We’re all sick and tired of those pesky banners, pop-ups, and annoying advertisements that try to trick us into giving out our information when trying to surf the Internet. However, if it weren’t for Google, it could actually be a whole lot worse. Just last year, the search engine monster disabled more than 780,000 advertisements […]

During the latter part of 2015, Kaspersky researchers from GReAT (Global Research and Analysis Team) got hold of the missing pieces of an intricate puzzle that points to the dawn of the first Portuguese-speaking targeted attack group, named “Poseidon.” The group’s campaigns appear to have been active since at least 2005, while the very first […]

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Download full report PDF We have become aware of unusual malware that was found in some banks in Singapore. This malware has many names – it is known as Adwind RAT (Remote Access Tool), AlienSpy, Frutas, Unrecom, Sockrat, JSocket, and jRat. It is a backdoor available for purchase, and is written entirely in Java which […]

Introduction In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cyber-criminals would adopt sophisticated tactics and techniques from APT groups for use in bank robberies. Just a few months later, in February 2015, we announced the discovery of Carbanak, a cyber-criminal gang that used custom malware and APT techniques to steal millions of […]

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Nearly everyone browses the Internet on a daily basis, be they children or adults, and although we work hard on making every day a safe day, it’s never too late to remind ourselves of the possible risks associated with browsing online. Tomorrow, February 9, is Safer Internet Day and to celebrate it we have compiled […]

Every company works with valuable information about its business what needs to be kept behind closed doors. The employees with access to this information have to be aware of its importance and their obligation is to keep it safe, but what happens is one of them leaves the company? As we have already drawn attention […]

The year in figures According to Kaspersky Lab, in 2015 The proportion of spam in email flows was 55.28%, which is 11.48 percentage points lower than in 2014. 79% of spam emails were no more than 2 KB in size. 15.2% of spam was sent from the US. 146,692,256 instances that triggered the ‘Antiphishing’ system […]