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 various devices or files and requiring users to pay a ransom usually in Bitcoins or another widely used e-currency, if they want to regain access to...

Chinese hackers attack National Data Center using watering hole attack

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have published a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese hackers attack National Data Center using watering hole attack...

IT threat evolution Q1 2018. Statistics

Q1 figures According to KSN: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 796,806,112 attacks launched from online resources located in 194 countries across the globe. 282,807,433 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via...

Nigerian BEC Scammers Growing Smarter, More Dangerous

Nigerian business email compromise scams are growing more dangerous and sophisticated as cybercriminals add new tools and techniques to their arsenal such as remote access trojans RATs and advanced information stealers, researchers found. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said in a report released...

OPC UA security analysis

This paper discusses our project that involved searching for vulnerabilities in implementations of the OPC UA protocol. In publishing this material, we hope to draw the attention of vendors that develop software for industrial automation systems and the industrial internet of things to problems...

Android users hit by ZooPark malware stealing data & recording calls

By Waqas Kaspersky Lab has discovered a brand new cyber-spying campaign targeting This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android users hit by ZooPark malware stealing data & recording calls...

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones

In March 2018, Japanese media reported the hijacking of DNS settings on routers located in Japan, redirecting users to malicious IP addresses. The redirection led to the installation of Trojanized applications named facebook.apk and chrome.apk that contained Android Trojan-Banker. According to ou...

Lenovo Help Mobile App Transmits Information Over HTTP - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-20475 Potential Impact: Exposure of user-identifiable information Severity: High Scope of Impact: Lenovo-specific CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-3776 Summary Description: The Lenovo Help Android app assists users with support for Lenovo devices. This requires transmitting...

Operation Parliament, who is doing what?

Summary Kaspersky Lab has been tracking a series of attacks utilizing unknown malware since early 2017. The attacks appear to be geopolitically motivated and target high profile organizations. The objective of the attacks is clearly espionage – they involve gaining access to top legislative,...

A Closer Look at APT Group Sofacy’s Latest Targets

Threatpost talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner who was instrumental in tracking the latest activities of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang. Research shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti...

The ‘Perfect Storm’ of Disinformation and Hacking

We live in an age of fake news, misinformation and disinformation. Recently, we have been falling for it – mostly. That is largely thanks to a confluence of social media, hacking and good old fashion disinformation campaigns, according to Matt “Pwn all the Things” Tait, a senior cybersecurity...

Cyber Espionage Campaign ‘Slingshot’ Targets Victims Via Routers

CANCUN, Mexico – Researchers have uncovered a new cyber-espionage threat, dubbed Slingshot, that targets routers and uses them as a springboard to attack computers within a network. Kaspersky Lab, which released details of its discovery during its Security Analyst Summit on Friday, said that the...

Vulnerability in Robots Can Lead To Costly Ransomware Attacks

CANCUN, Mexico – A vulnerability in Softbank Robotics’ NAO and Pepper robots can lead to costly ransomware attacks that could cause robots deployed in businesses to stop working, curse at customers, or even perform violent movements. The vulnerability was disclosed at Kaspersky Lab’s Security...

Mobile malware evolution 2017

The year in figures In 2017, Kaspersky Lab detected the following: 5,730,916 malicious installation packages 94,368 mobile banking Trojans 544,107 mobile ransomware Trojans Trends of the year Rooting malware: no surrender For the last few years, rooting malware has been the biggest threat to...

Unicode Technique Used to Deliver Cryptomining Malware Through Telegram

Attackers are using the time-tested right-to-left override technique to deliver cryptomining malware through the popular Telegram messaging application, say researchers. The right-to-left RLO technique uses Unicode to hide malicious file names and trick users into executing what appear to be beni...

Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway is an email security solution from Russia's Kaspersky Lab. The program is able to automatically filter spam, phishing sites and various malicious attachments. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway version 1.1. A remote attacker...

Potent Skygofree Malware Packs ‘Never-Before-Seen’ Features

Researchers have identified a powerful new Android malware strain called Skygofree capable of eavesdropping on WhatsApp messages, siphoning private data off phones and allowing adversaries to open reverse shell modules on targeted devices, giving attackers ultimate remote control. Researchers sai...

KLA11168 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server

Multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft SQL Server. Malicious user can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotelly via speculative execution side-channel attack to obtain sensetive information...