This cybercriminal’s thirst for stolen data is confirmed by the statistics: in the first half of 2019, more than 940,000 users were attacked by malware designed to harvest a variety of data on the computers. The threat’s called “Stealer Trojans” or Password Stealing Ware (PSW), a type of malware designed to steal passwords, files, and other data from victim computers. Read Full Article
Due to the wide media coverage botnets activities have become largely associated with DDoS attacks. Yet this is merely the tip of the iceberg, and botnets are used widely not only to carry out DDoS attacks, but to steal various user information. Read Full Article
In early March 2019, a number of malicious files detected by our products caught the eye. Although similar to AZORult stealer already known to us, unlike the original malware, they were written not in Delphi, but in C++. Read Full Article
Every day we intercept numerous file-download commands sent to bots of various types and families. Here we present the results of our botnet activity analysis for H2 2017 and H1 2018. Read Full Article
Being enthusiastic shoppers just like many other people around the world, at Kaspersky Lab we are, however paranoid enough to look at any Internet of Things (IoT)-device with some concern, even when the price is favorable. So we randomly took several different connected devices and reviewed their security set up. Read Full Article