Long live mobile phones. Although smartphones are designed to be little more than ornaments as the years progress, what’s certain is that when we change our device for a newer model we can still get some final use out of the old one before it’s resigned to the bottom of a drawer. Apart from […]

Saint Valentine’s Day has as many lovers as haters. From those that love to spend the day with their significant other, or even celebrate singledom with friends, to those that hate being told when they should celebrate being in love. What none of us are free from, however, are the ways in which cybercriminals try […]

Kaspersky Lab researcher Vitaly Kamluk gave a talk about the latest version of the cross-platform Adwind RAT. The remote access Trojan is unique in that it’s written in JavaScript, giving this version — which is also known as Frutas, AlienSpy and JSocket — the flexibility to be used liberally in cybercrime operations as well as […]

Sergey Lozhkin, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT gave a talk about several critical vulnerabilities he found in one hospital’s IT infrastructure. From Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2016 on Tenerife, Spain. Source: Kaspersky

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 […]

Live blog from Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit on Tenerife, Spain. Stay tuned for updates, photos and news. Source: Kaspersky