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Beginning in H2 2019 we have observed a tendency for decreases in the percentages of attacked computers, both in the ICS and in the corporate and personal environments. The internet, removable media and email continue to be the main sources of threats in the ICS environment.

According to Kaspersky Security Network, during the second quarter 1,245,894 malicious installers were detected and a total of 14,204,345 attacks on mobile devices were blocked.

During the second quarter Kaspersky solutions blocked 899,744,810 attacks launched from online resources across the globe, as many as 286,229,445 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components.

Targeted attacks and APT groups, new malware and the COVID-19 pandemic exploitation in the second quarter of 2020

DeathStalker is a unique threat group that appears to target law firms and companies in the financial sector. They don’t deploy ransomware or steal payment information to resell it, their interest in gathering sensitive business information.

In Q2 2020, the largest share of spam (51.45 percent) was recorded in April. The average percentage of spam in global email traffic was 50,18%, down by 4.43 percentage points from the previous reporting period.

As an incident response service provider, Kaspersky delivers a global service that results in a global visibility of adversaries’ cyber-incident tactics and techniques on the wild. In this report, we share our teams’ conclusions and analysis based on incident responses and statistics from 2019.

According to currently available information, in the attack on Garmin a targeted build of the Trojan WastedLocker was used. We have performed technical analysis of the Trojan sample.

This summary is based on our threat intelligence research and provides a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2020.

By investigating a number of targeted ransomware attacks and through discussions with some of our trusted industry partners, we feel that we now have a good grasp on how the ransomware ecosystem is structured.

The MATA malware framework possesses several components, such as loader, orchestrator and plugins. The framework is able to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.

Cyber threats aren’t relegated to the world of big businesses and large-scale campaigns. The most frequent attacks aren’t APTs and massive data breaches—they’re the daily encounters with malware and spam by everyday users.

Exploit kits still play a role in today’s threat landscape and continue to evolve. For this blogpost I studied and analyzed the evolution of one of the most sophisticated exploit kits out there – Magnitude EK – for a whole year.

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the role of the Internet in our lives has undergone changes, including irreversible ones. We decided to take a closer look at the changes around us through the prism of information security, starting with the video game industry.

Over the past two years we have reviewed how adult content has been used to spread malware and abuse users’ privacy. This is a trend that’s unlikely to go away, especially under current circumstances. While many pornography platforms are enjoying an influx of new users and providing legitimate and safe services, the security risks remain, if not increase.