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In 2015, the proportion of spam in email traffic decreased by 11.48 percentage points and accounted for 55.28%. This reduction was caused by the migration of advertising for legal goods and services from spam flows to more convenient and legal platforms, as well as by the expansion of the “gray” zone in mass mailings.

A while ago Turkish security group Otku Sen created the hidden tear ransomware and published the source code online. Idea behind it was to “teach” security researchers how ransomware works. Right from the beginning the reaction of various security professionals was negative. And we were right, it didn’t take long before the first ransomware variants arrived based on the hidden tear source code.

In 2015, virus writers demonstrated a particular interest in exploits for Adobe Flash Player. The proportion of relatively simple programs used in mass attacks was growing. Attackers have mastered non-Windows platforms – Android and Linux: almost all types of malicious programs are created and used for these platforms.

The data collected from Kaspersky Lab products shows that the tools used to attack businesses differ from those used against home users. Let’s have a look back at the major incidents of 2015 and at the new trends we have observed in information security within the business environment.

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.

The Russian-language cybercrime market is known all over the world. Kaspersky Lab experts have been monitoring the Russian hacker underground since its emergence. In this review we analyze how financial cybercrime works.

As the year comes to an end, we have an opportunity to take stock of how the industry has evolved and to cast our predictions for the coming years. The outlook for our rapidly evolving field of study is quite thought-provoking and will continue to present us with interesting challenges.

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered coffeemakers that expose Wi-Fi network passwords, baby monitors that let hackers spy on you, and smartphone-controlled home security systems that can be fooled with a magnet.

In the third quarter of 2015 Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled a total of 235,415,870 malicious attacks from online resources located all over the world. There were 5,686,755 registered notifications about attempted malware infections that aim to steal money via online access to bank accounts.

The evils of the .NET and PowerShell ecosystems began in quite an innocent manner, gradually evolving into the convoluted cybercrime scene that we’ve come to know nowadays.

After obtaining the new MD5 hashes for the CoinVault files, we set out to find more clues, more files, and to analyse what these new malware variants had to reveal. However, the best thing was that, based on our analysis, the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch police was able to apprehend two suspects last Monday.

A family of ransomware Trojans emerged in late 2014/early 2015, and quickly established itself among the top three most widespread encryptors. This threat has been assigned the verdict Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Shade according to Kaspersky Lab’s classification. The original name given to the encryptor by its creator is not known.

Another memorable installment of the Latin American Security Analysts Summit has come and gone! This time it was held in the exquisite city of Santiago de Chile, where journalists from all over the region were greeted by Kaspersky Lab’s research team for two full days of knowledge and a little bit of leisure.

TeslaCrypt 2.0 is different from previous ones in that it uses a significantly improved encryption scheme and uses an HTML page instead of a GUI. Incidentally, the HTML page was copied from another Trojan – Cryptowall.

The past Saturday we had the privilege of participating in this year’s edition of “Nuit du Hack”, a French security conference.