Vulnerabilities and exploits

Software

The End of Microsoft’s Support for Windows XP

This will take place on April 8, 2014 and Microsoft has already announced this publicly.  This would not be a problem if all Windows users would have already migrated to more recent versions of Windows or do so by the mentioned date. However, according to our statistics based on the KSN technology during the last 30 days,

Opinion

Gaming the Security – The New Generation of Consoles

With the Xbox One having landed in many countries, it’s time to have a closer look at the new console generation. The Xbox One is equipped with two virtualized operating systems, both running on a hypervisor: the core system for gaming and a slimmed down version of Windows 8 for the app landscape. It is

Incidents

Loophole in Safari

In our search for various types of malicious code for Mac we recently came across a rather interesting peculiarity in Safari. It turns out that Safari for Mac OS, like many other contemporary browsers, can restore the previous browsing session. In other words, all the sites that were open in the previous session – even

Video

Forecasts for 2014 – Expert Opinion

In 2014 we expect significant growth in the number of threats related to economic and domestic cyber-espionage, with cyber-mercenaries/cyber-detectives playing an active role in such attacks. The full report is available here

Video

Corporate Threats in 2013 – The Expert Opinion

Companies are increasingly falling victim to cyber-attacks. According to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 9% of the organizations polled were the victims of targeted attacks – carefully planned activity aimed at infecting the network infrastructure of specific organization. The extensive use of digital devices in business has created ideal conditions

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Top security stories of 2013 – the expert opinion

Once again, it’s time for us to deliver our customary retrospective of the key events that have defined the threat landscape in 2013. Let’s start by looking back at the things we thought would shape the year ahead, based on the trends we observed in the previous year. The full report is available here.

Research

AutoCAD – New Platform for Start Page Trojans

In China, start page Trojans have become a popular type of malware because by changing users’ browser start pages to point to some navigation site, the owner of the site can get a large amount of web traffic which can then be converted into large sums of money. In order to spread such Trojans as

Software

iOS Update Available – Version 7.0.4 is Here

This week, Apple has released a small but very important update to their popular mobile operating system – iOS 7.0.4. According to the details provided, by Apple, the update comes with several bug fixes and improvements, including a fix for an issue that causes FaceTime calls to fail in some cases. But the latest iOS update also

Incidents

The rush for CVE-2013-3906 – a Hot Commodity

Two days ago FireEye reported that the recent CVE-2013-3906 exploit has begun to be used by new threat actors other than the original ones. The new infected documents share similarities with previously detected exploits but carry a different payload. This time these exploits are being used to deliver Taidoor and PlugX backdoors, according to FireEye. At Kaspersky

Reports
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