Recently, the popular CamScanner – Phone PDF creator app caught our attention. After analyzing the app, we saw that the developer added an advertising library to it that contains a malicious dropper component. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q2 2019
Targeted attacks, malware campaigns and other security news in Q2 2019. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics
Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe, 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Read Full Article
Financial threats in H1 2019
In the first half of 2019, more than 430,000 unique users were attacked by financial threats – seven percent more than during the same period in 2018. The number of financial attacks was 10,493,792 – 93% more than in the first half of 2018. Read Full Article
New FinSpy iOS and Android implants revealed ITW
Since 2011 Kaspersky has continuously monitored the development of FinSpy and the emergence of new versions in the wild. According to our telemetry, several dozen unique mobile devices have been infected over the past year, with recent activity recorded in Myanmar in June 2019. Read Full Article
Riltok mobile Trojan: A banker with global reach
Riltok is one of numerous families of mobile banking Trojans with standard (for such malware) functions and distribution methods. Originally intended to target the Russian audience, the banker was later adapted for the European “market. Read Full Article
Not-so-dear subscribers
Many people have had a run-in with subscriptions to mobile content providers. They appear out of the blue, and get discovered only when account funds run dry. We recently discovered several apps in Play Market directly related to such intrusive services. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics
In Q1 2019, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 243,604 users and detected attacks using miners on the computers of 1,197,066 users. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q1 2019
Zebrocy and GreyEnergy, four zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, a very old bug in WinRAR, attacks on smart devices and other events of the first quarter of 2019. Read Full Article
Large-scale SIM swap fraud
If someone steals your phone number, you’ll face a lot of problems, especially because most of our modern two-factor authentication systems are based on SMSs that can be intercepted using this technique. Read Full Article