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 –...

Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually

In April 2018, Kaspersky Lab published a blogpost titled ‘Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones’. Roaming Mantis uses Android malware which...

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...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Story of the year: miners Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Threat Predictions for 2019 Introduction The internet is now woven...

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Children today are completely at home in the digital space. They use digital diaries and textbooks at school, communicate via instant messaging, play games...

Hello! My name is Dtrack

Our investigation into the Dtrack RAT actually began with a different activity. In the late summer of 2018, we discovered ATMDtrack, a piece of...

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For the second summer straight, we cover the children’s interests during the period when they have enough leisure to give themselves full time to...

A MitM extension for Chrome

Browser extensions make our lives easier: they hide obtrusive advertising, translate text, help us choose in online stores, etc. There are also less desirable...

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...

Goodfellas, the Brazilian carding scene is after you

There are three ways of doing things in the malware business: the right way, the wrong way and the way Brazilians do it. From...

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It pays to be a forever student

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. If I haven’t said it in a newsletter before, I'll say it now: If you want to be good...