Roaming Mantis, part IV
One year has passed since we published the first blogpost about the Roaming Mantis campaign on securelist.com, and this February we detected new activities...
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...
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...
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...
The fourth horseman: CVE-2019-0797 vulnerability
In February 2019, our Automatic Exploit Prevention (AEP) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Further analysis...
Spam and phishing in 2018
Numbers of the year
The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017.
The biggest source of spam...
A predatory tale: Who’s afraid of the thief?
In mid-February, Kaspersky Lab received a request for incident response from one of its clients. The individual who initially reported the issue to our...
Financial Cyberthreats in 2018
Introduction and Key Findings
The world of finance has been a great source of income cybercriminals across the world due to an obvious reason –...
How to Attack and Defend a Prosthetic Arm
The IoT world has long since grown beyond the now-ubiquitous smartwatches, smartphones, smart coffee machines, cars capable of sending tweets and Facebook posts and...
Threats to users of adult websites in 2018
More graphs and statistics in full PDF version
Introduction
2018 was a year that saw campaigns to decrease online pornographic content and traffic. For example, one...
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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
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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...
