly figures
According to Kaspersky Security...
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,...
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...
ScarCruft continues to evolve, introduces Bluetooth harvester
Executive summary
After publishing our initial series of blogposts back in 2016, we have continued to track the ScarCruft threat actor. ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking...
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Attackers Are Quick to Exploit vBulletin’s Latest 0-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Imperva’s Cloud WAF has identified instances of a new 0-day vulnerability being exploited within a matter of hours of the exploit being published.
On Monday...
Ransomware: two pieces of good news
“All your files have been encrypted.” How many times has this suddenly popped up on your screen? We hope never, because it’s one of...
A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running
Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive...
