APT (Targeted attacks)

Over the past decade, APT have intensely targeted organizations and individuals across India. Its developing base of technology, its geographical location and bounds, its inclusive and riotous political energy, and its growing economic weight makes it a special place of interest for badly intentioned cyber attackers.

In 2013, together with our partner CrySyS Lab, we announced our research on a new APT actor we dubbed “Miniduke”.

Microsoft seized 22 domains previously owned by Vitalwerks, company behind dynamic dns service NO-IP

More than a year has passed since the release of our last article on HackingTeam, the Italian company that develops a “legal” spyware tool known as Remote Control System, or short, RCS.

Syria suffered yet another large-scale Internet black out that lasted for about seven hours. In contrast to previous incidents this time a cut off fiber optic cable was deemed responsible for leaving most of the country off-line.

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 also pointed out by research from BAE SYSTEMS, is a connection between the authors of

The Mask is an advanced threat actor that has been involved in cyber-espionage operations since at least 2007. What makes The Mask special is the complexity of the toolset used by the attackers. This includes an extremely sophisticated piece of malware, a rootkit, a bootkit, Mac OS X and Linux versions and possibly versions for Android and iPad/iPhone (iOS).

During the past months we have been busy analysing yet another sophisticated cyberespionage operation which has been going on at least since 2007, infecting victims in 27 countries. We deemed this operation “The Mask”.

During our monitoring of the Icefog attackers, we observed an interesting type of connection which seemed to indicate a Java version of Icefog, further to be referenced as “Javafog”.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of major incidents involving destructive malware. We’ve decided to put together a brief summary the most important Wiper incidents

Attacchi di phishing nei confronti dei clienti di Poste Italiane PDF Version The number of serious cyber-attacks detected over the last two years has increased so much that new attacks rarely cause much surprise. It’s now commonplace for antivirus companies to issue a report about the discovery of another botnet or highly sophisticated malware campaign

Once again, it’s time for us to deliver our customary retrospective of the key events that have defined the threat landscape in 2013.

According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized a total of 978 628 817 threats in the third quarter of 2013

Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions related to Icefog, an APT operation targeting entities in Japan and South Korea.

Since 2011 we have been tracking a series of attacks that we link to a threat actor called ‘Icefog’. We believe this is a relatively small group of attackers that are going after the supply chain.