Black Friday alert
Banking Trojans traditionally target users of online financial services; looking for financial data to steal or building botnets out of hacked devices for future...
A new exploit for zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8589
Yesterday, Microsoft published its security bulletin, which patches a vulnerability discovered by our technologies. We reported it to Microsoft on October 17, 2018. The...
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...
Hey there! How much are you worth?
Have you ever stopped to think just how much your life is worth? I mean really think about it. For instance, let’s say you...
DDoS Attacks in Q3 2018
News Overview
The third quarter 2018 turned out relatively quiet in terms of DDoS attacks. “Relatively” because there were not very many high-level multi-day DDoS...
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...
Phishing for knowledge
When we talk about phishing, top of mind are fake banking sites, payment systems, as well as mail and other globally popular services. However,...
Octopus-infested seas of Central Asia
For the last two years we have been monitoring a Russian-language cyberespionage actor that focuses on Central Asian users and diplomatic entities. We named...
Threats in the Netherlands
Introduction
On October 4, 2018, the MIVD held a press conference about an intercepted cyberattack on the OPWC in the Netherlands, allegedly by the advanced...
MuddyWater expands operations
Summary
MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to...
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Leveraging OSINT Tools for Enhanced Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a cornerstone of cybersecurity threat intelligence. In today’s digital landscape, organizations face a constant barrage of cyber threats,...
BreachForums (2025) – 324,449 breached accounts
In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition...
Trend Micro patches critical flaws in its Apex Central software
Security company Trend Micro has been compelled to issue a patch for its own Apex Central software management tool after...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/09/2026
RISC-V PayloadsThis week brings more RISC-V payloads from community member bcoles. One provides a new adapter which allows RISC-V payloads to be converted to commands...
