Web threats

Kaspersky experts found a new variant of the China Chopper web shell from the Tropic Trooper group that imitates an Umbraco CMS module and targets a government entity in the Middle East.

Kaspersky experts review their privacy predictions for 2023 and last year’s trends, and try to predict what privacy concerns and solutions are to come in 2024.

An overview of last year’s predictions for corporate and dark web threats and our predictions for 2024.

We created a list of companies worldwide from different industries and searched through Darknet trying to find out how likely these companies have suffered a breach, what kind of data leaked, and what to do with it.

Generative AI has become the trendiest technology of 2023. Kaspersky reviews AI-related security concerns, and implementations of this technology in cyberdefense and red teaming, and provides predictions for 2024.

Key statistics for 2023: ransomware, trojan bankers, miners and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

Kaspersky experts review last year’s predictions on consumer cyberthreats and try to anticipate the trends for 2024.

As Black Friday approaches, Kaspersky analyzes phishing and spam activity around major sales events, and reviews statistics on online shopping threats in 2023.

We look at how user data privacy is handled by large language model-based chatbots: ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard, Anthropic Claude, You.com, and Bing.

In this report, we share our latest crimeware findings: the ASMCrypt cryptor/loader related to DoubleFinger, a new Lumma stealer and a new version of Zanubis Android banking trojan.

IoT threats: how devices get hacked, what malware is uploaded, and what services are on offer on the dark web in 2023.

PC malware statistics for Q2 2022 includes data on miners, ransomware, banking Trojans, and other threats to Windows, macOS and IoT devices.

Recent BlueNoroff and Roaming Mantis activities, new APT related to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, ChatGPT and threat intelligence, malvertising through search engines, cryptocurrency theft campaign and fake Tor browser

A recent campaign by Satacom downloader is delivering a cryptocurrency-stealing extension for Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Brave and Opera.

Kaspersky researchers discuss infection methods used by Mirai-based RapperBot, Rhadamantys stealer, and CUEMiner: smart brute forcing, malvertising, and distribution through BitTorrent and OneDrive.