Web threats

In developed countries, bank cards are very popular. Consumers don’t have to lug around wads of cash when they can opt for a slim piece of plastic that replaces a heavy purse or wallet.

A simple message on a Google forum in August sparked an investigation which would eventually bring down the DigiNotar certificate authority.

In the past few days several Brazilian ISPs have fallen victim to a series of DNS cache poisoning attacks.

The following statistics were compiled in October using data collected from computers running Kaspersky Lab products: 161,003,697 network attacks were blocked.

The SSL PKI has been in use and implemented for 15 years now to secure online communications.

During the last couple of days we have been investigating the extremely high numbers of infected websites.

The following statistics were compiled in September using data collected from computers running Kaspersky Lab products

Hello from Virus Bulletin 2011! Several talks this morning were very good, and an unusual topic about DDoS in the east was presented early in the afternoon.

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet Kelihos/Hlux. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative.

The title of this post suggests that I’ve been thinking of one of the cyber-criminals that uses SpyEye, maybe in admiration! But actually his cyber-criminal actions overshadow anything else.

At the beginning of last week the Dutch government had vouched for the integrity of the PKIoverheid CA. This caused the browser makers to only denylist the non-goverment CA from Diginotar.

One of the big questions is whether the government CA branch – called DigiNotar PKIoverheid – has also been compromised.

When logging into Facebook today, I was greeted with a new set of controls. In the wake of the apparent success of Google+, it seems that Facebook would like to reassure its user base that they too can control who sees what you post, and who you tag.

All statistical data presented in this report were obtained using Kaspersky Lab’s botnet monitoring system and Kaspersky DDoS Prevention.

In 2010 we noted a decline in the number of players in the fake antivirus market, and as a result, fewer counterfeit programs used to distribute fake antivirus products