The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week warned about a “dramatic” increase in so-called “CEO fraud,” e-mail scams in which the attacker spoofs a message from the boss and tricks someone at the organization into wiring funds to the fraudsters. The FBI estimates these scams have cost organizations more than $2.3 billion in […]

Gmail recently announced that they have approximately one billion active users per month.  That has made it possible for their other services like Android, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) to become widely popular. Now, Google has another purpose: to make our emails safer. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn, 1 & 1 Mail and Comcast (the leading […]

In February 2016, the Internet was shaken by an epidemic caused by the new ransomware Trojan Locky (detected by Kaspersky Lab products as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Locky). The Trojan has been actively propagating up to the present day. Kaspersky Lab products have reported attempts to infect users with the Trojan in 114 countries around the world. Analysis of […]

“Log-out” is the hardest button to click. Can anyone deny that we are hooked on social media? Many of us do not even manage to hold back at work: taking our breaks to message friends on our open Facebook pages or reading what is happening on Twitter. What at first seems an unimportant habit, can have […]

There’s something every Instagrammer wants to know: who is looking at my photos?  We live in a show-and-tell world, with I-see-I-do-I-post-mindsets, comments, and “likes”.  No one wants to disappear at fault of a #boring photo. Instagram makes it easy to play pretend, but what happens when someone else pretends to be you? In theory, social […]

This whole FBI-Apple debate has got the technology world up in a frenzy about national security vs. personal security.  Apple’s refusal to give up classified information to a government agency tells us something about the current state of our online safety, and lots of tech companies are stepping up to fight for our privacy. Recently, […]

Introduction Brazilian malware continues to evolve day by day, making it increasingly sophisticated. If you want to know how the various malicious programs work nowadays, you can jump to the corresponding section here. Meanwhile, before that, we would like to show how the techniques used by Brazilian cybercriminals have changed, becoming more advanced and increasingly […]