Android malware with ability to install Backdoor on Computers

Kaspersky Lab has revealed a new type of malware that can infect your computer when connected smartphone or tablet. Two such application, Super Clean and DroidCleaner found in Google Play android market. These two are actually same application, just released with two different names. These...

Eugene Kaspersky

Costin Raiu, the head of the Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team, Petr Merkulov, chief product officer, and CEO Eugene Kaspersky, discussed the need for better awareness of security threats and more comprehensive protection...

Kaspersky Cyber-Security Summit 2013

Kaspersky Lab convened a number of information security experts in New York City this week to discuss the effects of cyberespionage and targeted attacks on corporate America...

Eugene Kaspersky, Mikko Hypponen Discuss the Internet, Cyber Warfare

In a video from this week’s DLD Conference, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen and Kaspersky Lab’s CEO Eugene Kaspersky discuss increased paranoia surrounding cyber warfare, the dangers of the internet and the evolution of hacking throughout the years...

Inside the 1,000 Red October Cyberespionage Malware Modules

The Red October espionage malware campaign is providing security researchers with a deep dive into the complexity of targeted attacks, which in this case made use of more than 1,000 malware modules for everything from reconnaissance on targets to exfiltration of data to command and control server...

Java Exploit Linked to Red October Espionage Malware Campaign

Red October, the espionage campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab this week after attackers spent five years actively spying on diplomats, scientists, and governments worldwide, is using a Java exploit to infect its victims, bringing the exploit count to four in this campaign. Seculert, an Israeli...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Google Begins Blocking Silent Extension Installations with Chrome 25

Google announced late last week it would begin halting the silent installation of extensions on its flagship Chrome browser. In a post on the company’s Chromium Blog, Chrome’s Product Manager Peter Ludwig described the problem that led to the change and two new features present on the latest...

Iran CERT Reports New Data-Wiping Malware

Computer systems in Iran are being targeted by a new strain of malware that is capable of wiping disk partitions clean of files. Security researchers are calling the attacks simplistic, yet effective. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said the malware launches only on pre-determined dates and will...

Algerian Hacker hijack Romanian Google and Yahoo Domain

Algerian Hacker today hijack DNS Yahoo, Microsoft or Google and Paypal redirect users to a deface page. Credit being taken by Hacker going by name MCA-CRB, a serial website defacer. MCA-CRB is a prolific online graffiti artist who has defaced at least 5,000 sites, according to records kept by...

Update: Attack on Romanian TLD Register led to Google, Yahoo Defacements and DNS Redirects

UPDATE — DNS hijacking attacks carried out today against the home pages of Google, Yahoo and other high-profile sites in Romania have been traced to an attack on the Romanian Top Level Domain Register, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said. “The altered DNS records propagated from there to different...

Narilam malware target Iran Financial SQL Databases

Symantec recently identified a database-corrupting piece of malware targeting systems mostly in Iran, but despite early speculation that it could be related to the likes of Stuxnet and Flame, it appears to be targeting small businesses rather than the country's infrastructure. Malware Dubbed...

Eugene Kaspersky Chats With Facebook Users About Malware, Cybercrime and Piracy

Hi, folks! For the last two weeks each and every fan of official Kaspersky Lab Facebook pages worldwide had the chance to ask our CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, anything at all and we must say that some of our fans took this literally: Thank you for the hundreds of great questions! There’s nothing more...

Russians selling access to private company servers in just $4

We have already seen vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a potential dangers of desktop remote-access tools commonly used by IT departments to handle help-desk issues and by administrators to manage virtualized machines. According to reports from krebsonsecurity, A Russian company...

Microsoft Settles With Kelihos Botnet Defendant, Says He Didn't Run the Network

Microsoft on Friday said it has reached a settlement with a Russian programmer it named as a defendant in a lawsuit related to the operation of the notorious Kelihos botnet. The company said that it no longer believes Andrey N. Sabelnikov was the operator of the botnet, but was instead responsibl...

Kaspersky Lab Developing Secure Operating System for SCADA

Eugene Kaspersky is working with his engineers at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab to create a secure-by-design OS for ICS. In an interview Kaspersky said " It's true no one else ever tried to make a secure operating system. This may sound weird because of the many efforts Microsoft, Apple and...

miniFlame - A New cyber espionage malware discovered

Kaspersky has discovered new malware dubbed 'miniFlame', cyber espionage software directly linked to Flame. This new nation-state espionage malware that has ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool" targeting...

Millions of DSL modems hacked in Brazil, spread banking malware

More than 4.5 million DSL modems have been compromised as part of a sustained hacking campaign in Brazil, with the devices spreading malware and malicious web address redirects. According to the malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab in Brazil, Fabio Assolini. The vulnerability exploited by attackers...

Research Paints Shamoon Creators as 'Skillful Amateurs'

Despite seemingly endless pontification, it’s still too early to definitively say whether there’s a connection between the Shamoon malware and recent attacks on Middle Eastern oil firms, yet some of the attackers’ intentions may be getting clearer. Research suggests the creators behind the recent...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...