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Overall, attacks on more than 300,000 users were detected. These are among the main findings of Kaspersky Lab’s IT threat evolution in Q1 2019 report. Mobile banking Trojans are one of the most rapidly-developing, flexible and dangerous types of malwar…
Continue ReadingThese statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 843,096,461 attacks lau…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, May 23 (UPI) — A group of suspected North Korean hackers seem to have shifted their focus to earning hard currency for the impoverished country since 2016, a global cybersecurity firm said Thursday. In the past, hacking attempts by allegedly Py…
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com UK Political Parties Fail on Email Security Ahead of ElectionsThe UK’s political parties are largely failing to protect their members from phishing attacks ahead of the European elections, a security vendor has claimed…
Continue ReadingThese statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures. According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 843,096,461 attacks la…
Continue ReadingTargeted attacks and malware campaigns Go Zebrocy. Zebrocy was first observed being used as a Sofacy backdoor in 2015. However, the collection of cases where this tool has been used mean that we consider it a subset of activity in its own right. On the…
Continue ReadingSudden surge suggests that new actors have stepped up to the plate to replace the old operators. Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) — particularly those lasting more than an hour — increased sharply in number during the first quarter of this …
Continue ReadingZebrocy continues to target government-related organizations in Central Asia, both in-country and in remote locations, as well as a new diplomatic target in the Middle East. The group also continued to innovate. Much of the spear-phishing remains thema…
Continue ReadingThe sample, which was uploaded on VirusTotal last week, is still undetected by certain antivirus software. The malware is reportedly linked with APT28, a Russian threat actor group. A malware sample uploaded by the U.S. Cyber Command last week was disc…
Continue Readingvia UK security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian A plot to kill a Labour MP and a police officer was only disrupted after an informant within the neo-Nazi group National Action blew the whistle. Robbie Mullen passed the details on to Hope Not Hate’…
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