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...
AZORult++: Rewriting history
The AZORult Trojan is one of the most commonly bought and sold stealers in Russian forums. Despite the relatively high price tag ($100), buyers...
A study of car sharing apps
The growing popularity of car sharing services has led some experts to predict an end to private car ownership in big cities. The statistics...
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...
Roaming Mantis part III: iOS crypto-mining and spreading via malicious content delivery system
In Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab published two blogposts about Roaming Mantis sharing details of this new cybercriminal campaign. In the beginning, the criminals used...
We know what your kids did this summer
For many kids and teenagers, summer is all about ditching school books in favor of hobbies and fun. Every year we release a report...
IT threat evolution Q2 2018
Targeted attacks and malware campaigns
Operation Parliament
In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial...
Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)
Executive summary
In October 2018, our AEP (Automatic Exploit Prevention) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Further...
Gas is too expensive? Let’s make it cheap!
A few months ago, while undertaking unrelated research into online connected devices, we uncovered something surprising and realized almost immediately that we could be...
Agent 1433: remote attack on Microsoft SQL Server
All over the world companies large and small use Microsoft SQL Server for database management. Highly popular yet insufficiently protected, this DBMS is a...