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Twice every year, analysts from Kaspersky meet for a couple of days to brainstorm over ongoing security issues, think about new ways to protect the users and fight against new breeds of threats.

A short summary from the IT-Security for the Next Generation conference in Erfurt

Last week I got the chance to drop by the IIT campus in Mumbai, India, for the Techfest 2011 conference.

Since Monday, my colleagues and I have been attending the annual Chaos Communication Congress 27C3 in Berlin. For the past 27 years, the Chaos Computer Club has organised this four day conference for hackers from all over the world.

Kaspersky Lab can count itself lucky to have very diligent people which honorary moderate our official Kaspersky Lab forums, test our beta versions to find bugs before new products hit the market and create community projects.

AVAR is one of the best opportunities for industry experts from around the world to get together in a relaxed environment and discuss the latest hot topics.

This year the Virus Bulleting Conference, one of the most prestigious annual events in the anti-virus industry, took place in Vancouver, Canada.

These days, when you scan Internet resources or take part in discussions, you inevitably come across materials and comments related to the use of cloud technology in antivirus protection.

Greetings from beautiful Brasília, the capital of Brazil, I’m here for a few days to take part in the 7th International Conference on Cybercrime Investigation (ICCyber).

Twitter turned off basic authentication for 3rd party applications earlier today, while enforcing OAuth for all apps. It was a highly anticipated move by anyone concerned about the security of their Twitter account.

Greetings from Las Vegas where two major security conferences just ended.

Here we are, gathered in Larnaca (Cypus) for the Security Analyst Summit 2010. Beautiful beaches, gorgeous weather – the first thing coming to mind would be jumping into any of the numerous pools or into the sea and have some fun.

Today was the opening day of the CARO 2010 Workshop, which is hosted by F-Secure in Helsinki.

Hello from Barcelona, where me and my colleague Sergey Novikov are attending the BlackHat Conference Briefings, 2010.

We’ve just held the first European edition of our international student conference, IT Security for the Next Generation.

Reports

An in-depth analysis of Umbrij, a new tool used by the ToddyCat APT group to compromise corporate email communications in Gmail. The attack targeted OAuth authorization tokens, allowing threat actors to gain access to Google services.

Cloud Atlas attacks the public sector and diplomatic structures of Russia and Belarus, using ReverseSocks, SSH, and Tor for persistence in infected systems and its new tool, PowerCloud.

Kaspersky researchers analyze a range of new PebbleDash-based tools used in recent Kimsuky campaigns and reveal their connection to the AppleSeed malware cluster.

Kaspersky researchers uncovered malicious wheel packages in PyPI that targeted both Windows and Linux and contained a dropper delivering malware dubbed ZiChatBot. We attribute this activity to OceanLotus APT.

Cybersecurity

Kaspersky Analyst Summit 2011

IT-Security for the Next Generation conference in Erfurt

Techfest Mumbai 2011

We Come in Peace, Too – Impressions from CCC’s 27C3 / Berlin

1st German Kaspersky Lab community workshop

Greetings from AVAR 2010

VB2010 – Vancouver, Canada

The antivirus weather forecast: cloudy

ICCYBER 2010

Twitter goes OAuth-only (Yay for security!)

When security gets hot

Gumblar at Lemesos

The CARO 2010 Technical Workshop

BlackHat Europe 2010 Conference

IT Security for the Next Generation

Reports

ToddyCat: your hidden email assistant. Part 2

Cloud Atlas activity in the second half of 2025 and early 2026: new tools and a new payload

Kimsuky targets organizations with PebbleDash-based tools

OceanLotus suspected of using PyPI to deliver ZiChatBot malware

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