Spam and Phishing

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.

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars.

It is a well-known fact that events of global interest are exploited by cybercriminals for financial gain. The current situation in Japan is no exception.

In some Eastern European countries (Russia and Ukraine especially), there are legal loopholes that allow the use of SMS premium rate numbers anonymously. In addition, some Russian mobile operators allow people to transfer money from prepaid SIM cards to bank accounts or credit cards. When combined, these two things allow cyber-crime activity that generate illegal profits. In this issue of Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Denis Maslennikov discusses this component of mobile security and talks about the ways cyber-criminals are maliciously exploiting prepaid SIM cards and money transfers. Maslennikov also describes the main pillar of the underground economy and ecosystem of his type of fraud.

The revolutions spreading across the Arab world have grabbed the attention of people across the globe, including cybercriminals: so-called “Nigerian” spam emails have recently appeared claiming to be from a variety of “relatives” of Gaddafi and Mubarak.

Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz joins the Lab Matters webcast to discuss the banking malware epidemic in Europe and offer suggestions for consumers doing business on the Web.

Head of Content Analysis and Research Darya Gudkova joins Ryan Naraine on this episode of Lab Matters to talk about the use of spam e-mails to launch malware attacks.

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars.

In this edition of the Lab Matters webcast, malware researcher Tillmann Werner and Ryan Naraine discuss the ongoing battle to control the Conficker botnet and the need for the computer security industry to consider newer approaches to mitigating the botnet epidemic.