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In the first quarter of 2021 we detected 1.45M mobile installation packages, of which 25K packages were related to mobile banking Trojans and 3.6K packages were mobile ransomware Trojans.

In Q1 2021, we blocked more than 2 billion attacks launched from online resources across the globe, detected 77.4M unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects, and recognized 614M unique URLs as malicious.

In the EU, 70% of user computers experienced at least one Malware-class attack, 115,452,157 web attacks and 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked.

In Q1 2021, we saw a spike in DDoS activity in January, peaking at over 1,800 attacks per day. The most widespread was UDP flooding (41.87%), while SYN flooding dropped to third place (26.36%).

In terms of spam and phishing, in Q1 2021, we largely saw a continuation of the 2020 trends: exploitation of COVID-19 theme, hunting corporate account credentials and spoofing of online store websites.

In this article we discuss browser lockers that mimic law enforcement websites.

This research is a continuation of our annual financial threat reports providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the financial threat landscape. The study covers the common phishing threats, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware.

We continued our observations and identified a number of trends that could, in our opinion, be due to circumstances connected with the pandemic in one way or another, as well as the reaction of governments, organizations and people to these circumstances.

The four vulnerabilities inside Microsoft Exchange Server allow an attacker to gain access to all registered email accounts, or to execute arbitrary code (RCE) within the Exchange Server context.

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans and 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans.

The detection logic has been improved in all our solutions to ensure our customers protection. We continue to investigate cyberattack on SolarWinds and we will add additional detection once they are required.

We matched private and public DNS data for the SUNBURST-malware root C2 domain with the CNAME records, to identify who was targeted for further exploitation. In total, we analyzed 1722 DNS records, leading to 1026 unique target name parts and 964 unique UIDs.

Cyberspace conflicts can take a vast number of forms, but in the context of this article, we will only focus on two of them: cyber-warfare for intelligence purposes, and sabotage and interference with strategic systems in order to hinder a state’s ability to govern or project power.

Kaspersky solutions blocked 666,809,967 attacks launched from online resources in various countries across the world, 173,335,902 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus.

In fact, in most medium-sized companies’ cybersecurity strategies, even with an endpoint solution, there are likely to still be gaps that can and should be closed. In this article, we look at what those gaps are and how to fill them.