In April 2019, we discovered new malware that compromises encrypted web communications in an impressive way. We called these new modules ‘Reductor’ after a .pdb path left in some samples. Read Full Article
Assessing the impact of protection from web miners
Cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive business. According to some estimates, Bitcoin miners consume the same amount of energy as the Czech Republic. Read Full Article
This is what our summer’s like
For the second summer straight, we cover the children’s interests during the period when they have enough leisure to give themselves full time to their hobbies. Read Full Article
Incident Response report 2018
This report covers our team’s incident response practices for the year 2018. We have thoroughly analyzed all the service requests, customer conversations and incident response deliverables to provide you an overview in numbers. Read Full Article
Agent 1433: remote attack on Microsoft SQL Server
One of the most common attack on Microsoft SQL Server — the remote attack based on malicious jobs — has been around for a long time, but it is still used to get access to workstations through less-than-strong administrator password. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics
Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe, 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Read Full Article
DDoS attacks in Q2 2019
According to Kaspersky DDoS Protection data, the second quarter of 2019 turned out to be rather less eventful than the previous one. As such, the number of attacks foiled by our protection systems fell by 44%. But at the same time, the quarter turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. Read Full Article
IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics
In Q1 2019, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 243,604 users and detected attacks using miners on the computers of 1,197,066 users. Read Full Article
DDoS attacks in Q1 2019
Q1 2019 held no particular surprises, save for countries such as Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and Romania maintaining a high level of DDoS activity. Read Full Article
Threats to users of adult websites in 2018
We examined malware disguised as pornographic content, and malware that hunts for credentials to access pornography websites. We looked at the threats that are attacking users across the internet in order to find out which popular websites might be dangerous to visit. Additionally, we checked our phishing and spam database to see if there is a lot of pornographic content on file and how is it used in the wild. Read Full Article