IDN Homograph Attack Spreading Betabot Backdoor

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor and ultimately infecting compromised machines with cryptocurrency-mining and data-stealing malware. Attacks using internationalized domain name homographs rely on users...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Neutralization reaction

Incident Response Guide PDF Despite there being no revolutionary changes to the cyberthreat landscape in the last few years, the growing informatization of business processes provides cybercriminals with numerous opportunities for attacks. They are focusing on targeted attacks and learning to use...

Targeted Attack Landscape: A Continuing Threat

When planning the cyber defenses of an organization, it's important to factor in the total threat landscape - including continuing threats as well as emerging security issues. In this way, organizations can create a more holistic data protection posture. While not seen in many headlines currently...

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...

The Real-World Impact of Bug Bounties and Vulnerability Research

Running the world’s largest vendor agnostic bug bounty program has afforded us the unique opportunity to purchase bugs of all varieties. The submissions to the Zero Day Initiative ZDI program range in severity from slightly annoying to hugely impactful. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Generall...

KSN Report: Ransomware in 2016-2017

This report has been prepared using depersonalized data processed by Kaspersky Security Network KSN. The metrics are based on the number of distinct users of Kaspersky Lab products with the KSN feature enabled, who encountered ransomware at least once in a given period, as well as research into t...

Business Process Compromise: The Next Step in Advanced Targeted Attacks

Targeted attacks have come a long way in recent years, leveraging increasingly advanced techniques aimed at specific individuals. Often, these hackers pinpoint a single person within an enterprise, steal their credentials, log into an account, and leverage this position to find sensitive...

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office that could be exploited when a user opens a file containing a malformed graphics image or when a user inserts a malformed graphics image into an Office file. Such a file could also be included in an email attachment. An attacker cou...

Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement

More than 200 Android mobile applications listen surreptitiously for ultrasonic beacons embedded in audio that are used to track users and serve them with targeted advertising. Academics from Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany recently published a paper in which they describe their...

Google just discovered a dangerous Android Spyware that went undetected for 3 Years

An Android version of one of the most sophisticated mobile spyware has been discovered that remained undetected for at least three years due to its smart self-destruction capabilities. Dubbed Chrysaor, the Android spyware has been used in targeted attacks against activists and journalists mostly ...

World Backup Day is as good as any to back up your data

In today’s security landscape, there are more threats to data than ever before. Beyond corruption caused by hardware or human failure, malware and cyberattacks can put data in serious danger. That’s why it’s imperative for enterprises, small-and-medium businesses, and individuals to back up data...

Newly Discovered Mac Malware with Ancient Code Spying on Biotech Firms

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Mac-based espionage malware that relies on outdated coding practices but has been used in some previous real-world attacks to spy on biomedical research center computers. Dubbed Fruitfly, the malware has remained undetected for years on macOS...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

Flash Player Bug An Eavesdropper's Delight

Adobe yesterday patched a not-so-sweet 16 Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero day under attack. While not much is known about the targeted attacks using the Flash Player bug, or its victims, details have surfaced on another patched flaw that is a potential privacy nightmare...

Windows 10: protection, detection, and response against recent Depriz malware attacks

A few weeks ago, multiple organizations in the Middle East fell victim to targeted and destructive attacks that wiped data from computers, and in many cases rendering them unstable and unbootable. Destructive attacks like these have been observed repeatedly over the years and the Windows Defender...

Carbanak Attacks Shift To Hospitality Sector

The Carbanak cybercrime gang, best known for allegedly stealing $1 billion from financial institutions worldwide, have shifted strategy and are targeting the hospitality and restaurant industries with new techniques and malware. According to security researchers at Trustwave, over the last severa...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

Google Reveals Windows Kernel Zero Day Under Attack

A Windows zero-day vulnerability is being used in an unknown number of attacks, Google disclosed today, 10 days after it privately reported the issue to Microsoft. Google’s disclosure follows its internal policy, which states that companies should fix or publicly report flaws that are under attac...

FreeBSD : flash -- remote code execution (de6d01d5-9c44-11e6-ba67-0011d823eebd)

Adobe reports : Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address a critical vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for...