Web threats

In this report, we analyze malware, potentially unwanted applications and phishing cases related to most popular video games and cheats for these games.

In this research, we observed various types of threats that mimic useful web browser extensions, and the number of users attacked by them.

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

ToddyCat APT and WinDealer man-on-the-side attack, Spring4Shell and other vulnerabilities, ransomware trends and our in-depth analysis of the TTPs of the eight most widespread ransomware families.

Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in Q1. Also, we saw the continuation of a trend that began in spring: an increase in superlong attacks.

In early 2022, we investigated an IIS backdoor called SessionManager. It has been used against NGOs, government, military and industrial organizations in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East.

By 2021 everyone got used to pandemic limitations – industrial organization employees and IT security professionals and threat actors. If we compare the numbers from 2020 and 2021, we see that 2021 looks more stable, particularly in H2.

In Q4 2021, as expected, the number of DDoS attacks rose, while DDoS botnets weaponized a Log4Shell vulnerability. In this report, we present the main DDoS trends and statistics.

This report contains statistics and observations on vulnerabilities, phishing schemes and malware related to telehealth.

Kaspersky Safe Kids statistics on categories of websites, mobile apps and YouTube searches, plus some suggestions on what to buy children for Christmas this year.

Check out the answers to some of users’ biggest security questions about the Log4Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105).

Key statistics for 2021: miners, ransomware, trojan bankers and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

We found a suspicious binary and determined it as an IIS module, aimed at stealing credentials and enabling remote command execution from OWA. We named the malicious module ‘Owowa’,

The summary of the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j library, technical details and mitigations.

PC threat statistics for Q3 2021 contain data on miners, encrypting ransomware, financial malware, and threats to Windows, macOS and IoT.