Spam and Phishing

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes.

Arbor Networks reseracher Jose Nazario talks about new DDoS bot families, most previously unidentified. Nazario provides a tour of recently discovered DDoS bots from around the world showing the proliferation of attack models, adoption of .Net, and new modular functionalities.

August is traditionally one of the busiest months for the information security industry.

In their attempts to bypass e-mail filtering systems and deliver their information to users, spammers often resort to all sorts of tricks

Kaspersky Lab is paying a lot of attention to IT security education & literacy development sharing its knowledge & experience actively through its educational program “Kaspersky Academy”

Here’s the latest of our malware calendar wallpapers.

In Q2 of 2011, the share of spam in mail traffic continued to grow, averaging 82.5%.

Here’s our malware wallpaper for August, highlighting some notable malware-related events from the past.

Alexey Polyakov is a Head of the Global Emergency Response Team of Kaspersky Lab – a new security policy consultation service for current and new corporate customers. Over the last 12 months this new service has responded to numerous incidents in which corporate customers’ networks have been targeted.

Miles stolen from customers are becoming a new kind of currency among Brazilian cybercriminals and phishers, who can use them to issue tickets for themselves, sell tickets to other criminals or use them in barter schemes.

In this webcast, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, shares his extensive knowledge of the driving forces that power the modern cyber-criminal ecosystem and discuss the way that cybercrime operates.

“Weibo”, a micro blog in Chinese, is really hot and has become fashionable in China lately.

Brazilian cybercriminals already started using Google+ theme to spread malware as a fake invitation

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars.

What a coincidence! The same day I start tumblring, Tumblr users get hit by what seems to be one of the most publicized phishing attacks the social network has seen so far.