Ducktail fashion week
The Ducktail malware, designed to hijack Facebook business and ads accounts, sends marketing professionals fake ads for jobs with major clothing manufacturers. Continue reading Ducktail fashion week
Category Archives: Browser Plugins
Satacom delivers browser extension that steals cryptocurrency
A recent campaign by Satacom downloader is delivering a cryptocurrency-stealing extension for Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Brave and Opera. Continue reading Satacom delivers browser extension that steals cryptocurrency
IT threat evolution Q3 2022
Recent APT campaigns, a sophisticated UEFI rootkit, new ransomware for Windows, Linux and ESXi, attacks on foreign and crypto-currency exchanges, and malicious packages in online code repositories. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q3 2022
Threat in your browser: what dangers innocent-looking extensions hold for users
In this research, we observed various types of threats that mimic useful web browser extensions, and the number of users attacked by them. Continue reading Threat in your browser: what dangers innocent-looking extensions hold for users
Digital Doppelgangers
From the famous Cardingplanet forum to Darknet stolen card stores – financial cybercrime schemes were not dead at all during all these years. They have evolved and become more dangerous than ever. Continue reading Digital Doppelgangers
Razy in search of cryptocurrency
Last year, we discovered malware that installs a malicious browser extension on its victim’s computer or infects an already installed extension. To do so, it disables the integrity check for installed extensions and automatic updates for the targeted browser. Kaspersky Lab products detect the malicious program as Trojan.Win32.Razy.gen. Continue reading Razy in search of cryptocurrency
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories
All too often, both rely on manipulating human psychology as a way of compromising entire systems or individual computers. Increasingly, the devices targeted also include those that we don’t consider to be computers – from children’s toys to security cameras. Here is our annual round-up of major incidents and key trends from 2018 Continue reading Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories
Google Busy Removing More Malicious Chrome Extensions from Web Store
Three malicious Chrome extensions spoofing AdBlock Plus were removed from the Chrome Web Store this week. Continue reading Google Busy Removing More Malicious Chrome Extensions from Web Store
Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware
The Facebook malware that spread last week was dissected in a collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and Detectify. We were able to get help from the involved companies and cloud services to quickly shut down parts of the attack to mitigate it as fast as possible. Continue reading Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware
‘Adult’ video for Facebook users
In April of this year, we registered some mass attacks on Facebook users in Russia. As a result, many Russian-speaking users of the social network fell victim to fraudsters. Half a year later the fraudsters have used the same tactics to attack Facebook users in Europe. Continue reading ‘Adult’ video for Facebook users