For the second summer straight, we cover the children’s interests during the period when they have enough leisure to give themselves full time to their hobbies. Read Full Article
Fully equipped Spying Android RAT from Brazil: BRATA
BRATA” is a new Android remote access tool malware family. It exclusively targets victims in Brazil: however, theoretically it could also be used to attack any other Android user if the cybercriminals behind it want to. Read Full Article
Incident Response report 2018
This report covers our team’s incident response practices for the year 2018. We have thoroughly analyzed all the service requests, customer conversations and incident response deliverables to provide you an overview in numbers. Read Full Article
Spam and phishing in Q2 2019
Cybercriminals continue to look for new ways to deliver spam and improve old ones. In Q2, they used popular Google services to distribute spam. Blackmailers are also trying out new methods. Alongside threats to ordinary users, attempts were made to blackmail companies by threatening to send spam mailings in their name. Read Full Article
An advertising dropper in Google Play
Recently, the popular CamScanner – Phone PDF creator app caught our attention. After analyzing the app, we saw that the developer added an advertising library to it that contains a malicious dropper component. Read Full Article
Agent 1433: remote attack on Microsoft SQL Server
One of the most common attack on Microsoft SQL Server — the remote attack based on malicious jobs — has been around for a long time, but it is still used to get access to workstations through less-than-strong administrator password. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q2 2019
Targeted attacks, malware campaigns and other security news in Q2 2019. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics
Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe, 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Read Full Article
Recent Cloud Atlas activity
From the beginning of 2019 until July, we have been able to identify different spear-phishing campaigns related to Cloud Atlas mostly focused on Russia, Central Asia and regions of Ukraine with ongoing military conflicts. Read Full Article
DDoS attacks in Q2 2019
According to Kaspersky DDoS Protection data, the second quarter of 2019 turned out to be rather less eventful than the previous one. As such, the number of attacks foiled by our protection systems fell by 44%. But at the same time, the quarter turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. Read Full Article