Why VPNFilter is like a Moonlight Maze

On May 25, the FBI issued a public service announcement asking every Internet ready American to reboot their routers. The PSA specifically warned small and home office owners that they are particularly vulnerable to “foreign cyber actors” A.K.A. spies that are using malware called VPNFilter to...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Review of the Year 2017

Introduction The end of the year is a good time to take stock of the main cyberthreat incidents that took place over the preceding 12 months or so. To reflect on the impact these events had on organizations and individuals, and consider what they could mean for the overall evolution of the threat...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day One Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the first day of this year’s Security Analyst Summit, including Mark Dowd’s memory corruption bug keynote, Thomas Rid, Daniel Moore, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, and Costin Raiu’s Moonlight Maze talk, ATM hacking, and the Lazarus APT. Download:...

Russian-Speaking Turla Joins APT Elite

SINT MAARTEN—In the waning moments of his 2016 talk at the Security Analyst Summit, Thomas Rid had a drop-the-mic moment when he disclosed there were likely links between the infamous Moonlight Maze cyberespionage operation of the mid- and late-1990s and the modern-day Turla APT. Today during thi...

Moonlight Maze

Starting in 1998, U.S. government officials began noticing a pattern of probes into various government networks, including the Pentagon, NASA, universities, research institutions and the Department of Energy. Evidently, hackers – believed to be located in Russia – had compromised these networks a...