Web threats

In the last quarter of the year, the number of both attacks and C&C servers fell sharply, while the number of extra-long attacks (over 400 hours) was the highest ever recorded in the history of our observations.

During the year, Kaspersky solutions repelled 975 491 360 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world and 273 782 113 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components.

In this report, we will discuss the numerous information security issues affecting biometric authentication systems and present the results of our own research, to provide additional information for a more objective evaluation of risks associated with using existing biometric authentication system implementations.

Kaspersky solutions blocked 989,432,403 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe; 560,025,316 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components.

When, back in 2015, push notifications were just appearing in browsers, very few people wondered how this tool would be used in the future.

Every year, Kaspersky releases an annual Black Friday alert to highlight how fraudsters may capitalize on increased levels of online shopping at this time of year when many brands are offering their customers appealing discounts.

It is very common to see cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in blogging software such as WordPress and Joomla! for injecting their malicious code. In my research, I decided to investigate this further and see what the current threat landscape looks like by researching the most visited blogs in Sweden.

Statistically, Q3 2019 differs little from Q2. In terms of geographical distribution of attacks and targets, we saw a continuation of the now familiar trend of unexpected guests appearing, only to drop out the next quarter.

One of the most popular platforms among users (and hence cybercriminals) is Steam, and we’ve been observing money-making schemes to defraud its users for quite some time. Since June, however, such attacks have become more frequent and, compared to previous attempts, far more sophisticated.

As we saw from the statistics, tech giants that collect and analyze data to show us targeted advertising are present practically everywhere in the world. And it is these companies that store the most data about people from all over the planet.

Since 2008, cyber-criminals have been creating malware to attack IoT-devices. How do we deal with that? The best option for tracking attacks, catching malware and getting an overview of attacks in this area is to use honeypots.

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.

Cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive business. According to some estimates, Bitcoin miners consume the same amount of energy as the Czech Republic.

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.

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.