Category Archives: Incidents

If an Office 365 Disaster Happened, What Would You Do?

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A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

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DNS Manipulation in Venezuela in regards to the Humanitarian Aid Campaign

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This website for volunteers in Venezuela appeared online on February 6th. Only a few days later, on February 11th, the day after the public announcement of the initiative, another almost identical website appeared with a very similar domain name and structure. Continue reading DNS Manipulation in Venezuela in regards to the Humanitarian Aid Campaign→

Politician’s Reactions on VIP Hack in Germany

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I recently complained about the Swiss government and our inability in Switzerland to really drive Cybersecurity forward (Federal Council not deciding again – Switzerland falling behind on Cybersecurity). It was one of the most-read blog posts I w… Continue reading Politician’s Reactions on VIP Hack in Germany→

DarkVishnya: Banks attacked through direct connection to local network

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In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to research a series of cybertheft incidents. Each attack had a common springboard: an unknown device directly connected to the company’s local network. Continue reading DarkVishnya: Banks attacked through direct connection to local network→

Does AI solve it all?

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning hold a lot of promises in security. They will help us address the problems around false positives and detecting anomalies. There is a lot of hope and a lot of promises by the vendors in that space. Microsoft… Continue reading Does AI solve it all?→

Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually

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In May, while monitoring Roaming Mantis, aka MoqHao and XLoader, we observed significant changes in their M.O. The group’s activity expanded geographically and they broadened their attack/evasion methods. Their landing pages and malicious apk files now support 27 languages covering Europe and the Middle East. Continue reading Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually→