LuckyMouse signs malicious NDISProxy driver with certificate of Chinese IT company
What happened?
Since March 2018 we have discovered several infections where a previously unknown Trojan was injected into the lsass.exe system process memory. These implants...
Spam and phishing in Q3 2018
Quarterly highlights
Personal data in spam
We have often said that personal data is candy on a stick to fraudsters and must be kept safe (that...
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2017
For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and...
To crypt, or to mine – that is the question
Way back in 2013 our malware analysts spotted the first malicious samples related to the Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family. That was the starting point for this...
Denis and Co.
In April 2017, we published a detailed review of a malicious program that used DNS tunneling to communicate to its C&C. That study prompted...
Pocket cryptofarms
In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been a permanent news fixture — the value of digital money has been see-sawing spectacularly. Such...
Hackers attacking your memories: science fiction or future threat?
Authors: Kaspersky Lab and the Oxford University Functional Neurosurgery Group
There is an episode in the dystopian near-future series Black Mirror about an implanted chip...
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...
Every little bitcoin helps
It often happens that inventions and technologies that start out good end up turning into dangerous tools in the hands of criminals. Blockchain is...
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...