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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. Continue reading Incident Response report 2018
Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe, 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics
In the first half of 2019, more than 430,000 unique users were attacked by financial threats – seven percent more than during the same period in 2018. The number of financial attacks was 10,493,792 – 93% more than in the first half of 2018. Continue reading Financial threats in H1 2019
Riltok is one of numerous families of mobile banking Trojans with standard (for such malware) functions and distribution methods. Originally intended to target the Russian audience, the banker was later adapted for the European “market. Continue reading Riltok mobile Trojan: A banker with global reach
In Q1 2019, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 243,604 users and detected attacks using miners on the computers of 1,197,066 users. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics
Zebrocy and GreyEnergy, four zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, a very old bug in WinRAR, attacks on smart devices and other events of the first quarter of 2019. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2019
BasBanke is a banking Trojan built to steal financial data such as credentials and bank card numbers, but not limited to this functionality. The propagation of this threat began during the 2018 Brazilian elections, registering over 10,000 installations to April 2019 from the official Google Play Store alone. Continue reading BasBanke: Trend-setting Brazilian banking Trojan
Due to the wide media coverage botnets activities have become largely associated with DDoS attacks. Yet this is merely the tip of the iceberg, and botnets are used widely not only to carry out DDoS attacks, but to steal various user information. Continue reading Bots and botnets in 2018
There’s nothing new in Brazilian cybercriminals trying out new ways to stay under the radar. It’s just that this time around the bad guys have started using a method that was reported in the wild years ago – the UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) additional bytes. Continue reading The return of the BOM
The presented report continues the series of Kaspersky Lab reports that provide an overview of how the financial threat landscape has evolved over the years. It covers the common phishing threats that users encounter, along with Windows-based and Android-based financial malware. Continue reading Financial Cyberthreats in 2018