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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.

While service providers assure us that there’s nothing safer than the ‘cloud’, security companies have already managed to discover various kinds of threats in the cloud.

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars.

In this newest edition of Lab Matters, Director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team Costin Raiu offers some predictions about what we will see in the second half of 2011.

As we mentioned in a previous blog post, every time there is news of global interest, cybercriminals try to exploit that interest for their own malicious purposes.

Continuing our investigation on the Osama’s death campaign, we were especially concerned about the potential distribution of malware on social networks, because of their speed of propagation.

Osama Bin Laden scam/spam is spreading on Facebook.

The wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William is by far the most popular topic of conversation today.

Reports

In this article, we discuss the tools and TTPs used in the SideWinder APT’s attacks in H2 2024, as well as shifts in its targets, such as an increase in attacks against the maritime and logistics sectors.

Kaspersky researchers analyze EAGERBEE backdoor modules, revealing a possible connection to the CoughingDown APT actor.

While investigating an incident involving the BellaCiao .NET malware, Kaspersky researchers discovered a C++ version they dubbed “BellaCPP”.

Lazarus targets employees of a nuclear-related organization with a bunch of malware, such as MISTPEN, LPEClient, RollMid, CookieTime and a new modular backdoor CookiePlus.

Spam and Phishing

Malware Calendar Wallpaper for August 2011

Lab Matters – Alexey Polyakov: “Corporate Incidents: Lessons Learned”

Flying phishers: cybercriminals targeting frequent flyer miles

Cloud Security vs Cybercrime Economy: The Kaspersky Vision

Yes to tweeting, no to phishing

Google+ fake invites = malware

Malware Calendar Wallpaper for July 2011

Yet another phishing attack – Tumblr users being targeted

Phishing in the clouds

Malware Calendar Wallpaper for June 2011

Lab Matters – At the Halfway Mark: Malware Predictions in 2011

Spam and the death of Osama bin Laden

Osama’s death in Twitter

Osama Bin Laden Spam/Ads on Facebook

Royal spam

Reports

SideWinder targets the maritime and nuclear sectors with an updated toolset

EAGERBEE, with updated and novel components, targets the Middle East

BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++

Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware

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