Calisto Trojan for macOS
An interesting aspect of studying a particular piece of malware is tracing its evolution and observing how the creators gradually add new monetization or...
The return of Fantomas, or how we deciphered Cryakl
In early February this year, Belgian police seized the C&C servers of the infamous Cryakl cryptor. Soon afterwards, they handed over the private keys...
Coinvault, the court case
Today, after almost 3 years of waiting, it was finally the day of the trial. In the Netherlands, where the whole case took place,...
APT Trends Report Q2 2018
In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) began publishing summaries of the quarter’s private threat intelligence reports,...
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...
Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018
Ransomware is not an unfamiliar threat. For the last few years it has been affecting the world of cybersecurity, infecting and blocking access to...
Pbot: evolving adware
The adware PBot (PythonBot) got its name because its core modules are written in Python. It was more than a year ago that we...
Modern OSs for embedded systems
At Kaspersky Lab we analyze the technologies available on cybersecurity market and this time we decided to look at what OS developers are offering...
Olympic Destroyer is still alive
In March 2018 we published our research on Olympic Destroyer, an advanced threat actor that hit organizers, suppliers and partners of the Winter Olympic...
LuckyMouse hits national data center to organize country-level waterholing campaign
What happened?
In March 2018 we detected an ongoing campaign targeting a national data center in the Central Asia that we believe has been active...
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xRAT Malware Attacking Windows Users Disguised as Adult Game
A dangerous malware threat has emerged targeting Windows users across Korea through webhard file-sharing services. The Ahnlab Security Intelligence Center recently identified xRAT,...
AWS named Leader in the 2025 ISG report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)
For the third year in a row, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named as a Leader in the Information Services Group (ISG) Provider LensTM...
Mistral AI Wins French Military Deal
France’s Ministry of the Armed Forces has taken a significant step to deepen its use of AI by awarding a framework agreement to French...
Beyond the Device: Exploring the New Security Risks of Interconnected IoT at CES 2026
Attending CES over the last several years has provided me with a valuable opportunity to observe how rapidly IoT technology continues to evolve across...
