Petya Is Not Ransomware, It's a 'Wiper'

The outbreak of the ExPetr malware isn’t a ransomware attack, but more precisely, it’s a wiper attack that sabotaged PCs globally, overwriting their Master Boot Record forever. That’s the analysis of security experts from Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies who shared their latest research on th...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server 8.0.3.297 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for linux platform in category web applications 1. Advisory Information Title: Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2017-0003 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-File-Server-Multiple-Vulnerabilities Date publishe...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server 8.0.3.297 XSS / CSRF / Code Execution

Advisory Information Title: Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2017-0003 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-File-Server-Multiple-Vulnerabilities Date published: 2017-06-28 Date of last update: 2017-06-28 Vendors...

'Little Hope' to Recover Data Lost to Petya Ransomware

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. Fewer than 50 ExPetr/Petya ransomware victims have paid approximately $10,200 in Bitcoin so far in the hopes of unlocking...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server 8.0.3.297 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server 8.0.3.297 - Multiple Vulnerabilities 1. Advisory Information Title: Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2017-0003 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-File-Server-Multiple-Vulnerabilities...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

Advisory ID Internal CORE-2017-0003 1. Advisory Information Title: Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2017-0003 Date published: 2017-06-28 Date of last update: 2017-06-28 Vendors contacted: Kaspersky Release mode: Forced release 2. Vulnerability...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server 8.0.3.297 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Advisory Information Title: Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2017-0003 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-File-Server-Multiple-Vulnerabilities Date published: 2017-06-28 Date of last update: 2017-06-28 Vendors...

Complex Petya-Like Ransomware Outbreak Worse than WannaCry

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. The attackers behind today’s global ransomware outbreak are spreading the malware using a modified version of the leaked...

A vulnerability in the web console of the Antivirus Casper 8.0 anti-virus software allows for the transfer of JavaScript code executed by the client browser.

The vulnerability of the Antivirus Kaspersky 8.0 web console for Linux File Servers relates to the execution of scripts across sites. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to inject JavaScript code through a specially crafted GET request, with the JavaScript code specified in the...

The vulnerability in the web console of the Antivirus Kasper’s 8.0 anti-virus software for Linux File Servers allows access to files located on the server.

The vulnerability of the Antivirus Kaspersky 8.0 web console for Linux File Servers relates to the possibility of executing operating system commands. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain access to files located on the server by sending a specially crafted GET request wi...

The vulnerability of the Antivirus Kasperksy 8.0 web console for Linux File Servers allows an attacker to send commands to the antivirus software on behalf of its user.

The vulnerability of the Antivirus Kaspersky 8.0 web console for Linux File Servers arises from the lack of authenticity verification for the creators of the web consoles. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to send an antivirus command on behalf of the user who visits the...

A vulnerability in the web console of the Antivirus Kasperksy 8.0 anti-virus software for Linux File Servers, which allows for the execution of arbitrary code with privileges of a privileged user.

The vulnerability of the Antivirus Kaspersky 8.0 anti-virus software for Linux File Servers relates to the insecure management of privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious user with non-privileged privileges to execute code with privileged root privileges, through the use of th...

A week in security (June 19 – June 25)

Last week, we expanded on all the different technologies that Malwarebytes uses to break the attack chain and our Incident Response solution. We also warned you about a Roblox Robux generator scam and a phish targeting customers of Barclays Bank. Below are notable news stories and security-relate...

Svpeng Behind a Spike in Mobile Ransomware

The sting of mobile ransomware grew more painful in 2017 with attacks increasing a whopping 3.5 times in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago. Behind those attacks were a quarter million Trojan installation packages targeting Android devices that sought to extort between $100 to...

Player 1 Limps Back Into the Ring - Hello again, Locky!

This post was authored by Alex Chiu, Warren Mercer, and Jaeson Schultz. Sean Baird and Matthew Molyett contributed to this post.Back in May, the Necurs spam botnet jettisoned Locky ransomware in favor of the new Jaff ransomware variant. However, earlier this month Kaspersky discovered a...

Google Removes Two Ztorg Trojans from Play Marketplace

Google, for the second time this month, has removed malicious apps from Google Play that could have laid the groundwork for an attacker to root infected devices. A researcher with Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday described how attackers managed to evade settings set in place by Google Play’s VerifyApps...

Ztorg: from rooting to SMS

I've been monitoring Google Play Store for new Ztorg Trojans since September 2016, and have so far found several dozen new malicious apps. All of them were rooting malware that used exploits to gain root rights on the infected device. Then, in the second half of May 2017 I found one that wasn't...

Jaff Ransomware Decryption Tool Released – Don't Pay, Unlock Files for Free

Hit by Jaff Ransomware? Don't pay the Ransom. You can unlock your files for Free! Kaspersky Labs has released an updated version 1.21.2.1 of its free ransomware decryption tool, RakhniDecryptor, which can now also decrypt files locked by the Jaff ransomware. Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs...

Decryption Utility Unlocks Files Encrypted by Jaff Ransomware

A weakness discovered in Jaff ransomware by researchers has led to the creation of decryption keys to unlock files locked by the malware. “We have found a vulnerability in Jaff’s code for all the variants to date. Thanks to this, it is now possible to recover users’ files encrypted with the .jaff...

Dvmap: the first Android malware with code injection

In April 2017 we started observing new rooting malware being distributed through the Google Play Store. Unlike other rooting malware, this Trojan not only installs its modules into the system, it also injects malicious code into the system runtime libraries. Kaspersky Lab products detect it as...