Web threats

The new Arcane stealer spreads via YouTube and Discord, collecting data from many applications, including VPN and gaming clients, network utilities, messaging apps, and browsers.

Kaspersky experts have discovered campaigns distributing stealers, malicious PowerShell scripts, and backdoors through web pages mimicking the DeepSeek and Grok websites.

Kaspersky researchers discovered GitVenom campaign distributing stealers and open-source backdoors via fake GitHub projects.

Kaspersky experts review Do Not Track (DNT) statistics for the most widely used web tracking services in 2023 and 2024 operated by companies like Google, Microsoft, etc.

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.