During past few years, the number and quality of attacks aimed financial sector organizations has continuously grown. The financial institutions that have not already thought about cyber security, will soon face the consequences of hacker attacks. Read Full Article
On 28 October, the cryptocurrency world saw the emergence of a new player, the Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency. Its developers have described it rather figuratively: “If Bitcoin is like HTTP for money, Zcash is HTTPS.” They continue by noting that “unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions can be shielded to hide the sender, the recipient and value of all transactions.” Read Full Article
2016 has only just got underway, but the first three months have already seen the same amount of cybersecurity events that just a few years ago would have seemed normal for a whole year. The main underlying trends remained the same, while there was significant growth in trends related to traditional cybercrime, especially mobile threats and global ransomware epidemics. Read Full Article
Adwind – a cross-platform RAT, multifunctional malware program which is distributed through a single malware-as-a-service platform. Different versions of the Adwind malware have been used in attacks against at least 443,000 private users, commercial and non-commercial organizations around the world. Read Full Article
The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflection – for taking stock of our lives before considering what lies ahead. We’d like to offer our customary retrospective of the key events that have shaped the threat landscape in 2015. Read Full Article
The past few days has seen an extensive discussion within the IT security industry about a cyberespionage campaign called Turla, aka Snake and Uroburos, which, according to G-DATA experts, may have been created by Russian special services. One of the main conclusions… Read Full Article
In 2014 we expect significant growth in the number of threats related to economic and domestic cyber-espionage. Read Full Article
Before 2012, there were only two instances of cyber weapons being used – Stuxnet and Duqu. However, analysis of these two forced the IT community to dramatically expand the whole concept of what cyber warfare entails Read Full Article
Two weeks ago, when we announced the discovery of the Flame malware we said that we saw no strong similarity between its code and programming style with that of the Tilded platform (https://securelist.com/stuxnetduqu-the-evolution-of-drivers/36462/) which Stuxnet and Duqu are based on. Read Full Article
The Flame malware uses several methods to replicate itself. The most interesting one is the use of the Microsoft Windows Update service. Read Full Article