The vulnerability of Kaspersky Endpoint Security’s antivirus protection for Windows involves errors during path restriction for restricted access directories. This allows a malicious user to trigger a service failure when loading the operating system.

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows relates to errors during path limitation for restricted access directories. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause a service failure when the operating system is loaded...

safeboard.kaspersky.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2218756

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

How we took part in MLSEC and (almost) won

This summer Kaspersky experts took part in the Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC — a series of trials testing contestants ability to create and attack machine learning models. The event is comprised of two main challenges — one for attackers, and the other for defenders. The...

Latest Report Uncovers Supply Chain Attacks by North Korean Hackers

Lazarus Group, the advanced persistent threat APT group attributed to the North Korean government, has been observed waging two separate supply chain attack campaigns as a means to gain a foothold into corporate networks and target a wide range of downstream entities. The latest...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2021-40449 My exploit for CVE-2021-40449, a Windows LPE vi...

Kaspersky Password Manager 安全漏洞

Kaspersky Password Manager is an application from the Russian company Kaspersky. It provides a function to manage passwords. A security vulnerability exists in Kaspersky Password Manager that allows an attacker to increase the process integrity level from medium to high...

Lyceum APT Returns, This Time Targeting Tunisian Firms

The Lyceum threat group has resurfaced, this time with a weird variant of a remote-access trojan RAT that doesn’t have a way to talk to a command-and-control C2 server and might instead be a new way to proxy traffic between internal network clusters. Kaspersky’s Mark Lechtik – senior security...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CallbackHell Exploit for CVE-2021-40449 Win32k - LPE - Ca...

Minecraft declared the most malware-infected game

By Waqas According to new research by Atlas VPN, Minecraft related malware infected 44,335 devices while Kaspersky antivirus software detected 300,000 malware cases. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Minecraft declared the most malware-infected game...

Windows Zero-Day Actively Exploited in Widespread Espionage Campaign

Researchers have discovered a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows that was being used to elevate privileges and take over Windows servers as part of a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat APT espionage campaign this summer. The exploit chain ended with a freshly discovered remote access...

Ransomware in the CIS

Introduction These days, when speaking of cyberthreats, most people have in mind ransomware, specifically cryptomalware. In 2020–2021, with the outbreak of the pandemic and the emergence of several major cybercriminal groups Maze, REvil, Conti, DarkSide, Avaddon, an entire criminal ecosystem took...

New Tomiris Backdoor Found Linked to Hackers Behind SolarWinds Cyberattack

Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a previously undocumented backdoor likely designed and developed by the Nobelium advanced persistent threat APT behind last year's SolarWinds supply chain attack, joining the threat actor's ever-expanding arsenal of hacking tools...

Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB's CEO Arrested Over Treason Charges in Russia

Russian authorities on Wednesday arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the founder of cybersecurity firm Group-IB, for two months in Moscow on charges of state treason following a search of its office on September 28. The Russian company, which is headquartered in Singapore, confirmed the developme...

SAS 2021: FinSpy Surveillance Kit Re-Emerges Stronger Than Ever

The FinSpy surveillance kit has been driven from its hiding place following an eight-month investigation by Kaspersky researchers. Detections of the spyware trojan have dwindled since 2018, but it turns out that it hasn’t gone away – it’s simply been hiding behind various first-stage implants tha...

New BloodyStealer Trojan Steals Gamers' Epic Games and Steam Accounts

A new advanced trojan sold on Russian-speaking underground forums comes with capabilities to steal users' accounts on popular online video game distribution services, including Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin, underscoring a growing threat to the lucrative gaming market. Cybersecurity firm...

BloodyStealer and gaming assets for sale

Earlier this year, we covered the threats related to gaming, and looked at the changes from 2020 and the first half of 2021 in mobile and PC games as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on video games. Many of the threats faced by gamers are associated with loss of personal data, and...

Wake me up till SAS summit ends

What do cyberthreats, Kubernetes and donuts have in common – except that all three end in "ts", that is? All these topics will be mentioned during the new SAS@Home online conference, scheduled for September 28th-29th, 2021. To be more specific, there will be a workshop titled, "Prevent & Detect...

Custom WhatsApp Build Delivers Triada Malware

Triada malware, both pernicious and persistent, has resurfaced. Its most recent sighting is buried inside an advertising component of a modified version of the popular WhatsApp messenger called FM WhatsApp. The malware, first spotted by researchers at Kaspersky in 2016, is a type of mobile...

Modified Version of WhatsApp for Android Spotted Installing Triada Trojan

A modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app for Android has been trojanized to intercept text messages, serve malicious payloads, display full-screen ads, and sign up device owners for unwanted premium subscriptions without their knowledge. "The Trojan Triada snuck into one of these modified...

Unpatched Remote Hacking Flaw Disclosed in Fortinet's FortiWeb WAF

Details have emerged about a new unpatched security vulnerability in Fortinet's web application firewall WAF appliances that could be abused by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute malicious commands on the system. "An OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb's management interface...