Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2016. Review of the year. Overall statistics for 2016

2016 was a tense and turbulent year in cyberspace – from the massive IoT botnets and ransomware to targeted cyberespionage attacks, financial theft, ‘hacktivism’ and more. Kaspersky Lab’s Review of the Year and Statistics provide a detailed review – you can read the Executive Summary here. Continue reading Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2016. Review of the year. Overall statistics for 2016

ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform covertly extracts encrypted government comms

‘ProjectSauron’ – a nation-state threat actor attacking state organizations with a unique set of tools for each victim, making traditional indicators of compromise almost useless. The aim of the attacks appears to be mainly cyber-espionage. Continue reading ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform covertly extracts encrypted government comms